{"id":23054,"date":"2024-09-06T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=23054"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:44:47","slug":"young-female-franchisee-of-the-year-launches-second-successful-business-in-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/young-female-franchisee-of-the-year-launches-second-successful-business-in-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Female Franchisee of the Year launches second successful business in travel"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

What happens when you win Young Female Franchisee of the Year and your business goes from strength to strength?<\/p>\n

In the case of Jennie Mills, a former globe-trotting professional scuba diver, she decided to launch another franchise, in a completely different field: travel.<\/p>\n

And despite being new to the industry, Jennie has taken on her new role as travel consultant like a duck to water!<\/p>\n

For nearly a decade the young entrepreneur has been at the helm of a property restoration company, a franchise called Rainbow Restoration. Alongside her team, Jennie is called in to help families whose homes have been severely damaged by floods, fires or burst pipes.<\/p>\n

Now turning over \u00a32m and employing 20 people, Jennie took the leap and launched her travel agency with The Travel Franchise in February 2024 and in just five months she took 70 holiday bookings!<\/p>\n

If she continues at this pace, she\u2019ll win the company\u2019s Money-Back Challenge where they refund your franchise fee if you earn a set amount of commission in your first 12 months!<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve got my other business to a point where I’ve got three managers in place now, so I can pinch time in the daytime to do any travel research,\u201d says Jennie.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially there was a lot to learn, particularly trying to get my head around the various travel suppliers. As for the actual booking, I tend to find that most people book holidays during the evenings and weekends anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jennie opted to invest in The Travel Franchise because of its reputation for helping train and support people completely new to travel. Not only do all new recruits have access to a huge head office support team, but each one gets a personal business development manager (BDM) as soon as they finish the company\u2019s five-day virtual training.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy BDM is always there to support me and answer my questions. There is always support at hand. Plus, I\u2019m still in close contact with the other consultants who I trained with – we\u2019re always discussing what we’re doing and what bookings we’ve made to help each other out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Jennie\u2019s former job as a diver took her all over the world – she once dived with American actor Ben Stiller and helped facilitate the daredevil antics in none other than Hollywood blockbuster Mission Impossible – there are still many places she wants to explore.<\/p>\n

And because she joined on The Travel Franchise\u2019s most popular \u2018Elite\u2019 package, she gets two free overseas mentorship retreats included in the one-off \u00a314,995 fee (plus the chance that this may be refunded!). It means that next month she\u2019s jetting off to Crete – and it won\u2019t cost her a penny.<\/p>\n

On this trip, Jennie will join over 80 other franchisees on a five-day training retreat where travel experts and entrepreneurs give invaluable tips and tricks on how to grow a travel business fast.<\/p>\n

Once she\u2019s ticked off Crete, Jennie will be off again \u2013 courtesy of head office \u2013 on a more exotic long-haul training retreat. This time she\u2019ll join a smaller group of established consultants on an \u2018Elite Experience\u2019, a trip aiming at honing consultants\u2019 entrepreneurial skills and business plans.<\/p>\n

And because Jennie signed up to the company\u2019s Cruise Division, she\u2019s already enjoyed two Seminar at Sea cruises where cruise experts train franchisees on the art of selling cruise holidays, one of the most lucrative sectors of the travel industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’d never been on a cruise when I started and I just assumed that if I’d not been on a cruise I would never be able to sell cruise holidays. But that\u2019s not the case because there’s plenty of people that have never been on a cruise and they sell lots and lots of cruises. My partner and I are now big fans and I\u2019ve gone on to make several sales, including a honeymoon to Alaska on board Princess Cruises and city break on Virgin Voyages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just five months into her new business, it seems that Jennie is making an impressive splash in the travel market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m really enjoying it. It\u2019s very different to my other job. Rather than dealing with families in crisis I\u2019m having very different conversations with my new customers. It\u2019s much nicer talking to them about lovely holidays. It\u2019s more like a hobby than a job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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