Outstanding Support
With the franchise model, the franchisor is happy to supply and offer ongoing support; after all, you are paying them a lot of money to have the right to call them and ask them questions; it's called a 2.5% – 7% Royalty Fee taken off the top of your Gross Revenue.
Like a franchise, StartupHomeCare offers unlimited lifetime support. Support consists of weekly phone conference meetings and daily email and phone support to help you get through all the nuances and challenges of starting and successfully growing a home care agency.
StartupHomeCare is a division of AmeriCare Services Group, Inc (ASG). ASG is a national organization that assists both providers and recipients of senior care to achieve quality and affordable care outcomes. Homecare agencies that are founded using the building blocks provided by StartupHomeCare may become a life-time member of ASG at no additional cost. New agencies that are not part of a franchise or support group can often be viewed as "loose cannons" because they have the potential to go out of business or provide non quality care due to a lack of proper start up training and support. Your new agency can gain instant respect and rapport with your customers and referral sources when you inform them that your agency is a newly opened office that is part of Americare Services Group - a national organization of independently owned home care providers. For more information about Americare Services Group they can visit www.getamericare.com.
WHY CHOOSE STARTUPHOMECARE?
Here's what makes StartupHomeCare stand out from the rest: Choice, Freedom, Protection, Opportunity, & Experience
If you are seriously considering starting your own non-medical companion homecare business - via the purchase of a successful business model - you will undoubtedly do your homework and shop around for the one that gives you the greatest opportunity to succeed. Why wouldn't you? For most people, the decision to make a career change - or for that matter, a life change - is one filled with conflicting emotions. On the one hand, there is elation at the thought of doing something you love, being your own boss, helping others, and benefiting financially from your success. On the other hand, there is apprehension about undertaking something new and facing unforeseeable hurdles. Your choice of which business opportunity to purchase will be the most important one you make and your success and future happiness will be directly linked to it. That's why StartupHomecare is committed to providing you with the tools, the training and the insight that will give you the greatest chance to succeed.
While most of the options you are researching, such as franchises, will enable you to obtain some degree of success, we believe that our unparalleled experience and insight into the field of home care, combined with our personalized and flexible approach, make us the best option for you.
The expression "one size fits all" may apply in some areas of the business world, but not in the field of home care. Other business opportunities currently being offered, like franchises, make you run your business their way. Even if it means teaching you something that is not in the best interests of you or your clients. But why would you purchase a rigid business model that can't adapt to change?
:: Choice
At StartupHomecare, we will give you the tools and the training so you can offer your customers the service that fits their needs - not the needs of the corporate office. We teach you all the different business models, so you can choose the appropriate one to meet the specific needs of your clients.
That's choice.
:: Freedom
We understand that many people want to be free to run their business on their own, on their terms, without any long-term commitment - such as franchise ownership. That's why StartupHomecare is dedicated to providing the best level of training and support without a long-term or short-term commitment from you. That's freedom.
:: Protection
All franchises say they will protect your territory. But what kind of protection are you really getting? Are you aware that you won't be able to market your services outside of your territory? That calls from potential clients living outside of your territory must be referred to competing franchisees? If you're like most people, you don't like to give away business. So why should you have to limit your potential customer base? Territory protection doesn't have to mean limiting opportunity and growth. At StartupHomecare, we encourage business owners to think big and to be rewarded for their efforts. Using StartupHomecare to build your agency will allow you to create whatever size territory you want and expand it whenever you so desire at no extra cost.
That's protection.
:: Opportunity
The idiom "you get out of it what you put into it" is particularly applicable to running your own business. Some business owners will be content to carve out a comfortable niche that suits their schedule and their lifestyle, while others will burn the midnight oil and reach for the stars. StartupHomecare helps you build your business in a way that fits your lifestyle. Perhaps you want to retain your full-time job and just work part-time in Homecare until your agency is making enought profit to quit your full-time employment? Perhaps you want to work 12 hr days 7 days a week? Franchises impose quotas or glass ceilings which restrict your growth and then penalize you for growing your revenue base with their ever increasing royalty fees. StartupHomecare allows you the priviledge of determining how hard you work and in turn allows you to put ALL the associated profits in your own pocket.
That's opportunity.
:: Experience
Many new homecare agencies go in and out of business in under a year because they are not built on the right foundation and do not know the tried and tested secrets of making it in today's competitive home care environment. Our agency startup program is designed to help get you through your critical first year and acheive maximum growth. Our founders have the hands-on homecare industry experience and knowledge of starting and running a sucessful homecare agency in a recession. Having started their own agency in 2007 at the beginning of the largest recession in 60 years and growing it into a million dollar company in two years the founders know what works and what doesn't.
That's experience.
