{"id":20025,"date":"2023-10-04T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:46:27","slug":"ewif-ami-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/ewif-ami-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"EWIF – Ami Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

As part of The Travel Franchise\u2019s series to support the work of Encouraging Women into Franchising, the Uk\u2019s fastest-growing travel franchise tells the story of successful women building businesses on their own terms.<\/p>\n

Staffordshire mum-of-two Ami Wood made herself a New Year\u2019s Resolution that she was going to start a side hustle as a bit of a hobby, working one day a week.<\/p>\n

That side hustle has turned into a full-time job and Ami has hit the \u00a31.5million in sales mark. After five days of training as a home working travel agent with The Travel Franchise, Ami wasted no time in getting down to business, but was astonished by the results.<\/p>\n

She made a staggering \u00a351,000 of sales in her first week, including \u00a317,000 worth of bookings in just one day.<\/p>\n

Ami came across The Travel Franchise website while researching home working opportunities. She was tempted by its promise to pay back initial set-up franchise for hitting sales targets within a set time. The Travel Franchise\u2019 Unique Money Back Challenge focused her efforts and gave her something solid to work towards. Ami said: \u201cBeing honest, I was sceptical that the money-back challenge was achievable, but it\u2019s incredibly motivating. I did it and won my franchise fee back, which means I started my business for free.\u201d<\/p>\n

It offers a choice of three start-up packages: the Lite Package which charges \u00a32,995 plus VAT and \u00a3299 a month; its Elite Package charges \u00a314,995 plus \u00a399 a month; and its Entrepreneur Package charges \u00a329,995 plus \u00a399 per user.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team is very supportive and encouraging. I enjoyed the training process. You have 1-2-1 management to help guide you throughout. This job feels like a hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the perks of being a travel consultant Ami has also gone on lots of free or discounted holidays including a ski trip to Colorado, a cruise on the world’s newest liner, a Virgin Voyage\u2019s luxury cruise and a holiday to Turkey.<\/p>\n

The work fits around working for her husband\u2019s uPVC business, as well as family life, household jobs and overseas trips. \u201cI\u2019ve made bookings sat on my sun lounger in Jamaica, sipping a cocktail. Life doesn\u2019t get better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her advice for others considering a side hustle? \u201cJust do it. Commit to it. If you have a passion and have been thinking about making the leap for a long time as I did, just go for it else you will never know. It might just be the best thing you ever did, which is what happened to me.”<\/p>\n

The Travel Franchise is\u00a0 supporting the work of industry organisation Encouraging Women Into Franchising (EWIF) by sharing a series of stories from a number of women to show how its possible to build highly successful full- and part-time businesses around other jobs or busy family lives.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

EWIF is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers, providing advice and guidance to women looking for a route into the franchise industry. Its aim is to encourage women to consider buying a franchise, to encourage businesswomen to franchise their existing operations and to help franchisors attract more women to their networks.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information visit our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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