Laura is the Aberdeen franchisee for Diamond Home Support and this is what she thinks about the franchise opportunity:

” I had researched many franchise opportunities before deciding on Diamond Home Support.  I wanted to work for myself and needed something to fit around my young family and part-time employment.

The simple business model and costs involved were perfect for me, and after speaking with Andrew I felt comfortable that I could build this in to a successful business.

The start-up and management costs are better and fairer than any other franchise that I looked at, so most of the money you make goes in your pocket!

It was hard work at the beginning, but after a couple of months it started to feel routine, although you never stop learning!  Andrew’s help and support is there whenever you need it, and has been invaluable in helping me at times.

I am so glad I went ahead, and know that I can count on the support, experience and encouragement of Andrew, as well as all the other franchise owners.  I certainly know I made the right choice.”

If you are interested in joining the Diamond Home Support cleaning franchise take a look here: www.diamondhomesupport.com/cleaningfranchise

There is no better time of the year to start thinking about a new business than at the very start! It is so often the time of year when we reappraise where we are, what we are doing, and what we want to do and achieve in the year ahead.

If you have been recently thinking about starting a business, but haven’t got round to it yet, maybe now is the time to put those plans into action.

Franchising is a great way to start a business because a lot of the work has already been done for you. You can avoid the mistakes by learning from others who have already walked the same path.

If you are considering a franchise then it is worth looking at the cleaning sector as there is a real ready-made demand. Cleaning franchises are amongst the most popular form of franchised business and that is no accident. It’s because they work!

If you’re serious about making this year the year it happens for you, why not take a look at the Diamond Home Support cleaning franchise?

New business venture for Cambridge entrepreneur

Cleaners in Cambridge and Ely

Diamond Home Support Cambridge is run by Neil, offering busy professionals, families and the elderly professional cleaning services throughout the Cambridgeshire area.

Covering domestic cleaning, end of tenancy cleans and one-off cleans, Diamond Home Support Cambridge offers high quality cleaning and assisted help services.

All our cleaners are vetted and insured, and we strive to remain flexible to suit our client’s needs.

The Cambridge franchise was first formed in early 2015 and since then we have built up a growing number of clients, spanning Cambridge city centre, Cambourne, Ely and Trumpington.

Although the business is in its early stages, we aim to grow our client and cleaner database through networking, personal recommendations and canvassing (Neil can often be seen canvassing around the streets of Cambridge!).

Already we have had some positive feedback from our clients and we hope to build on this and continue to deliver high-quality cleaning services throughout Cambridge and Ely.

Neil runs the Cambridge and Ely office of Diamond Home Support. If you are looking for a cleaner in Cambridge or a cleaner in Ely why not check them out.

 If you are interested in running your own cleaning franchise why not take a look at Diamond Home Support.

We are a local business, providing cleaning and Home Assist Services. We were established in 2012 and we cover Norwich, Broadland, Gt. Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney, and all surrounding areas,using cleaners who are fully vetted and insured.

We have many satisfied customers, and expanded the business into Gt. Yarmouth and the Lowestoft and Waveney areas at the end of Summer 2014.

Offering a personal service we have found that the clients choose us as they like having a friendly face when they have their visits and a cheery person at the end of a phone. We have personal recommendations, along with cleaners telling their friends to apply to work for us as they feel they are supported in everyway as much as they support the clients.

I look forward to continuing the business and seeing it grow and expand year on year.

Connie operates a Diamond Home Support cleaning franchise business in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.

Diamond Home Support Callington and Diamond Home Support Tavistock are two flourishing domestic cleaning franchises covering the West Devon and South East Cornwall areas.  Using fully insured and vetted cleaners we have built the business since 2012 and now have many satisfied clients and currently have a team of 25 cleaners servicing them at very competitive rates.

Since establishing the franchise we have found that because the business is so customer focused but also requires close relationships with our cleaners that both cleaners and clients can become friends and it is very satisfying that our service is so appreciated.  A lot of our work now comes from personal recommendations and it is nice that cleaners are also recommending us to their friends as a business they enjoy working with.

Going forward we would like to develop the business further over several more years and our only regret is that we did not take on the franchise many years ago.

Astrid and Ian run both the Callington and Tavistock offices of Diamond Home Support. If you are looking for a cleaner in Callington or a cleaner in Tavistock why not check them out. If you are interested in running your own cleaning franchise why not take a look at Diamond Home Support.

