{"id":14612,"date":"2022-05-24T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2022-05-24T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T08:36:12","slug":"meet-the-franchisee-gina-glendinning-of-merry-maids-wakefield-and-leeds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/meet-the-franchisee-gina-glendinning-of-merry-maids-wakefield-and-leeds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Franchisee: Gina Glendinning of Merry Maids Wakefield and Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

We sat down with Gina Glendinning of Merry Maids Wakefield and Leeds to talk about her experience as a Merry Maids business owner.<\/p>\n

Before starting her Merry Maids business in 2018, Gina was a self-described \u2018career banker\u2019, working in many different roles for HSBC \u2013 over the span of 32 years. One day, Gina says she reached a point where she realised that she needed to get her work-life balance in check, so she started to look around at options for owning her own business.<\/p>\n

She decided upon Merry Maids due to her banking background, as she knew she wanted \u201csecurity and assurance in a business venture.\u201d Upon finding Merry Maids, Gina knew that she had the capability of managing staff, but \u201ccouldn\u2019t clean to save [her] life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, she felt that Merry Maids was the right fit for her due to the \u201cgood, stable management structure.\u201d Along with the useful support of the franchise network \u2013 which she felt was both helpful and personable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t overbearing,\u201d she says. \u201cThey give you advice, but without impeding on what you want to do as a business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, she says the best part about owning a Merry Maids business is the variety and community in every aspect of the job \u2013 be it the network or the customers, and being able to go above and beyond to help the people that need it most.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou meet so many varied people. When you go to look at their homes and assess what their needs are: from the little old ladies and little old men who just need you there once a week, to maybe hold their hand, make them a sandwich, make them a drink, and do some cleaning for them. To the massive properties, we have on our books where we go in and we spend sometimes eight hours cleaning to make it right for the clients on a regular basis. It\u2019s so varied, it\u2019s so different. It\u2019s just a pleasure to meet these people.\u201d<\/p>\n

If, like Gina, you would like to be supported by an expansive franchise network to run your own business that allows you to meet and offer support to a variety of different people, get in touch with our franchise sales team today by filling out a contact form to enquire about available territories near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sat down with Gina Glendinning of Merry Maids Wakefield and Leeds to talk about her experience as a Merry Maids business owner. Before starting her Merry Maids business in 2018, Gina was a self-described \u2018career banker\u2019, working in many different roles for HSBC \u2013 over the span of 32 years. One day, Gina says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleaning-franchises","category-merry-maids"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gina-glendinning.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","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=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}