We are all different. We have different needs and wants and we are all willing to expend differing amounts of effort to get what we want, so it’s important to discover is it for you?
Yes, most of us would like to have a business where we don’t have to work very hard, whilst others do the work and we take the majority of the money. However, those businesses don’t just grow on trees. Someone has to start and grow them to the size where there is sufficient revenue coming into the business, that the owner can take it a bit easy.
Some of us will invest that effort, knowing we will get the payback later on, and some of us won’t.
Quite a few franchisors give a false impression that starting a new business is a breeze. All you have to do is pay your franchise purchase fee and customers will come running to your new business flinging their money into your bank account. It’s this type of misleading talk that gives franchising a bad name and it simply is not true.
Starting a new business requires many things, the majority of which will be provided by a good franchisor, but the one thing the franchisee needs to bring to the party is DRIVE. I like to think of starting a new business is like starting a big heavy wheel rolling. When you start to roll the wheel it has no momentum, it’s stationary. Initially, the wheel requires lots of energy, or drive, to start it rolling as the wheel picks up speed it gains momentum and now it requires less energy to keep it rolling.
That’s how you should think about your new lawn care business. Yes, Lawnscience will provide all the technical know-how and the equipment and we’ll provide you with industry-leading training to make sure you can and are ready to perform well. But it will be you that actually has to perform. Yes, we’ll be there to provide support in the tough times, but you have to bring something to the party and that is drive.
A bit of soul searching is useful before you start your own business, any business. If you don’t want to put in some effort, trust me it’s not for you. Instead of owning your own business, it might be better for you, if you work for someone else who owns their own business. It won’t be as much fun.
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