Are you currently battling with effectively balancing your family and business life? Are you working when you should be with your family? Maybe you are struggling with changes to your business and family life balance ? Maybe you lay awake at night “ freaking out” from nightmares about what may happen to your business if you don’t go into the office on Saturday? Do you break out in a sweat whenever a friend simply raises the subject that perhaps, you should consider changing your work pattern? Or, perhaps your partner makes plans to go out to dinner and a show, but you are always too late at work? If the above describes you, you just might have a problem that needs to be addressed. There are 2 very different drivers behind these behaviors: 1)       The Workaholic 2)       The Just Too Scared to Stop Running   Workaholic: A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours   Fi...

Do you own a service business or a home service franchise? Are you struggling to convert a high percentage of your quotes? Maybe you have no idea on how a professional actually quotes? We have the answers that will make work and make you income now. If your business is home cleaning ,lawn and garden care, window cleaning ,carpet cleaning ,car detailing or pet grooming .These 3 simple keys will give you a professional advantage when quoting  to your client.   Step 1 Present Your Quote in Person. The service provider who makes the time to get in front of their client has a major head start on building a relationship and getting the long term business. The Face to Face Communication makes all the difference If you are in front of your client you have the opportunity to get the details of your quote exact to meet your clients needs. If they have concerns you have the opportunity to answer those concerns and offer other options. Your client is gi...

Are you the greatest gardening guy in your area, but no idea how to be the salesperson in your business? Maybe you are a clean freak who just joy out of making your clients homes look sparkling, but just don't have the "gift of the gab" needed to sale yourself ? Are you in any home service business and need to learn how to sell? Our James Family business, James Home Services, grow form a one man band car cleaning business that grow to a national Franchisee Network of 400 franchisees servicing $20 million of clients home service needs annually. For many people there is a lot of misunderstanding of our the basis for elite sales skills.There is no sneaky tricks ,smoke and mirrors or black magic. It is a systematic professional approach to understanding the clients needs and wants to the services you provide and negotiating a solution that suits both parties. These Proven Sales   Fundamentals are specialised for the home ...

You want to start your own home service business? You are worried if your level of service will be professional enough? Are you running a home service business but want to take it to the next level? Over the last 25 years we have coached over 2000 home services franchisees to deliver professional home services. The systems we built in James Home Services, were based on a strong foundation of practical principals which put the customers needs first. We grow from my one man band car cleaning business to a nation brand of 400 franchisees servicing $20 million. These are the base foundations that we built our professional home service culture on. 1) Return the Call Within 15 minutes. I know that you maybe busy cleaning a car ,washing a dog, mowing a lawn , cleaning a house or spraying the cockroaches. Believe me the cockroaches can wait and the lawn isn't going to grow that much in the 15 minutes it takes to return the call to the new client. Don't let today's ...

Being a Successful Small Business Owner is Very Rewarding Feeling chained to your business? Would you love to have your business work for you when your not there? Becoming a successful small business owner is very rewarding, either as a franchisee or an independent operator.It takes true passion, commitment and motivation that turns the hopeful small business person into a competent success.  Running a business that feeds your family is a true triumph. But if you are not careful, with that success sometimes the business can become a burden to bear. That same passion that drives, can make it difficult for a lot of small business operators to delegate roles in his or her business to others. No one is going to love your business the way you love your business! Good staff are hard to find! Then they don't have your commitment to the customers! All these things have an element of truth to them. Passion that drives you ,can make it difficult to delegate We all nee...

Are you struggling to manage your business through a challenging family hardship? Maybe the pressure of an illness of a family member is effecting your ability to run the family business? Maybe your own health is the issue? I have been working for myself since I has 21.That is an achievement I am very proud of! But the road has not always been smooth, I have had my share of personal challenges ,every family has their share. No matter what the motivational gurus say.Life doesn't always go to plan!Stuff happens!The greatest plans of mice and men can go out the door in a heartbeat. The things you should worry about you will not see coming.The kind of thing that hits you at 11.28am on nondescript Saturday morning. Our Family has got through our share of family challenges Over 20 years of franchising,we have seen so many people meet face personal mountains that at the time seemed insurmountable.Illnesses like Cancer.MS.Heart Conditions,Organ transplant. ...

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Reason#5 You're a Rebel without a Cause "Hey Dude,Fight the establishment" Yeh,man you're the dude that  the establishment  can't hold down! You're the man that lead the great morning tea rebellion of 04.When  the establishment  tried to cut back on the Iced Vovo's.It's basic human right for every working man & woman to have Iced Vovo's! Or you're the bloke that at every BBQ .Who's takes great joy in ALWAYS getting in a argument with most people about everything,Because  "they are always wrong". Someone has to put them on the right track! O r,If do bother to get a recipe  you just change it,Just because you truly believe ,you smarter then that Gordan Ramsey bloke!(Of course,who isn't smarter than Gordan) Now, don't even start with the DVD player ,I know no one wastes their time reading that manual.What would a little bloke in China on a production line, know about DVD players, really? Black or white!Where are the ...

Reason#4  You want to buy a job! Now this might sound like a good idea? Sacked ,redundant, unemployed ? JUST NO ONE WANTS YOU!!!!!!!! Got some cash,you can show  them !!!!!!!! How hard can it be? You see a lot of people doing it,Some look pretty ordinary, they seem to get by! A business is just a job without a boss! You're think you're going to get the sack,So you jump 1st He doesn't do much anyway! In late ,home early! He would be buggered without you! But there is difference between being an employee and a business! Employee Definition : A person who is hired to  provide services to a company on a regular basis in exchange for compensation and who does not provide these services as part of an independent business. Business Definition: is an organisation  designed to provide goods, services, or both to consumers . Businesses are predominant in capitalists  economie...