Own the team, not just the toolbox

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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.

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