Autovaletdirect West Midlands

At Autovaletdirect (West Midlands), Shaun provides a professional mobile car valeting / cleaning services that will leave your car in near showroom condition at less than you might expect.

Autovaletdirect in the News Daily Mirror July 2008

Rest assured that your vehicle is in safe hands with the most experienced UK network of car valeting specialists there is. We believe in leading by example and that is why, in order to ensure that your vehicle is valeted to Autovaletdirect’s exacting standards, we only use fully trained franchisees using the finest products with state of the art equipment. If you are looking for a professional car valeting company then why not take advantage of our expert car Valeting Services and call Shaun today.

Shaun in the Daily Mirror Newspaper Mon 14th July 2008

Services: click here for a Service Valet on your vehicle in the West Midlands

If you are looking for a professional car valeting company then why not take advantage of our professional services today and contact Andrew today on 0800 0834 683

Andrews motto is “Customer satisfaction is our highest motivation”

 

AutoValetDirect franchisee: Shaun Kinsell - West Midlands

Why I chose franchising

I liked the concept of franchising and realised its potential as a route into business start-up for me. The main elements I identified as being beneficial were - proven sales, tried & tested work ethics, and the support & back up.

What I did before taking up a franchise

Before buying my franchise I was a HGV Lorry Driver / Shunter Tug Driver.

How I raised the finance

I raised the finance from an investment I had made when I was younger, with the remaining balance coming from a business loan.

The training and support I receive from my franchisor

I have received excellent training and support. This has included:

 

• One week field training with an established franchisee
• Meeting of suppliers face to face
• Full explanation of operations manual
• 4 days personal support within area of franchise
• Data base from AutoValetDirect & suppliers
• 24 hour contact numbers & 24 hour manned call centre
• Day-to-day contact
• Good achievable business plan

The challenges I have faced

The biggest challenge for me was breaking away from the mundane Friday afternoon payslip, and the learning process required to start my own franchise. Paper chain delays from the Bank (they honoured all agreements) were also challenging.
My advice to someone thinking of buying their first franchise

My advice to someone thinking of buying their first franchise

• Do thorough research
• Get full backing from family
• Make sure it’s what you want to do
• Get reports on contract from a franchise solicitor
• Check they are bfa members
• Can you fund the project & how
• Go into the venture with a clear head
• Good achievable business plans
   

My plans for the future

I plan to expand my territory to become a multi-franchise operator for AutoValetDirect.

About Autovaletdirect UK Ltd

Autovaletdirect UK Ltd were formed in 1985 offering mobile car valeting services to private and trade alike, throughout the UK.  We have formed successful partnerships with your local area car dealers, to supply our mobile car valeting services for their new and used car preparation; to help dealers to achieve high quality and effective pricing for their stock, due to our expertise in vehicle preparation.

We felt this unique mobile car valeting service should be available to the general public, so we went about researching how this could be done in the most safe and professional way possible.

Our first mobile car valeting concept became very successful around Maidstone and Medway in fact one of the main reasons we succeeded, is at the time we were the only Mobile car valeting company armed with mobile phones which seems unthinkable in this day and age.

Over the next twenty years and eight vans later we fine-tuned our mobile car valeting concept using our knowledge and customer demands to create the unique mobile car valeting service we have in place now.

We made the decision to leave behind the safety, security and regular income of main dealer contract valeting and put all our time and effort into franchising our concept across the UK

In June 2004 we were approached by Jewelultra Limited to offer our experience in the Middle East with a view to helping them with the training in the use of their products while putting our successful mobile car valeting systems in place. There was an increase in the standard and efficiency for the dealers concerned, which I quote “resulted to levels well above their initial expectations” click here

Due to the on going success in the Middle East we have recently had some interest in our mobile car valeting franchise system and are now looking in to the possibility of Autovalet Direct becoming active in this part of the world. 

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