LEARN FROM PEOPLE 
WHO'VE DONE IT.

"So I said, okay, well, I'm gonna make $50,000 one day. So you have to set your sights on a goal that's gonna take you from where you are to where you want to go, then you look for the right tools, the levers, the opportunities that will take you there."

Rick McCarthy
Ideal Siding

"Starting your own business is so scary but it really was freeing and I knew it was something that would be mine that I could prove myself. Catch up, if you will, of all that time I'd taken off.

Never thought I would have the guts to do something like this but so glad I did cause it introduced the next chapter in my life."

Jennifer Lyons
Art of Drawers

"That was tough. You're working more hours, making less money. But it was also for a greater purpose. It allowed us to be home, like all those things still check the box. I'm still home, I'm still invested in my community. I'm home and present for my wife and my kids."

Ethan Fields
Bloomin' Blinds

"Don't just hope on Google to help you and don't just hope on the franchise to do it for you.

Find somebody that knows how to do it and teach you. With a mentor and or a business coach from the franchise. I mean, you should do it every week."

Sam Marcisso
Zoom Drain

"And I started looking into having kind of a balance between being an entrepreneur and having the corporate side and franchising was kind of the way that I thought ‘Okay, I'm not starting from the beginning."

Isabel Calero
Fresh Coat Painters

"It's about commitment and it's about being hands-on, and having the right team. Especially when you enter the hotel business, if you're not hands-on, going to the hotel daily basis, working the front desk, even making rooms, understanding the business from each segment, whether it's housekeeping, maintenance, or front desk or stales. The ones that succeed are very much in their hotels and they hire good friendly staff.

I'm lucky that I've got a great team around me, people that support me in everything that I do. And at the hotel level, you've gotta have people that understand. So you could take a vacation."

Tesh Patel
Wyndham Hotels

"I think the biggest thing I tell people, whether they're a new FCI franchisee starting out or somebody else in business, you know, in my network, when people are struggling, is the number one thing that will increase your happiness quotient to take ownership of your business.

Like, fully take ownership if you're going through a hard thing, you can feel sad about it for a minute, and then you gotta find a way out."

Janie Sandberg
Floor Coverings International

"You don't realize how much of an asset you are. And when I was at RHY for two years, what I realized is my work ethic, my attention to detail, my ability to problem solve seemed to be much higher than my peers that have been there much longer, right? 

So knowing that you have a lot more to offer than you think you do, because you were just a marine, just a soldier, just a sailor, whatever, right? There's a lot of people that need that type of talent."

Drew Raymond
Superior Fence & Rail