{"id":14321,"date":"2022-05-03T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2022-04-29T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:40:54","slug":"pandemic-proof-cleaning-is-a-safe-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/pandemic-proof-cleaning-is-a-safe-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic-proof: Cleaning Is A Safe Business"},"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>In 2013, I was a frontline Police Officer. After 15 years of service, and continuous budget cuts resulting in more dangerous working conditions, I felt demotivated. I was working so hard &#8211; for little or no recognition. I knew that if I worked as hard for myself, I could be successful.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at a number of franchise opportunities before speaking to Freddie Rayner, Managing Director of Time For You. As soon as we met, I knew it was the right opportunity. Cleaning is never going to go out of fashion!<\/p>\n<p>To start with, my partner and I worked alongside our full time jobs. It was hard work &#8211; but nothing good comes easily! Plus we wanted a big business, we didn&#8217;t want to &#8216;play&#8217; at it.<\/p>\n<p>By 2019, we reached the staggering statistic of cleaning more than 1,000 homes every single week, with a large office team taking care of the day-to-day running! We were so proud of this achievement, and felt like &#8216;real business people&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Since the Covid-19 pandemic, we have lost a number of clients. We are back to around 500 clients and are pushing to get back to 1,000 and beyond. Business is mindset: if you think you can, you will. Having seen many local businesses close during the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, cleaning is one of the safest industries you can be in.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Barrett \u2022 Time For You Portsmouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, I was a frontline Police Officer. After 15 years of service, and continuous budget cuts resulting in more dangerous working conditions, I felt demotivated. I was working so hard &#8211; for little or no recognition. I knew that if I worked as hard for myself, I could be successful. I looked at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleaning-franchises","category-time-for-you"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/portsmouth.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}