Franchise Operational Manuals

Franchise manuals

Usually as part of any franchise package the new franchisee is given the companies franchise manual. Franchise manuals are usually linked to the companies franchise contract and as such its contents should at all times remain strictly confidential and upon the franchisee deciding to either sell his or her business or just for what ever reason give up their business then the Franchise manual should always be returned to the franchisor.

The Franchise manual/bible/operational manual should be written in a straight forward and easy to digest and understand manner to such a degree that if it were to be lost then who ever was to find it would be able to pick it up read it and be able to follow it and if they were so minded start trading in that business field.

It is for this reason that the Franchise manual is tied to the franchise agreement, basically it carries all the franchise company's trade secrets and operating systyems and for obvious reasons it should not enter into other peoples hands outside of the scope of the franchise business.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

cleaning franchises

There are many many different cleaning franchises out their for prospective franchisees to choose from.

Are they all much of a muchness?

Well the answer to that question is definitely no.

There are various cleaning franchises that specialize solely in domestic cleaning, some of these you are expected to get hold of the duster and work yourself (manual work), where as others you merely manage cleaners and clients (management franchise). Usually a domestic cleaning management franchise can prove to be more profitable as overheads are much less and expansion is much easier and quicker due to low overheads and the domestic cleaning work contracted out on an agency basis.

Several types of cleaning franchises specialize solely in commercial and industrial cleaning or a combination of the two. These are usually hands on businesses or as you grow them they require you to employee staff and also run a PAYE system.

There are also many other specialist cleaning franchises such as oven cleaning, carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning etc, all of these franchises you need to actually go out and do the manual work yourself. In my mind although probably I am slightly biased I would prefer the management style franchise against the manual job type one! ;-)

Maybe if I dare suggest HERE is worth consideration!

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Best Business Practices Follow The Rules Of C

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If you are looking at implementing good business practices for your business to follow then the rules of C will help you to achieve this goal.

The Rules of C

Communication

- Always liase/Communicate with your customers/clients.

Clean

- Always keep a clean and tidy appearance.

Care

- Always take pride and care in your work.

Careful

- Always be careful on health and safety grounds while you work.

Complete

- Always complete your assignments/projects, do not leave them half completed.

Conscientious

- Always be conscientious whilst conducting your business dealings.

Courteous

- Always be polite and courteous towards your customers/clients at all times.

Confidential

- Always treat your customers/clients property and records with the strictest confidentiality.

Clients/Customers

- Always remember that without clients/customers you are unemployed!




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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Sexy Maids 4 all your household chores!

Yes sexy maids 4 all your household chores. This is a growing service within the domestic cleaning industry.

Clients usually have a choice of whether they would like their sexy maid to dress up in erotic skimpy clothing or even clean for you while totally nude!

The sexy maids usually range from being very pretty young ladies up to and including mature middle aged ladies.

They usually offer you a regular weekly service for a few hours on a set day of each week, although they do also cater for one off cleans.

Myself I often wonder what type of person would wish to use this type of service but who ever they are there certainly must be quite alot of them about as there appears to be more and more of these sexy maid cleaning services appearing. Maybe you already use your local sexy maid cleaning service or are thinking of doing so in the near future?

I would be interested in finding out what type of person would be happy to pay for this type of service.

Cleaning Local Garden Sheds Business Opportunity?

I have just spent this afternoon totally clearing out and domestically cleaning one of my garden sheds. Whilst doing my shed cleaning chores I put on my business opportunity thinking hat! I have never heard or seen advertised any where a business offering a shed cleaning, re organising or valeting service. Maybe this is a well established type of business in places but I have never come across one of these businesses around Lincolnshire where I live, maybe you know differently?

I can see a tremendous opportunity here for someone with self motivation, basic marketing skills, full driving licence, willingness to work hard and most importantly do a first class job.

