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Joy Dowell, Your Mortgage Plus franchisee managed a tremendous achievement of completing a staggering 16 mortgages throughout March this year. That averages out at just above one mortgage completed every two days!  Of the 16 cases, approximately 60%-70% were Buy-To-Let (BTL), with one client completing 3 re-mortgages for their properties. As a Your Mortgages Plus advisor, Joy is directly regulated with the FCA which allows her to place both regulated and unregulated BTL cases. The rema...

Your Mortgage Plus used their knowledge to help secure a mortgage for a client who was an employee at a major high street bank, who was refused on her first application. Darren Street, a regulated advisor of our network, has recently placed a case with Halifax for a client who is an employee of a different major high street bank who were not willing to lend to her. The client, an underwriter at her bank, was not able to access funds from her place of work, as she had a number of defaults 5...

In certain industries such as travel, recent statistics show that women are opening 1 out of ever 3 new franchise businesses. It was once historically a very male-dominated industry, franchising is slowly but surely have been changing this over the past decade.  “Across the last 6 months, we’ve seen just over 50% of our new franchisees to be women.” The Travel Franchise Generally speaking women have strong communication skills, are good at building relationships, networking and often...

Ross joined The Travel Franchise at the end of 2020 and was part of the last training group. After his music production business slowed following the pandemic, Ross went with our Elite franchise package to start his instant travel business.After a £76k holiday booking came in we couldn’t pass on the chance to hear more from the man himself.Tell us more about this £76k holiday booking… “The booking was for a family of eleven and it’s multi-generational! They are all going to Orlando f...

David Walker of the Not Just Travel franchise has just hit £10 million in sales! He claims his success is down to a genuine love for giving customers the best-ever experience.Never one to be idle, David used to sit planning holidays while watching TV, so becoming a personal travel consultant, running his very own travel business felt like the obvious move. Now seven years down the line, he said he’s never been happier.David, who runs The Travel Snob, is a homeworking travel consultant. He starte...

The Travel Franchise's Reshma, aged 39, lives in Essex with her family. Reshma decided to leave the corporate world behind and launched her business back in October 2020 and she has just achieved the Money Back Challenge. She is now a successful travel business owner.“I’ve achieved the Money Back Challenge 6 months after first starting my travel business. After being an at-home mum of 3 for 7-8 years, to hear this news has really given me a feeling of a sense of achievement. I’ve worked incredib...

With the warm weather soon approaching, working outside becomes every office workers dream. Being your own boss and having access to a market that is recession-proof and pandemic proof, now is the best time to get involved in the estate agency board erecting sector. Houses are always going up for sale all across the UK, and in order to let potential buyers know this we stick a great big sign outside the property. But these signs do not magically appear, that is where the business Agency Exp...

In the UK there has been a significant rise in dog ownership, which has had a knock on effect on the local “poo hotspots”. With Summer fast approaching, it is not surprising that pet owners have been enjoying getting out as much as possible with their pets for exercise and fresh air in their local area.Unfortunately, dog mess can be a big problem in dog walking areas. Whilst we all agree that picking up dog mess is one of the least enjoyable aspects of looking after our four-legged friends, it’s...

Extra Help are delighted to welcome a new mother-and-daughter team, Deliwe Kamba and Tashinga Kunyarimwe, to the Extra Help family. The family duo are running Extra Help Kettering together and launched their new home-help and domestic cleaning business on 5th January this year, covering East Northamptonshire.Deliwe and Tashinga live together in a village called Burton Latimer, near Kettering. Deliwe has been a nurse for over twenty years and Tashinga is an accountancy graduate who worked in seve...

Extra Help has continued their recent surge of new franchise recruits during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, largely due to the resilience of the franchise and flexibility of our services. The fact that they assist vulnerable and elderly people in our local communities deems us an essential business in the government’s eyes, which has been very much welcomed by our franchisees and customers alike during the past year. This week, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Extra Help Leeds East a...

Extra Help have recruited a number of new franchisees over the past few months thanks to their flexible home-help and domestic services they provide, alongside the fact they have remained open during the pandemic to help their clients for all their needs. This story is a warm welcoming to Adrian Preece, who has joined Extra Help in Shropshire.  Although Adrian lives in Telford, his area stretches from Whitchurch in the north to Ludlow in the south, then from Shrewsbury in the east to Oswes...

We often hear success stories of how franchisees struggled to find their niche prior to joining a franchise. However for Nicola Eden, the new owner of Extra Help in Bexley, she is an example of a franchisee who experienced a run of bad luck in her career and personal life, leading to her decision to become a business owner and mistress of her own destiny.Nicola is a lovely, single mum to three daughters from Bexleyheath. Prior to launching her new franchise on 1st March this year, she worked in...