A Grand Canyon white water rafting guide will tell you, “You are primarily responsible for your own survival.” And if you own a company, you are the person that must be primarily responsible for the survival of your business.
After reading the title, you might be wondering what all this has to do with health and safety? Well, we want to avoid all three of these things, or at least put them out of our minds for now.
You might not think the insurance restoration contractor has much in common with Best Buy, you know, the giant chain that sells electronics, appliances and digital devices. But I see some disturbing similarities.
We certainly don’t mean to reference ole’ Bill Shakespeare here, but what better way to introduce a common dilemma that many cleaning and restoration business owners are weighing every day: franchise or don’t franchise?
A lot of companies wait for the phone to ring from an adjuster for a new job or for a program to send them a new job. That’s not necessarily the best way to go about securing work.
Programs have been around since the 1990’s and there has certainly been a lot of discussion as to the good points and the, well, not so good points that pertain to them.
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