Jarrad GouldingCEO & Founder, The Local Guys · Founder & CEO at The Local Guys - Supporting over 100 franchise partners around Australian & New Zealand in the service industry.

#3 COVID's Franchise Struggles_ Overcoming Early Business Challenges

Name: #3 COVID's Franchise Struggles_ Overcoming Early Business Challenges
Uploaded: 2025-06-26T08:25:31+00:00
Duration: 5 s
Channel: Jarrad Goulding
Description: YouTube interview-style video (uploaded June 26, 2025) by Jarrad Goulding discussing a franchise's early operational challenges during the COVID-19…

26 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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YouTube interview-style video (uploaded June 26, 2025) by Jarrad Goulding discussing a franchise's early operational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The speakers describe opening local operations at the beginning of COVID, difficulty providing work to new franchisees (notably a second franchisee named Daniel), and collapse in demand for services like "test and tag."

Questions this video answers

Daniel.

June 26, 2025.

We just had to keep pushing him back because we couldn't provide him work because, you know, no one's getting test and tag done.
So tell me a little bit about the first couple of years. Did you ever feel like we were going to fail or.
Not that we were going to fail, but we actually opened the local guys right, you know, at the beginning of COVID Great time, which is fun. Yeah. And we had our second franchisee, Daniel, who was really, really keen to come on board, and we just had to keep pushing him back because we couldn't provide him work because, you know, no one's getting test and tag done. So that was definitely a hard time right at the beginning.