An opportunity for the Medway Handyman...

[mike]

...to give a big chunk of your profits away:

could they offer that would make a franchise a better option than setting up on your own??

[Bob Eager]

I've always wondered, with a name like that, if the franchisees are expected to do more than just repairs and maintenence...

[David WE Roberts]

Bloody sexist Aussies! Hire a over here, mate!

[tim....]

National marketing of the brand.

The question is does that make any difference in this market?

OTOH

"Hubbies have their own exclusive territory with an average of 7,500 households plus all the commercial and retail outlets".

How can anyone make a business in an area of 7,500 households. Dave's must be 20 times that size.

tim

[Weatherlawyer]

1 handyman per 150,000 households?

It must be his personality.

[dennis]

• a lot of hubbies?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager saying something like:

Confessions of a Decking Guy?

[The Medway Handyman]

Population of Medway is 253,500, at roughly 2.4 persons per household thats

106,000 households approx.

I'm not the only one operating in the area, although I was the first operating a professional type service on par with the franchises.

I'm of course limited by being a one man band. If I wanted to employ people & resister for VAT I could easily treble the turnover.

[Tim Watts]

Bob Eager wibbled on Wednesday 30 June 2010 18:01

Are you expected to turn up to fix the tap:

a) sporting a Paul Morrow from Space 1999 proper moustache;

b) wearing leather shorts;

c) not actually fix the tap?

[dom]

People have been sent to the gulags for less.

[george [dicegeorge]]

They say: All of our handymen are backed by a corporate office, dedicated to providing further support to the growing network of Hubby?s.

Maybe they studied music and grocery cos that apostrophe aint right and thats a corporate website homepage not an email!

[g]

[The Medway Handyman]

Hmmmm. The ME2 postcode has nearly twice that amount of households.

[John Rumm]

Not sure it works quite as intended here anyway... Most women here probably associate "hubby" with "no good at DIY, and leaves jobs half done" anyway (present company excepted of course!)

[The Medway Handyman]

To be fair, I went through a huge learning curve in the first 2 or 3 years. Still learning, but not as bad.

I could now tell someone how to avoid a lot of problems, but would it be worth the fee or the %?

I might write the book one day.

[Adrian]

"The Medway Handyman" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Which isn't really what the franchise is about - there's no way they're giving much in the five-day training course.

What they're _really_ selling in the franchise is a slice of the brand and the marketing that goes along with it.

[Adrian C]

To me that looks very similar to the way some SOHO IT support outfits are currently working, and their 'staff wanted' adverts placed via the directgov's job centre don't exactly entice my interest.

e.g.

"This is a self employed vacancy. Must have experience in software, hardware, fault finding and a minimum A plus qualification. Must have full driving licence, own transport and mobile phone. Duties include fault finding, the repair and replacement of parts and any other associated tasks. Could applicants state availability when applying. The company has given an assurance that this vacancy enables workers to achieve a wage equivalent to the National Minimum Wage rate. Self-employed people are responsible for paying their own National Insurance contributions and Tax. "

So if ye are so qualified what's the point of offering yourself for these pimps, or going it alone?

Stick a business profile up on facebook/linkin, or a card in a phone box and ye will be run off your feet with new leads, as each unstable PC and user eventually succumbs to the inevitable windows inspired tradegy...

[geoff]

In message , mike writes

Free shag with every order

wait a minute, where's Adam ?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian C saying something like:

XP and system restore killed off a large proportion of that market.

[Spamlet]

Your site implies there are more than one of you. ;-) S

[tim....]

I thought you covered Maidstone as well

Obviously, but that "other" competition wouldn't go away if you were restricted by contract to a small part of the local area.

tim