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Articles for Home Improvement Franchises
Overcoming Objections Easily & Quickly
Being a successful salesperson isn't a talent that you are born with. Some people may have the right instincts and personality traits to potentially be good salespeople, but success still depends on learning and putting into practice the right selling techniques.
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Six Business Presentation Tips That Your Customers Will Love
In business, like in life, presentation is important. Your customers'
perception of your sales staff, your back-office staff, and your brand help to mould how they perceive your business and their likelihood of doing business with you. Here are ten tips that you can follow which will entice your customers to sign on the dotted line.
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THE BFA GIVES MARLA CUSTOM BLINDS AN EARLY CHRISTMAS SURPRISE
Mince Pies and Sherry All Round for Blind Fitting Franchise Awarded Provisional bfa Membership
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Twelve Days of Christmas...
We can't promise leaping lords, or a game bird stuck in a fruit tree. But here are 12 festive reasons why a Dream Doors franchise should be on your Christmas shopping list - and at the top of your New Year's resolutions!
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The Benefits and Obstacles When Working From Home
The Technological Revolution
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Maximise profits from property to realise a ‘best in class’ business opportunity
The concept that ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ is the most efficient route to success has been proven time and again, so it’s no surprise that franchising, as a sector, has continued to flourish, even in these difficult times.
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Molly Maid 25th Anniversary Convention
MOLLY MAID UK just returned from their annual National Convention with an extra spring in their step, following a positive and inspirational three days of talks and workshops.
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Funding a Franchise Purchase
After examining all your business options you have finally decided to buy a franchise. How are you going to raise money to secure your territory?
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Buy a Franchise and Become Motivated Again
Buying a Franchise is a fantastic way to get yourself out of the humdrum daily toil of your working life and become independent and much more motivated. Today, with the economy as it is, there can be no doubt at all that there is no longer such a thing as job security, and just turning up to work each day can feel a little like a gamble - will you still have a job, or will the company have gone under, or slimmed down, with the loss of your job?
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THREE TIMES REDUNDANT! FRANCHISING ONLY WAY OUT FOR EX-SALES MANAGER
Blazes’ Home-Based Central Heating changes fortunes for new Bolton & Bury franchisee, David Garrett.
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FIRST COME FIRST SERVED FOR FIVE LUCKY FOUNDATION FRANCHISEES
Sub £10k franchise fee is set to encourage investment as Marla Custom Blinds attends its first franchise exhibition at the Birmingham NEC
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Franchise Discovery Days
A year in busines....200K turnover....3rd van on the road....and aiming for 350k turnover this year!!
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New British Blinds website launches!
British Blinds is delighted to announce the launch of its updated website
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Scratch Repair Network gets biggest ever contract
The owner of a successful glass repair business in
Wellington is celebrating the start of their biggest
ever contract.
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Deception, Exaggeration and Invention
Insurers are fighting back in the war against fraud with the help of Spettro’s buildings insurance assessment and repair specialists. With the cost of insurance fraud now estimated to be £5.2 million every day, according to a report* published this month by the Association of British Insurers (ABI), insurers are detecting more of the fraud being committed. Insurance fraud now adds, on average, an extra £44 a year to every household’s general insurance costs.
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Spettro Acts Against Insurance Fraudsters
Insurance fraudsters are costing honest insurance customers over £1.6bn a year and Spettro are working with insurers to act against fraudulent claims with the latest technology.
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Spettro franchisees enjoy their first annual seminar
Central Birmingham was the location for Spettro’s first ever annual franchisee seminar this January, organised due to the unexpected growth of the franchise network in the last year. With over 30 years in the industry and well-established relationships with all major insurers, Spettro has proven itself to be extremely popular for any would-be franchise owner to quickly establish and grow a management franchise.
