Becoming a Franchisor

This is an inspirational story of a couple of guys who followed their passion and started small store, and slowly added stores:

The customized white vehicle, emblazoned with smiling humans and healthy-looking dogs and the words ZoominGroomin in blue and Mobile Pet Spa in red, leaves little doubt about the reason for the visit.

In fact, it was because Carey Takach spotted the van on the road one day that she signed on with the mobile pet groomer. That and the coupon her sister had passed along to her.

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Toback said he has 700 regular customers just nine months after starting the venture, along with two vans and five groomers and 100 appointments a week.

The former retail executive, who at one point was a vice president for menswear, became a mobile pet groomer at age 56.

“I was sick of looking at polos,” he said. “My cocker spaniel is my business adviser and was the catalyst to the whole thing.”

Toback said the idea to become a mobile groomer franchisee struck when he considered the amount of time involved in taking his dog to the groomer’s. He would drop him off at 8 a.m. and pick him up at 5 p.m.

“He was waiting in a cage for six hours, waiting his turn,” Toback said.

It occurred to Toback that many pet owners treat their pets “like children,” noting that a parent would not drop their child off at a barber for eight hours. The average mobile groom session is an hour and fifteen minutes, he said.

Is there something you do in your daily life that just takes too long? Perhaps it can “delivered” directly to the customer, such as pet services, home vet or medical care, 20 minutes dry cleaning while-you-wait, high-end group child care. Maybe you can be the franchisor.

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