{"id":18730,"date":"2023-05-31T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=18730"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:57:39","slug":"melanie-jose-martinez-and-alan-white-team-members-to-franchisees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/melanie-jose-martinez-and-alan-white-team-members-to-franchisees\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie &#038; Jose Martinez and Alan White &#8211; Team Members to Franchisees"},"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>As long-term employees of the FASTSIGNS Crawley centre, (and great friends outside of work) when the previous owner of the centre decided to activate his exit plan from the business in 2018, we decided that collectively, we wanted to become franchisees.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d all worked in the centre for over 20 years, Alan worked as lead designer, Jose managed production and I (Mel) managed sales so we already knew our stuff, and we had experienced the career longevity that the signage industry offered, but being the owner of a centre always felt like it didn\u2019t quite fit our life plan. The security that \u2018employment\u2019 provided was attractive but when the chance to buy the centre came up, we just knew that we couldn\u2019t miss the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s been liberating! We love being owners, we love being in control of our business and working in it, as well on it. The head office support team helped us move our mindsets from employees to owners and helped make sure that we have robust marketing activity, business planning and strategies in place to help us keep achieving.<\/p>\n<p>Even through 2020 and 2021 and all of the external challenges that have been presented, we\u2019ve grown our business by over 30% &#8211; we\u2019ve taken on new team members and we\u2019re extremely excited for the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long-term employees of the FASTSIGNS Crawley centre, (and great friends outside of work) when the previous owner of the centre decided to activate his exit plan from the business in 2018, we decided that collectively, we wanted to become franchisees. We\u2019d all worked in the centre for over 20 years, Alan worked as lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fastsigns","category-signs-and-printing-franchise"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Picture1-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730","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=18730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}