The advantages of a HomeTask handyman franchise

Take a look at what sets HomeTask apart from the other handyman franchises:

You be the handyman, while we run the business. With a HomeTask.com handyman franchise, you’re free to do what you love: home repairs and maintenance. We give you the tools and support you need to spend more time as a handyman and less time shuffling paperwork.

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Benefits

We have a “tool box� of benefits that minimize the time you spend on the business and maximize the time you spend with your handyman service. We offer most of the infrastructure needed to manage your handyman business, including marketing, bookkeeping, and medical benefits.

• Use of Technology: While other handymen are spending precious time on scheduling and bookkeeping, the HomeTask handyman franchise owner focuses on billable hours. We lead the way in our use of technology to make the handyman business easier for you and for your customer.
  
• Free marketing materials: We’ll provide you with business cards, brochures, door hangers, note pads, and more. We also provide ideas and guidelines for the use of these items in the HomeTask Operations Manual. All we ask is that you take care of the shipping costs for these materials. In addition, we’ll provide press releases you can use to announce the opening of your business to local media or keep them informed of HomeTask Support Center news.
  
• Monthly bookkeeping service: We know that bookkeeping can be a huge frustration and distraction to Franchise Partners. All you have to do is keep up to date with expense and income information via the HomeTask database. We’ll do the rest.
  
• Monthly financial reporting: On top of providing the bookkeeping basics, we also give you monthly financial reports that are benchmarked with your fellow Franchise Partners. This is a fantastic tool to learn how to increase your performance.
  
• On-line scheduler: Our easy-to-use on-line scheduler lets us schedule your appointments to suit your individual needs. Just block out any days or hours that you need for any reason and the scheduler works around you. If your child has a soccer game then by all means, make the game!
  
• Service-van support: We have developed a color and design scheme for our service vans that is both eye catching and clearly understandable—a great way to market your business. We also provide the initial set of service van graphics free of charge to new Franchise Partners.
  
• Free HomeTask uniform: We have put together a clothing gear package that helps you make a high-impact first impression. The initial set of clothing gear is provided for free at the initiation of a new franchise.
  
• Team Meetings: We hold periodic team meetings where Franchise Partners can tell HomeTask Support Center Staff what works and what doesn’t work about our process and how we can improve it. In other words, we want your input to help our company be the best it can be.
  
• Annual family vacations: These optional getaways allow us to grow and have fun together. They provide an opportunity for you and HomeTask to gain momentum by celebrating our successes, honoring each other, and looking into the future.
  
• HomeTask Cares Foundation: This foundation allows Franchise partners and their friends and family to donate their services to needy people in their community.
  
• Available health and dental care plans: Finding your own health or dental care can be difficult and expensive. We have arranged for health and dental care plans with leading providers for your optional participation.
  
• Available retirement plan: We have created this optional 501 (c) format retirement plan to ensure some long-term security for you and your family. You have the option of participating and increasing your plan anytime you want, but the fund is supported by annual contributions from HomeTask.com
  
• Available life insurance plan for each Franchise Partner: We hope to be able to make this benefit available to all Franchise Partners, though we can’t guarantee eligibility due to obvious limitations that exist which are outside of our control and based on the individual health and other parameters.
  
• Free inclusion in a Catastrophic Fund: Because we are like family and know you have concerns for the security of those you live with, we provide a free Catastrophic Fund for all Franchise Partners which is designed to support them in times of extreme need.
  
• Free consultation with a financial planner and CPA: Let us assist you with your personal and business finances. We’ve arranged with the highest quality firms available for you to have one free meeting with a financial planner and a CPA to get your business headed in the right direction.
  
• So much more: Don’t forget the HomeTask Development Team, the HomeTask Rewards System (coming in 2006), and HomeTask Heroes program we mentioned previously. These make us who we are!

Financial Investment

Compared to other handyman franchises, our front-end investment is low, and we have sources to help with your handyman business start-up costs. This low investment lowers your risk, and makes it easier for you to get your handyman service up and running.

The franchise fee is $15,000. To get more information about the franchise start up costs, please complete a short registration form and then you will be given access to review the UFOC (Uniform Franchise Offering Circular) documents without obligation. Contact us for more about the start up costs of a HomeTask handyman franchise compared to other franchise opportunities.

Rewards

To reward leadership and creative thinking, we have a “Rewards System� lets you earn points towards free team gear, tools, and other fun stuff. We also celebrate our “HomeTask Heroes� who go the extra mile. We spread the word about these heroes in e-mails and print.

Make your business what you want it to be: Our mission is to make it easier for you to pursue your vocation and find balance in your life. Prioritize your time and work when it works for you and your family. Build your handyman business big or keep it small. Take vacations when it works for you. A HomeTask handyman franchise is your ticket to self-employment without stress.

Training and Support

To help get you going, we provide training that includes in-class work and ride-along experience with an existing Franchise Partner. We also have a library of resources available to you so you can continue learning as you go.

Being in business for yourself can be lonely. At HomeTask, we’ve built a community to support our handymen. We like to say, “In business for yourself, but not by yourself.� You can tap into this support in two ways:

• Use our support center, available to you 24/7, 365 days a year
  
• Join a HomeTask Development Team to share ideas with and learn from other Franchise Partners as your team becomes your business “family.â€�

We have an excellent communication network. With our centralized contact support center, powerful 1-800 number, state-of-the-art web-enabled database, e-mail services, and wireless technology, you’re never more than a call or e-mail away from support.

Who is the right type of person to be a HomeTask handyman?

The success of our company and brand comes in part from the quality of the people we invite to be handyman franchise owners. If you’re not passionate about great service and you don’t get excited about fixing other people’s problems and seeing the joy on their faces when they know you’ve handled a home repair for them, then HomeTask may not be right for you.