{"id":3195,"date":"2019-10-11T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2019-10-11T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:00:22","slug":"turning-a-dream-into-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/turning-a-dream-into-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a Dream Into Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A few months ago Michael Finn could only dream of being his own boss and owning a business. In the past two weeks, the dream has become reality.<\/h3>\n

Having spent a week in the classroom, with the My Window Cleaner Director’s and having a pre-launch marketing campaign executed by the team, Michael is now up and running and providing service to his first customers.<\/p>\n

\"myI also spent time with Michael, on his first three days of trading, to make sure everything went smoothly; which of course it did.<\/p>\n

We flew out to Spain, to meet Karen and Dave on the Saturday morning. After a welcoming lunch, it was straight into the classroom, with laptops open and a PowerPoint presentation on our history, the Operations Manual and to go through the agenda, to get the week started.<\/p>\n

The course was hosted at the Marbella Golf & Country Club, with great views of the Mediterranean & an equally impressive classroom facility. Each day we started at 9am prompt, only stopping for lunch and continuing through to around 6pm, before a team dinner. There is much to learn; going into detail on our powerful and user friendly IT system and sales & marketing, were subject areas that we concentrated most on.<\/p>\n

The five-day course is great fun, as well as a huge learning curve for any franchise partner. Michael rose to the occasion, picking up subject areas very quickly and with great enthusiasm and gusto.<\/p>\n

The pre-training pack and presentations that we send through prior to the week really help a franchise partner to settle in and they already have a good understanding of how to operate their My Window Cleaner franchise.<\/p>\n

After five great days and a short flight home, Michael had a few days to turn the theory into practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"myThe pre-launch campaign went very well (& continues to do so, with new customers coming in every day) & our Customer Care Team started to fill Michael’s diary.<\/p>\n

So, I joined Michael on Monday this week, in his territory of Willesden and Brondesbury Park. Unusually, the first customer was a commercial customer, not a residential one. A car showroom owner that required his windows to be cleaned, inside and out, every two weeks. We took our time and delivered a \u201csuperb service\u201d (the customers words, not ours!!) & turned that one-off job, into a two weekly service, at \u00a3140 a time.<\/p>\n

And then onto the residential customers, for the next three days, most wanting an outside and inside clean, as well as their gutters being checked; yes, autumn is on its way. Everything went to plan and Michael achieved a 100% re-booking of regular work.
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We did have time to complete some leafleting ourselves, as well as some canvassing, which picked up six new customers. The concern of existing competition never materializes; ask any of our franchise partners!<\/p>\n

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Michael’s business plan shows a planned turnover of \u00a3900 in month one. This, as well as his average customer spend, will be easily achieved & he is ahead of target already. With future planned meetings and regular communication from the MWC team, Michael is well on his way and not looking back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago Michael Finn could only dream of being his own boss and owning a business. In the past two weeks, the dream has become reality. Having spent a week in the classroom, with the My Window Cleaner Director’s and having a pre-launch marketing campaign executed by the team, Michael is now up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleaning-franchises","category-my-window-cleaner"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/my-window.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}