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5 Traits of the Ideal Skedaddle Franchise Owner & Meet Our Newest Franchisee
If you’ve been dreaming of business ownership as a means to finally escape the corporate world, you’re not alone. However, while thousands of businesses are formed every year, just as many fail, leaving the informed potential entrepreneur wary of joining that statistic. With Skedaddle, our pest control franchise is designed to help anyone build their business and financial wealth, no matter their professional background or level of knowledge of the home protection industry. This is because we enable Franchise Owners to build and leverage a W-2 team of technicians and sales employees, leaving management and business growth to Franchisees.
As Skedaddle continues to grow in the United States and finishes selling out territories in Canada, we’ve recognized a handful of essential attributes shared by our top-earning Franchise Owners, many of which we found in our newest Owner, Philip Campbell! As a franchisee candidate, it’s important to consider only the franchise brands that are the right fit for you, so let’s take a closer look at these traits, as well as review why franchising with Skedaddle may be the right choice for you.
Why Start a Business with a Franchise?
At some point, most people dream of starting their own business. However, most potential entrepreneurs don’t have any business management experience or understanding of how to properly and sustainably market and scale their business concept. Instead, going with a franchise gives you an established business foundation, including the services themselves, how to execute the services, the general operations, marketing tools, sales training, and more. When you choose to join a franchise brand, all the difficult work is done for you, leaving you with simple systems and processes to help you build a successful business.
Why Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control?
Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control is an extraordinary franchise investment opportunity that provides Franchisees with a business that helps prevent and protect homeowners from hazardous wildlife encounters in addition to pest control and other seasonal services, including holiday lighting. With over 33 years in the home services industry and our proprietary methodology at their disposal, our Franchisees gain the tools they need to thrive in the in-demand home protection market. Now, most territories in Canada are sold out, and our U.S. presence is growing, making our franchise business model a clear success for the right Owner.
In-Demand, Recession-Resistant Services
Animal encounters happen no matter what is going on with the economy, and they often result in issues that homeowners don’t want to deal with on their own. In 2020 alone, Skedaddle franchise owners recorded solid sales and strong year-over-year growth – even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every home in any city is vulnerable to mice, bats, birds, and more, yet no national company is focused on this necessary home protection service.
Minimal Competition
While there are plenty of pest control and home inspection companies across the country – most of the mom-and-pop operations – the number of companies focused on protecting homes and preventing animals from entering them in the first place is slim to none. When Skedaddle Franchisees face any competition, it’s often a simple “Chuck-in-a-truck” trapper, allowing our professionalism to speak for itself and acquire the customer over the competition every time.
Home-Based & Scalable Business
Skedaddle was built on a home-based model, allowing Franchisees to run their business out of a home office or a small storage facility. Thanks to our low financial investment, low overhead expenses, and the in-demand and necessary nature of our home protection work, this is an easily scalable business concept that works well in any market. While we don’t require it, we would love to see Franchise Owners with 5-10+ vehicles running in their market.
Our 5 Ideal Franchise Owner Traits
As a leader in the home protection franchise industry across North America, we’ve worked with people from all walks of life and careers, helping them to build their own Skedaddle home protection services brand in their communities. Since most of our business owners oversee their business from a management standpoint, wildlife experience and a passion for animals aren’t wholly necessary. Over the years, we’ve gathered that a majority of our most successful franchisees share a few key traits in addition to being effective problem solvers and organized multitaskers. Continue reading to learn more about what makes an ideal Skedaddle pest control business Owner to learn if you fit our franchise!
1. Enthusiastic About Being an Entrepreneur
As a home protection Franchise Owner with Skedaddle, you need to be excited about becoming your own boss – whether that’s full-time or on the side of your current career. While this excitement can be centered around the idea of growing your personal wealth, it also needs to extend to the effect you and your business will have on your community. With Skedaddle, your pest control services provide a valuable service to your customers and will change how people in your territory think about animal control for the better. You need to maintain this enthusiasm, whether it’s for your first or 500th day of business.
