This is a first-person testimonial from Mitch B., a CertaPro franchisee for 14 years, endorsing the franchise experience. He describes the franchisor’s support (hiring, estimating, job-site management, brand marketing, peer mentoring) and advises prospective franchisees to be prepared to work very hard—doubling expected effort—for success.
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So I've been a Certapro franchisee now for 14 years. If I were to start all over again, I'd be a certapro franchisee again. Absolutely. It has been a tremendous experience with a great team. When you buy a franchise, you buy a playbook, and you buy a business in a box, so to speak. And if you follow the formula and you follow the strategy and you follow the business model, you will find success. The support we get from the franchisor is how to hire the right painters, how to run the job site, how to estimate jobs properly. They have an entire team of brand marketers out there that are creating media, all of which we could use in our local market. But not only are they creating the actual media, they're creating and helping with plans and programs for those that media to be used effectively. The franchisor actually works to get some of the most successful franchisees together, to operate as each other's board of directors, and to have that opportunity to speak with these guys and have them hold me accountable to goals that I talk about has really helped excel my business, I think, faster than it ever would have accelerated without that. So I'm very thankful for that concept. Absolutely. I would hope everybody could have the same experience I have in being a certapro franchise owner. I do a tremendous amount of validation calls with prospective franchisees, and during those calls, at the end of the call, I typically get a question, something like, hey, did. Did I forget to ask you something, or is there anything else you want to tell me? And I always leave a prospective franchisee with the same answer, and that is be willing to make that effort, be willing to work harder than you've ever worked in your life. And whatever amount of time you might think you were going to put into making this business successful, double it. Because then you're kind of on the right track to thinking what it's going to take to be successful.
