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Aaron Harper

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The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

Um, but we predominantly focus on commercial power washing.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

So we're doing stadiums and airports and gas stations and convenience stores and bigger jobs, hospitals and stuff like that.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

Um, and no one really is doing that work currently.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

It's largely the guy who's a high school student.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

He's got a thousand dollar machine.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

He does this on the weekends and in the summers and he makes 30 grand and it's great.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

But we're coming at it from the perspective of, oh, no, we're going to build a multi-truck commercial pressure washing empire in every single market that we go into.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And so you can really build a great business by just doing something that is very ordinary and average, meaning the service, but actually just doing it better than the other people who are currently doing it and

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And that's essentially what we're doing.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And we're giving franchisees the ability to follow a system that allows them to do that.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And then on the like, how are we generating demand level?

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

Well, now we have 130 plus trucks on the road, so we can go to companies like Costco and Walmart and Chick-fil-A and be like, hey, we have 37 states that we have presence in.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

Why don't we come do, I don't know, let us do 300 of your stores.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And then we go do 300 of their stores and they're like, oh, you actually did a great job.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And I like having one point of contact.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

We don't ever want to use a local guy again.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

So here's 4,000 of them.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And so we can basically go and have this leverage now because we're the only coast-to-coast power washing company out there, because we have so many franchisees who bought into the brand and are out there grinding every single day.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

And so we have this leverage that we're able to do that no independent business owner is ever going to be able to have by just opening their own power washing company.

The Vault Unlocked
How to Build a Franchise Empire Without Starting From Scratch

So this is where people go wrong.