1. Enthusiastic About Being an Entrepreneur
As a home protection Franchise Owner with Skedaddle, you need to be excited about becoming your own boss – whether that’s full-time or on the side of your current career. While this excitement can be centered around the idea of growing your personal wealth, it also needs to extend to the effect you and your business will have on your community. With Skedaddle, your pest control services provide a valuable service to your customers and will change how people in your territory think about animal control for the better. You need to maintain this enthusiasm, whether it’s for your first or 500th day of business.
2. Strong Management Skills
Skedaddle pest control Franchise Owners who see the most success do so because they effectively build and manage their team and lead them toward a common goal. This often begins small, with just one or two employees doing the work of installing equipment, handling wildlife, etc., but with Skedaddle’s scalable business model, it has the ability to grow to dozens of team members running a 5-10 vehicle fleet. Regardless of how big or small your team may be, you need to bring a confident management mindset and skills that you can leverage to hire people and further impact your community.
3. Growth Mindset
In the franchise world, solo-run Owner-operator businesses are typical, but it takes a deliberately planned scalable business model to ensure Franchisees can grow from solopreneurs to empire builders. At Skedaddle, we give our Franchise Owners all the tools they need to succeed from day one, enabling them to grow their humane wildlife removal business and eventually expand into more territories. However, to do that, you need to bring a growth mindset to the table so you can envision your big-picture dreams and establish concrete goals to help you get there.
4. Customer Service-Minded
Skedaddle was built to help customers with the confusing and often scary situation of encountering wildlife in the home. As a home protection Franchise Owner, you need to sympathize with others often to help form solutions and close sales, which requires effective communication and customer service skills. Being able to reassure a customer and allow your professionalism to speak for itself will help build a strong, positive reputation with homeowners in your community and ensure your customers will feel comfortable referring you to everyone they know.
5. Sales-Oriented
The majority of the work pest control Franchise Owners do when they own a Skedaddle franchise is sales. So, this means you need to be confident in your ability to close sales and clearly communicate why you are the best choice for your customers’ needs. With the humane animal control industry, you’ll be working with in-demand home protection services that property owners don’t want to do themselves, so you won’t experience the same high-pressure sales you might see with a franchise in another industry. As you grow, you must also train your own Skedaddle sales team, combining your management and sales skills.
Help Us Welcome Our Newest Franchisee, Philip Campbell!
Joining us from Huntington, Maryland, Philip Campbell is the newest American Owner we’re excited to welcome to the Skedaddle home services franchise family! As a first-time franchisee, Philip is joining us with a background in telecommunications and technology, supplemented by his 22 years of service in the U.S. Navy. While he connected with us through a franchise broker, it was our semi-absentee ownership option and emphasis on professionalism and doing the right thing that sold him on the Skedaddle pest control franchise.
As we welcome Philip to Skedaddle, we’re eager to share with you what made Philip decide to join our humane wildlife control franchise and what he’s looking forward to as he plans for his new future.
Philip: “They were incredibly personal and engaging. It was action-packed, and I enjoyed being able to go on some jobs to see the work in real-time.”
S: “What were some of the struggles/challenges you faced in your previous career that you think will make you a successful entrepreneur?”
Philip: “They were incredibly personal and engaging. It was action-packed, and I enjoyed being able to go on some jobs to see the work in real-time.”
S: “What were some of the struggles/challenges you faced in your previous career that you think will make you a successful entrepreneur?”
S: “What do you look forward to most about owning your own Skedaddle animal control franchise?”
P: “Being able to hire and train a professional team dedicated to our work, especially veterans looking for another opportunity.”
Now that you know more about what it takes to be a successful Franchisee with Skedaddle Humane Wildlife and pest control, do you see these traits in yourself? Whether you’re ready to take a leap of faith and leave the corporate world behind to start your own home services business, or you want to start your business on the side while you continue your full-time career, Skedaddle has the franchise ownership opportunity that could fit you.
Ready to follow in Philip’s stead and become the next Franchisee to bring Skedaddle to their community? Take the first step and contact us to see if you qualify, or check out this page on our website for more information.