There’s no feeling like it in the world!

To wake up on a Monday morning and to know that YOU are in control. You can choose when to start work. You can choose when to finish. You can choose to go for a walk for half an hour whenever you want.

Complete control over your own destiny.

Not answerable to anyone.

Many dream of this. Some go ahead and do it. Others wish they had.

It seems that more and more people though are taking the plunge. With record levels of self employment in the UK. Now, it seems, IS the time to start your own business.

But where to start? What avenue to go down? What business to pursue? What to put your heart and soul into, because to make it work you surely will have to.

Franchising is a good starting point because much of the set-up work has been done for you. You get to benefit from the experience and support of others who have done it before and that means you are less likely to make mistakes. It offers a lower risk entry into business.

Diamond Home Support is one such business you might want to consider. It’s a cleaning management franchise and offers cleaning, home help services and gardening to clients in many parts of the UK.

In addition to that Diamond Home Support is a low cost entry level franchise which further reduces your risk.

A new year is definitely a time to reappraise where we are, what we are doing, and what we want to do and achieve in the year ahead.

If you have been thinking of starting your own business, but haven’t yet done it, it is this time of year when you will probably most acutely feel the fact it hasn’t happened yet. Maybe you have had the opportunities in the last year, but haven’t quite had the confidence to do it. Maybe the opportunities didn’t come along and you are still waiting.

It’s also the time of year when, as a budding entrepreneur, you will also most acutely feel the need to start that business soon … perhaps very soon! Make it this year the year when you really make the effort to make it happen. Then this time next year you will be reviewing the year knowing you finally made the move and … hopefully how it paid off.

Many of the obstacles surrounding starting a business can be overcome in some way. The main one that presents the biggest challenge is in your mind. The confidence! The confidence to actually take that first real step.

That confidence does not come in a bottle or in a package. It comes from within you.

If you’re serious about making this year the year it happens for you, why not take a look at the Diamond Home Support cleaning franchise?

The domestic cleaning industry has seen quite a shift over the last 2 decades. Gone is the notion that having a cleaner is a luxury. No, clients now view the service as a ‘need’. When they talk to us about it they describe it as a ‘need’. They rarely say ‘I want a cleaner’. It’s normally ‘I need a cleaner’.

That need comes from either not having enough time or simply not being able to physically clean themselves. At Diamond Home Support our clients range from professional people who do not have time in their busy working week; to families who want to get time back at the weekends from doing all the chores; to the elderly who can no longer do the things they once were able to. All genuinely describe their ‘need’ for a cleaner rather than simply a desire.

So the shift away from luxury to necessity means that the demand has also increased. The need for domestic cleaners it seems is bigger than ever before.

We run a cleaning franchise which covers around 40% of the UK at the time of writing. We regularly get calls from areas we do not cover looking for service – if only we had franchisees in those areas! If you are interested why not take a look at what we offer. Our cleaning franchise package is very affordable and the business can be run from home. Take a look at www.diaomondhomesupport.com/cleaningfranchise

Andrew Watton

Within any franchise network the franchisor will need to take a cut of what the franchisees generate in terms of business. If they didn’t they wouldn’t exist. Product based franchises will often wrap this up with the cost of the products. So the franchisor effectively earns through sales of products.

In service based franchises such as a cleaning franchise the franchisor will very often take a percentage of the franchisees turnover. However, there are disadvantages to this approach. It effectively means the more successful a franchisee is the more money a franchisor will take from them – even though the cost of servicing that franchisee is likely to remain unchanged. This situation sometimes creates resentment as experienced franchisees continue to pay more and more to their franchisor even though they need less support from them.

The Diamond Home Support cleaning franchise offers an alternative approach. We fix our monthly fees to our franchisees. The cost of servicing them stays pretty much constant so why should we differentiate between them based on their income? When you go and buy your fish and chips on a Friday evening the chippy doesn’t ask you how much money is in your purse or wallet before deciding how much he is going to charge you does he?

Our fixed charge per month means that our franchisees know exactly where they stand and have a predictable overhead that will not come as a surprise to them each month. In addition to it being fixed it also happens to be what we consider to be very low and I’m not aware of many franchise businesses that offer such a low fixed monthly fee regardless of sector.

If you want to find out more about our cleaning franchise request our prospectus and see what we can do for you.

by Andrew Watton
Updated: 31 July 2014

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