Entries by Emma Nicholson

Growing a team

Growing a Team   When building your Merry Maids business, you will need to build a skilful and loyal team to deliver professional cleaning services to your customers.   It’s important to choose employees carefully to be a part of your team as they represent your whole business and can help you keep customers, but can unfortunately help you to lose them […]

Getting the most from the Franchise

Getting the most from the Franchise  Being part of a franchise is a choice and every individual has their reasons for joining. There are costs to joining a franchise, but the benefits far outweigh these. Therefore, we recommend getting as much out of your franchise journey as possible.   Support   The support you can receive as a franchisee […]

The Advantages of Franchising

Advantages of Franchising  Franchising offers a great opportunity to go in to business for yourself, but not by yourself.   Plus, many other reasons that you may not have thought of.   Established Brand   For us, the brand is the sun. It’s at the centre of everything we do and everything we do radiates from it. For Merry Maids in particular, […]

Mental Wellbeing during Social Distancing & Self Isolation

With many of us perhaps feeling concerned, stressed or panicked by the current situation, we’ve put together a few ways of looking after your mental-wellbeing during these challenging times. The below is not medical advice but aimed to help a little as you face life’s current worries.   Connect with people   If you are in self-isolation, you may start to feel just that, isolated. What […]

Homeschooling from a Full Time Working Mum… How to Survive!

If like Vicky,  homeschooling wasn’t something that you had planned for, the below blog may be of use to you whilst you are trying to build your business and ensure your child/children gets the educational support that they need.  Written by Victoria Tayler, Commercial Marketing Manager and Full Time Mum  My name is Vicky, I am the […]

How to stay motivated working from home

Our Merry Maids franchise opportunity initially means the business owner can work from home in the early days to save on premises costs, so following these tips can help if you are not used to it! Tip #1 – Create An Office You may be tempted to sit on the sofa or lie in bed […]

Keeping Positive

In these unprecedented times, you, like many others around the world may be feeling a little low in spirits. Things may seem a little gloomy but there are rays of positivity shining through.   We’ve put together a little blog on some of the lovely things which we’ve seen in the last few days in the hope of sharing a little […]

Existing franchisee branches out in to Commercial Cleaning

Nick Rayner of Merry Maids Milton Keynes invests in a second ServiceMaster brand Having owned his very successful Merry Maids business for 15 years this May, Nick chose to further invest in the ServiceMaster family of brands by purchasing ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services Milton Keynes. His new business venture offers a range of commercial cleaning […]

National Franchise Exhibition 2020

National Franchise Exhibition 13th and 14th March 2020 Merry Maids are proud to be exhibiting at the National Franchise Exhibition at The NEC Birmingham on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th March 2020 Here at Merry Maids we are a huge fan of spreading the word and sharing the vision for our franchise opportunities. We strongly believe that the […]

Merry Maids – Top 100 Elite Franchise 2020

We are super proud to announce that Merry Maids are part of the Elite Franchise Top 100 Franchises for 2020 Elite Franchise Top 100 is all about celebrating superlative businesses across the UK. It recognises the sector’s brightest businesses and ranks them according to a broad range of criteria from their financial performance and heritage in […]

Merry Maids of Dudley go Stateside!

Merry Maids of Dudley go Stateside! | The ‘Dallen Peterson Franchisee of the Year’ award Franchisee of the Year is the most prestigious award and a pinnacle of achievement within the ServiceMaster franchisee network. It is awarded to one franchisee who has displayed the highest achievement in the pursuit of excellence and professional management in […]

Domestic Cleaning Services – All year round!

When going in to the realms of business for yourself, it’s important to ensure that there is enough demand for the services that you wish to deliver. Not only for the time being, but for the season, the year and for the future.  Merry Maids are a global domestic cleaning franchise, and have been established […]

The Merry Maids North Star Awards

Within our growing franchise network, we feel that it is necessary to reward our franchise owners for their efforts in business, including growth, reviews, charity, employees and general all round greatness! We take great pleasure in sharing with you our North Star Award categories and winners for 2017, recently presented at our Summer Regional Ceremony in June 2018. […]