Made for her

INVESTING IN A MAID2CLEAN FRANCHISE IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE BEST DECISION I HAVE EVER MADE, SAYS LINDA KENYON

Maid2Clean is a cleaning franchise where the franchisee never actually cleans. It is operated as a management franchise where the franchisee manages the cleaners - and with a low start-up cost of under £10,000 it is a very attractive proposition.

Linda Kenyon was attracted to Maid2Clean for precisely these reasons, but didn’t jump in with both feet immediately. Having searched long and hard for a business opportunity that would give her the freedom from bosses and the independence to set her own income, Linda never dreamed that she would find what she was looking for in a cleaning franchise of all things.

PROMISE
Everything she looked into promised great riches and financial freedom, but it was never forthcoming and she became so sceptical about franchising that she thought she was going to be stuck as a nurse forever in a job that she loved, but which had changed so much it was no longer what she wanted to do.

While browsing through a franchise search engine, Linda stumbled upon Maid2Clean. She visited the website and made the usual enquiries of the franchisor but knew, instinctively, that it wouldn’t be for her; nothing would work anyway, so why should she bother?

Elaine Hanrahan from Maid2Clean called Linda, as the company does with all enquiries, and invited Linda down to see her and take a look at what Maid2Clean had to offer. Linda was not sure whether she wanted to accept the invitation, because she was sure Maid2Clean would take her money and leave her in the same situation she had been in before.

Linda put Elaine off and decided not to go, saying that she would speak to Maid2Clean again at a later date. Some time later Maid2Clean rang Linda back. Linda remembers: “We got chatting and I thought: ‘Let’s go and see the company to put this lady out of her misery, because I know for a fact I won’t be doing this business.”

Linda persuaded her close friend, Pete, to go with her for moral support and because, like her, he was looking for a business opportunity and had been let down in the past. Pete was also wary of the invitation, and travelling to the meeting kept telling Linda he was only going to give his opinion - he wasn’t going to buy a franchise.

COMFORTABLE
Linda says: “Pete and I met Elaine Hanrahan and felt immediately at ease with her. She was very warm and we both felt very comfortable. We listened intently to what she had to say and by the time we left we were so excited and impressed by what we had seen that I bought my franchise and Pete bought one a couple of months later.

“I have been trading since September 2005 and have steadily grown my business in that time. I work with my husband, who delivers the leaflets, and I work in the office. In the time we have been in business we have managed to get 72 clients and 40 cleaners.

We also have 15 clients that we are outstanding, so in total that gives us 87.” And these figures relate to Linda’s first 12 months in business.

Many of Linda’s friends, including her father, have ridiculed her for spending money on a franchise in an area where she could quite easily have set up on her own. Says Linda:“Little do they know that without the support and advice that Elaine has given me over the past 12 months I know I would have failed at the first hurdle. As it is, I have no doubt that this business will give me everything I have longed for all these years, and I am now building a great future for myself and my family.

“Maid2Clean is without doubt the best decision I have ever made in my life and I would like to thank Elaine and Mike Hanrahan and their team for giving me this fantastic opportunity and helping me along every step of the way.”

Website: www.maid2clean.co.uk
Contact: Elaine Hanrahan
Telephone: 0845 257 MAID (6243)

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