To get started it might be an idea to draw up a few interior shed designs for various sized sheds, for shelving arrangments, cupboard standing areas, work benches/areas etc etc so as to give yourself a professional appearance when meeting clients and pricing up their jobs. Obviously if you get your price right and do a top class job you should find that once the word gets around about your business and standard of work you may well get plenty of referal work from satisfied customers, also you may well get repeat work as over a period of time I am sure alot of customers would instead of keeping their garden sheds clean and tidy, would let them gradually return to their original untidy mess.

Things you would require would be a vehicle to get you from A to B, a few basic tools ie:- brush, screw drivers, battery drill, dust pan and brush, probably an hammer and a few nails and screws etc.

Also you would require stationary for sending out invoices, and an accounts book for keeping your companies financial records. Don't forget also to take out a liability insurance to safe guard yourself against disaster!

You would also require a name for your company although that could be as simple as Ivor Job Shed Valeting Services, or Ida Newidea Shed Cleaning Company. or just plain I B Trading as Garden Shed Cleaners etc.

To get your business up and running you would need to market it. The best way would be to do leaflet drops at targeted areas such as large houses with large gardens, council estates with attached allotments etc. Other ways to advertise your business would be newspaper adverts in your local paper and also telephone books, You could even get yourself a little website made up and so long as you had good search engine optimism (seo) within the code and pages then enquiries would start coming your way. To give it an initial push you could use google adwords for carefully selected keywords and phrase like garden shed cleaning, summer house cleans, shed interior renovation etc etc

Can anyone else see potential here? or have I already missed the boat?




Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Website Urgent Feedback Required

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Dear all I am seeking the respected opinions and views of you people out there regarding my company website. I have placed two links below (A) is how my site appears at the moment and (B) is what I am proposing to change it to. I would be happy also to accept any suggestion on amendments also to site (B). If after a short period of time the general consensus is that (B) is best then I will change the 100 odd pages of my site to this style, if (A) is preferred I will leave it alone. I have also set up a poll for you to indicate your preference, please click on poll to cast your votes, many thanks for your anticipated feedback.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Health & Safety The Robotic Mode Whats The Cure?

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I often wonder if I am alone in the world in my belief that obviously not all, but very many work place accidents happen when people go into what I call robotic mode?

My definition of robotic mode is to give just one example from within the building industry, someone who lays bricks day in day out for arguments sake knows his job that well that he can fall mentally into a world of his own and instead of concentrating on the job in hand his mind is maybe wandering away to the pool match that coming evening or taking his girlfriend out to the Friday night disco, whilst he is in this state of mind even though his body is functioning and laying bricks perfectly his mind is far far away. In this dangerous state of mind if he is working high up on scaffolding and someone as left a trip hazard in front of him he may well not see it or realize that it is there and trip over and seriously injure himself if not tragically fall to his death! Some people may well call it daydreaming but I like to refer to it as robotic mode.

The point that I am trying to make is that when you are writing health & safety policies along with risk assessments and method statements how can you cater for the robotic mode? In my company one of my risk assessments that I have wrote asks for workers to stay alert at all times, but from my own experience this is nie on impossible for workers to do, especially when they are doing repetitive jobs. Can anyone come up with a cure? Other than spraying them with cold water every five minutes or so! We do have a responsibility for our own health & safety as well as other and across the board it is doing what is seen to be reasonably practical, but I believe many work place accidents are down to robotic mode and if a cure could be found to this problem it could save many lives and 1000s of injuries.




Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Company Logos is your Logo Recognised!

It is very important for a company that wishes to go places to have a logo that is eye catching and easily remembered. Mcdonalds M comes to my mind first as it probably will do to many people, eyecatching for its simplicity and instantly associated with obesity! lol, Other simple eye catching logos that come to mind are the the Kentucky colonel, Nike, Virgin, Coca Cola etc etc. Looking at all these large companies they have all gone for a simple design either using their company names as a simple graphic logo or instead used a simple logo design that as become an integral and recognised part of their brand as an whole.

