{"id":12977,"date":"2022-02-04T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:03:48","slug":"eds-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/eds-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Ed Gill worked for the award-winning Radfield Home Care national office for 4 years as Franchise Recruitment Manager, helping others establish their own Radfield Home Care franchise. In 2021 Ed made the bold decision to become a franchise partner himself. He has since opened\u00a0<strong>Radfield Home Care York, Thirsk &amp; Rydale<\/strong>, this is his story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a fortunate position where I\u2019ve had a lot of experience doing this with other people, so I could definitely do this myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Is the support of a franchise worth the cost?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYou can build a really, really successful business being part of a franchise, so for me, it was a case of as long as the net profit is suitable, even after paying the fees, then being part of a franchise network is a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Office team can help with even little things that you don\u2019t necessarily think about. The support fills in all of those gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Would you say being part of a network has benefits for your business?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, one of our first clients was a referral from our neighbouring territory. I\u2019m always referencing how we are a growing network with more than 25 locations, how we are all independent but part of the same national brand, how our nearest neighbour is over the way in Harrogate. The power of that network is really useful as it comes with a strong positive reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnow your local marketplace, and know it like the back of your hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What would you say to anyone considering starting a business in the care sector?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI genuinely believe that to succeed in this sector that you have to be a bit of a people person. Don\u2019t get me wrong, you don\u2019t have to be the type of person who walks down the street and strikes a conversation with every person they walk past, but you have to be able and willing to want to have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Gill worked for the award-winning Radfield Home Care national office for 4 years as Franchise Recruitment Manager, helping others establish their own Radfield Home Care franchise. In 2021 Ed made the bold decision to become a franchise partner himself. He has since opened\u00a0Radfield Home Care York, Thirsk &amp; Rydale, this is his story. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-radfield-home-care","category-care-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Radfield_Headshots-36.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}