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It seems to me that the main benefit of franchising out your business is to avoid VAT. You still have all off the back office functions. Scheduling, sales, marketing, accounts etc. The only one you avoid is vehicles. Same stress for less money as I saw it. 

it’s about speed of growth. We’ve gone from 300 customers to nearly 3,000 in 3 years. I’m quite certain I’d have picked up 180 this year with zero effort or spend but my target was 800-900 which was achieved but wouldn’t have been without spending money.    I’ve had a pretty clear plan and...

True. When I was around a year in I met a local windy who had been going a few years longer than me. He asked how many customers I had. I said about 300 and he said “wow, I’ve been going 5 years and I’ve only got 250, how have you done it?”. I replied “leaflets”. He said “leaflets don’t work...

We added 900 customers this year, so that’s about £50 per customer. That’s competitive with any other method of acquiring customers. Our average clean price is £27 so less than two cleans. So in year one with no extra services (one in three have gutters, fsg, con roof or pressure washing) that’s...

We only had 5 vans at the beginning of the year. We’ve added a van a year for 3 years. Revenue grown by 30% a year. It’s all part of a plan for full retirement at about 9/10 vans. Today I stepped back from customer contact and day to day running things. 

6 vans.  That’s because it works. We picked up 900 customers this year.

I feel your pain. Spent £50k on advertising this year and when I finally get all the work in and the money spent I lose 30 man days for holiday in Ssptember and now my flakiest worker twisted his angle yesterday and is off. Two weeks behind and desperate to see income at the full 6 van level. ...

Yes but you’re a few thousand pounds lighter per system ?

We’ve just moved over to a fleet policy. When we did so we had to provide an engineer’s report for each van about the fitted tank. All were built and most fitted by Pure Freedom and were able to say crash tested. We just got PF to write a letter detailing each em invoice and that did. Might be a...

Why should he get a move on? He’s faster than you. 12 minutes means 5 an hour and he’s packing up and unpacking also. Take that out and he’d be doing 6 an hour while you’re doing 5. 

My fastest guy can do a 3 bed semi in 12 minutes from pulling up to driving away. He’s amazingly efficient and gets very few complaints. None of the others get within 2 minutes.    Anyway, if you’re two men to a van you should go one man one van and lose a member of staff. Except on very...

I’m less than convinced to be honest. ?

He said nearly all. Maybe they only do 60 a day? 

4000 customers 4 weekly with 3 vans? So each van does 66 houses a day? ?

I never understand this andAn always suspicious of these sorts of claims.  We have nearly 3,000 customers and 6 vans. We only get work when we look for it. Maybe different where you are? 

It’s not difficult to get a reasonable income for a part timer. Try getting a second van full though. So 8 weekly probably 1,100 customers. Not so easy. 

If you put exactly the same effort in the winter that you put in during the summer I’d be surprised if you even picked up 25% of what you would in the summer months. 

Might be family members and food deliveries are allowed. I suspect he’s fine.

Evidence?

InScotland? Pull the other one...