Everyone will happily tell you about the upsides of being your own boss. Setting your own hours, making your own decisions, and keeping the rewards of your hard work.

All of it is true, but people rarely talk about the other side of it.

When you start a business on your own, you have to learn every part of it yourself, often things you’ve never had to deal with before. Every difficult decision, every hard lesson, and every crisis, lands in your lap, and yours alone. Being the boss can be isolating and, when something goes wrong, there’s usually nobody to call who understands what you’re facing.

This is one of the major attractions of joining a franchise rather than going it alone… you run your own business, but you’re not left to work everything out from scratch. You have a proven model to follow and a franchisor with real experience of the business who’s there to help whenever you need it.

The Countrywide Signs franchise takes that support to a whole new level

Unlike most franchises which will have 1 or 2 people dedicated purely to support their franchisees, Countrywide Signs boasts an impressive 9 full-time support staff. With a network currently numbering 31 franchisees, that works out at roughly one member of the support team for every four franchisees.

That means there’s always someone there to turn to, whether it’s help with the day-to-day running of your business, or advice on how to develop and grow it. You don’t have to know all the answers yourself, particularly in those early months when there’s a great deal to take in and plenty of decisions to make.

People who understand what you’re going through

Perhaps even more important than the number of support staff, is the people actually in those roles. Around three-quarters of the head office team are current, or former, franchisees themselves.

They know what it’s like to build a business within the network because they’ve done it first-hand. They’ve faced the same early questions, learned what works, and dealt with the same challenges you will. So, when you call for advice, you’re not talking to someone reading from a script. You’re talking to people who understand it from the franchisee’s side.

Starting out will still mean hard work, and there will always be things you have to learn for yourself, but having people around you who’ve already been through it makes a real difference.

Want to find out what that support would look like for you?

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