Own the team, not just the toolbox

Detailed summary

Hire A Hubby’s Enterprise franchises offer career changers a chance to swap corporate life for running a team, winning customers and building something they own. Leaving a…

Hire A Hubby’s Enterprise franchises offer career changers a chance to swap corporate life for running a team, winning customers and building something they own.

Leaving a salaried job to start a business can be exciting. It can also mean confronting a daunting list of things you have never done before.

Finding customers. Pricing jobs. Hiring people. Keeping the invoices moving.

Hire A Hubby general manager Jason Hill says its Enterprise franchise model offers a way into business ownership with support behind you, and room to build beyond a one-person operation.

The familiar image of a handyman arriving in a van tells only part of the story.

“Enterprise owners run teams, coordinate jobs and develop customer relationships,” Hill says.

“They don’t necessarily need a trade qualification themselves. Management experience, practical interests and an ability to organise people are key to a successful Hire A Hubby Enterprise franchise.”

The backgrounds of existing Hire A Hubby owners show there is no single route into the business.

One Auckland operator came from corporate finance, bringing experience running teams alongside hands-on skills developed outside work. Another had owned a store and a Fonterra distribution business. Others brought experience in arboriculture and panel beating.

Opening of the article, excerpted from NZ Herald Business. To read the rest, open the article on the publisher's site.