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Dream Doors Would Rather Charge More Than Give Less in a Bold Statement of Intent
In a determined move, and opposing the traditional trends of recessionary times, the UK’Sleading kitchen facelift franchise, Dream Doors, has chosen to increase its franchise fee by £4,000. In contrast to businesses that ‘reduce to produce’, the directors at Dream Doors feel the most effective way to see the downturn through is to continue proactive marketing on behalf of their franchisees, giving them even more start-up support
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Fatal Branding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
In launching a new business, branding can often be an aspect given far less attention than it really deserves, and this can cause a number of problems and issues in the future.
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How Review Sites Can Make Or Break a Business
Customer service is not given the attention it should be given. If there is one aspect of more importance to your business than any other, it is this.
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Using Offline Advertising to Promote Your Business
When it comes to your online business, how much time do you give offline advertising?
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Shopping Tricks of the Online Retail Trade
Not that many years ago the words retail and shopping would tend to conjure up images of crowded high streets, busy shops stuffed full of shoppers frantically squeezing past each other towards the sale items at the back, long queues at the checkout and weary staff trying to keep a smile on their faces.
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Online Advertising - Boost Your Business Online
The concept of online advertising is one that will be very important for any small internet business to consider very carefully.
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Beat Redundancy With a Franchise
Many people can often find the day to day routine of office life tiresome and somewhat repetitive. It becomes a difficult task to remain motivated and look forward to work in the current economic downturn therefore in many cases people are looking to become independent as they are no longer able to rely on their jobs.
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Venture Capital -A Two Way Street
Although the concept of venture capital has been around for well over two hundred years, it is only really in the last twenty or thirty years that companies have specifically sought to boost entrepreneurialism and profit through the development and growth of successful businesses. Many of the venture capital companies trading today were initiated in the eighties or nineties.
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FACING REDUNDANCY? BUY A FRANCHISE By Ann Andrews CSP
As an employee, how vulnerable are you in these extremely challenging times?
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Are you entirely happy with your job?
A poll of more than 2,800 employees in the UK carried out for online learning provider SkillSoft has found that two-thirds go to work wishing they were doing something else!
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Demand in Specific Areas Announced
The Garage Conversion Company has announced 8 key areas for growth in 2009.
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Brand Builder of the Year Award Winner Dream Doors gets Nominated for Two More Awards
Since winning Brand Builder of the Year at the Franchisor of the Year Awards in July, kitchen facelift franchise, Dream Doors, has been nominated for two further awards.
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UK's Largest Kitchen Facelift Franchise Deems Annual Conference A Success
PORTSMOUTH UK - Dream Doors held its sixth annual conference at the Marriott Hotel in Portsmouth last week. The Director General of the British Franchise Association, Brian Smart, attended the event to talk to franchisees about the development of the Portsmouth-based brand into a national franchise.
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Dream doors wins 'Brand Builder Of The Year Title'
Dream Doors are ‘Express Newspapers Brand Builder of the Year’ in the British Franchise Association’s (bfa) 2008 Franchisor of the Year Awards.
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Exceptional customer service is the key to franchise success”, says Drain Away MD Jason Carpenter
Drain Away is one of the South’s premier plumbing and drainage companies having been trading successfully since 1990. Having seen the business develop and grow, Drain Away now feels it is time to invite franchisees to join us to expand the business nationwide.
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MOLLY MAID VISITS NOEL’S HQ
MOLLY MAID had the opportunity to contribute to the last episode of Noel’s HQ, a Sky 1 prime time live show. The national domestic cleaning company went on to present Pam and Steve Long with a well earned break from cleaning for a year.
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MOLLY MAID INTERNATIONAL HITS RECORD NUMBERS IN 2008
Despite difficult trading conditions, the market for professional domestic cleaning continues to grow, say industry leaders MOLLY MAID. They announced a record global turnover of over £140 million pounds, a 21% growth on the results from last year. With over 450 MOLLY MAID franchise Owners across the UK, Canada, USA, Portugal and Japan the MOLLY MAID brand is ‘tickled pink’ with these results.