Why are some logos better known than others?

Many large companies that do not have or need an outlet on the High Street either to work from or display their products are straight away at a disadvantage and can struggle to get their logo nationally or internationally recognised. High Street outlets like Mcdonalds, Burger King, Kentuckies etc tend to trade in very prominent places, near to busy roundabouts, busy junctions, and motorway services areas etc. I believe that this helps to get their logos to a much higher level. Also these mega companies generate the income to have vast advertising budgets and hence they can get their logo shown to millions through television advertising as well as on billboards up and down the country and worldwide. Mcdonalds like their competitors have their logos on all their food packaging and it is not unusual to see a Mcdonalds package blowing down the street or stuck out of a bin.

Other companies that are large within their own niche of the market place like Domestic Cleaning Companies, Oven Cleaning or valeting companies, Regional Developers, etc because they are usually not to be found on the High Street and rely on leaflet distribution, local newspaper advertising, word and mouth, small internet presence etc are never going to get into the same league of recognision with their company logos. This although does not mean for one minute that they are not a quality company because their logo is not as recognisable as some of those other business giants! Also some of these companies logos are only ever seen at the time of initial contact when the company was first found in the yellow pages for example. Once the client becomes a client they probably do not see the company logo again, this is not a failing it is because companies work in vastly different ways as they are offering totally different services. Also it is maybe not a regular weekly event that a client looks at obtaining certain business services it may only be once every five years or so and thus some large companies do not get the viewing to gain the recognision because the type of service that they offer is not an every day thing like food!





Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Franchise information That prospective Franchisees Ought To Consider

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Before travelling miles to an initial meeting to discuss a business opportunity with a franchisor it is useful for the prospective franchisee to consider the following important points first.

How serious are you about this franchise opportunity?

Do you match upto the franchisors franchisee job discription/profile?

Have you looked into other similiar franchise opportunities to build up more of a picture of this particular type of franchise?

Research this type of business to gain more of an understanding about it?

Check out the area where you would wish to run your business to find out what competiton already exists?

Have you got any experience that may be of benifit to you within this field of business?

Are you really cut out for this type of business?

How adaptable are you to learning?

Could you adapt your present lifestyle to run your franchise business properly?

Would your family if applicable support you in your business venture?

Would you have the self motivation to succeed with your new franchise business?

Can you afford the franchise in the first place and if not how would you raise the capital to finance it?

Could you survive for the first few months financially whilst the business got itself established?

All these questions can be answered through doing a little research and I would strongly recommend doing so before arranging an initial meeting with the franchise business owner. You may unfortunetly find out that the particular franchise that you were interested in would not be suitable for you.

This would save yourself valuable time in not having to travel potentially miles to meet up with the franchisor only to be turned down due to unsuitability.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

Franchise Advice, Questions To Ask The Franchisor

Some basic advice when looking to purchase a franchise is to check out on the franchisors previous track record with his existing franchisees. Phone around their existing franchisees and ask for their honest opinion on the following questions to help you build up a good picture of the Franchisor. This is very important as there are franchisors out there who are very unhelpful towards franchisees within their network and I believe that this is a must for any prospective franchisee to under take.

How forth coming with information was the franchisor when enquiring initially about the business?

Do you think in hindsight the franchisor was more interested in signing you up than whether you were suitable for the business?

Did the franchisor deliver what he/she promised?

Was the training the franchisor provided adequate for your business needs?

Does the franchisor offer extra training if required at their sole expense?

Does the franchisor make site trips if required?

How helpful was the franchisor in the early days in helping you set up your business?

How easy is the franchisor to get hold of?

How long does the franchisor take to get back to your phone calls/emails?

Does the franchisor have a willingness to help you out if required?

Does the franchisor still maintain good personal contact with you and the other franchisees in the network on a regular basis?

Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.