Living Clean founder Julie Bishop, a relative newcomer to the market, Living Clean aims to be a cleaning franchise with a difference.
Julie Bishop explains what makes her cleaning franchise so unique.
“As well as offering a service the franchisee can sell the products, so it’s not just a cleaning franchise,” she says.
“Lots of farm shops sell our products and the franchisee can sell to them as an extra to clients. People can purchase the products online and if it’s in the franchisee’s territory then they get their sale.”
Environmentally responsible
As well as doubling up as a service and retail business, Julie says her cleaning franchise’s products set it apart.
“We sell and use all of our own products. We have a chemist who makes them for us.
“They’re totally environmentally responsible, all concentrated, all based on citrus flavours.”
Businesses are falling over one another trying to be eco-friendly these days and Julie is finding this selling point is enabling her to target a broad range of customer segments.
“We’re not just selling to a cash-rich, time-poor market.
“We’re also selling to people suffering from illnesses like ME, asthma, eczema, people who look to only take on green companies. And we have the market of pregnant women who want to buy things that aren’t going to harm them or their baby.”
The cleaning franchise’s first franchisee is Sandra Neto, who has made the transition from cleaner to entrepreneur. Sandra, 39, relishes her new role:
“It’s different from cleaning offices every day! It was a bit boring doing the same thing every day.
“I now get to manage and develop a company, rather than just cleaning.”
"Reassuring"
Sandra, who had initially considered car valeting franchises, chose Living Clean partly because of the convenience and strength of the support on offer.
“I have a franchisor quite close to where I live, basically in the same city. It was reassuring that whatever I needed would be just around the corner.”
Sandra Neto’s advice to other prospective franchise buyers is to be thorough when pondering a franchise opportunity.
“Sometimes you can have a gut feeling that you’re with the right company, with the right person. But you should always do the market research anyway, just to confirm that this is true.”
A Living Clean cleaning franchise will cost you a cut-price £9.995k (rising to £17.425k when the franchise is more established). For this you receive one week’s training, uniforms, three months’ supply of products, equipment, stationery, marketing, including a leaflet drop, and PR.
Find out more about the Living Clean Cleaning Franchise Opportunity on FranchiseSales.co.uk
