Brian left a 17-year job to join The Local Guys Test and Tag franchise, drawn by personal contact with management, supplied leads, and a $50,000 turnover guarantee that larger competitors don't offer. Georgia, a franchise consultant, explains how head office supports new partners with leads and business lists.
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A $50,000 guarantee for turnover for that year.
17 years.
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I was looking into franchises when I wanted to get out of my old job and it showed some of the other companies, it showed the local guys, testing tag and all that kind of stuff. A lot of the other franchises, big, big business franchise, a lot, massive ones. And I felt a family owned franchise would be a bit more personal to me. I didn't want to answer to someone that I will never probably see, like giving Georgia a call and she's sort of used to me ringing up now and going, oh, it's you again. Brian.
Hi, I'm Georgia, I work here at the local Guys. I'm the franchise consultant. So any new franchise partners that are looking into purchasing a franchise with us, I'll be their first point of contact and carry them through the process of starting their own business with us.
She's pretty well straight onto whatever problem I've got sorts it for me straight away and then it's just done and I don't have to deal with it anymore. So Jarrod was actually from Gawler, which is my region as well. So that was good thing, having almost.
Nothing to start off with. But here at the head office we supply leads for the clients and we also supply a list of businesses.
I had a 17 year permanent position with a guaranteed wage every week that's not there anymore and that's my biggest fear is not having that regular income. I've still got a mortgage to pay, I've still got bills to pay, now I've actually got more because I've got a repayment. All of those things come into it and that's my biggest fear is, is I've got to succeed, I must succeed and, and I'm going to make myself succeed.
The effort that you put in is the reward that you're going to get out of the business. Essentially at the end of the day.
If you can ring up someone and they get an immediate response back to you, you know it's legit, you know, they're not hiding anything or anything like that. So that attracted me quite a lot to the management team in the local guys that they could just answer questions on the spot. And it's always a trust thing with me. If people hesitate on answering you, that's shy away. So yeah, that's where the trust relationship comes from is that immediacy in answering all questions. If something goes wrong or I don't know, something or I need to ring someone, I've got the team back here that I can ring up, get in touch with, they can guide me through.
Starting a franchise is different to starting your own business from the ground up.
Coming on board with the franchise and security was the fact that the local guys did have a $50,000 guarantee for your turnover for that year. So that's probably not a great amount. But it gives me the confidence that if they're willing to guarantee you $50,000, then they know you're going to get more work than that because they wouldn't be giving it to you for jam. So that sort of helps kick it along and put it into gear for me.
