Franchise Friday – Episode 207 with Adam Winnett of WOW One Day Painting

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In this episode, Melissa speaks with Adam Winnett of WOW One Day Painting

About Adam Winnet, as a Franchise Development Manager, I qualify candidates and introduce them to our award-winning franchise system. WOW One Day Painting has quickly followed in the footsteps of its sister company 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, the World’s Largest Junk Removal Company, by launching 25+ franchises in its first 3 years of operation.

With over 14 years of experience introducing people to their next exciting career path, I enjoy having a positive impact on an individual’s life and helping them achieve their goals.

I am always interested in expanding my social and professional network. I enjoy meeting new people and at one point lived in Ireland; creating a love of Guinness.

Specialties: Supporting Tottenham Hotspurs FC, Whitecaps FC and the Vancouver Canucks. And
some Franchise Development on the side.

WOW 1 DAY PAINTING has revolutionized the residential painting industry by offering customers a unique service model and level of professionalism currently not found in the industry.

Yes, we do complete painting projects in one day! It’s a bold consumer offering – but we take pride in being bold. Do you remember when FedEx came up with the crazy idea to deliver packages overnight?

We’re building a world-class brand in a very fragmented industry that lacks professionalism and is ripe for reinvention. We’ve all heard horror stories about sketchy contractors that don’t deliver on their promises. Our mission is to take the ordinary business of painting and make it an exceptional customer experience.

Imagine leaving for work in the morning and coming home to a freshly painted space. That’s exactly what you’ll experience with WOW 1 DAY PAINTING. We’ve perfected our painting process, which means we’re able to give you a quality paint job in just 1 day.

Our customers love us because we really deliver on our promise: SPEED + QUALITY = WOW.

According to Melissa… “you touched on this a few times and I think culture is really the shining star of the story when it comes to OTP brands and Wow, one day, I also see that a lot of the TES clients who are working with coaches and our franchisor members they love knowing the culture.” It really doesn’t matter so much to them what the business is. Great, it’s painting great, it’s pizza, great. It’s handyman. It is really about can I see myself here, what do I love about it? Is this a community that I can grow in, and I get the support that I need? So, from the Wow, one day side of it, what are some of those things that franchisees love or that really draws someone to the brand that people wouldn’t think of, because I think that’s like such a big deal.

More from Adam: When they’re thinking about their own business. In a franchise, your own business is also still a part of a culture. Right? So, I’d encourage anybody looking at franchises. Get to know the culture of that franchisor, the other franchisees? And is that something you want to be a part of or not? Because you’re going to be ideally with that group for a long time, that company for a long time? Some things that draw people to wow, and a painting, there’s a few for sure, that are consistent. One of them is not a love of painting. I always talk about our people like, I don’t know, I wouldn’t have thought of this, because I don’t love painting. And like, that’s the first thing my excited that you said to me. Yeah, I don’t want you to be obsessed with painting. And all you all want to do is just go and pick up a paintbrush, like, that’s not this, right, we’re looking for people that are excited to build and scale large home service businesses, in this case it is painting. Also, this is a customer experience company, we just happen to paint. There are other painting businesses out there, or franchises or whatever. And they’re focused on being good painting businesses. And that’s a totally fine lane to be in. We are a very focused customer experience business. And that is what our owners are passionate about. What our owners are excited about is having that kind of service that their community loves, and people rave about.

They want to build relationships with other people in our community that deal in our space, like realtors and contractors and different people like that. And they also want to have teams of people, they’re excited about helping people grow a career that provides for their families.

I’ve got this $2 million business running, but I’ve built it that way to really enjoy the lifestyle and that’s a huge thing that people want to have a different way of living and they’re not as tied to their success via physically being there as maybe they need to be with a job. So those are some consistent things that get them excited

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