The Advantaclean Business Model Provides Solutions To The Most Common Challenges

(Thursday, June 28, 2007) - Business consultants and potential investors agree that the most difficult businesses to own and operate are those with gross sales of less than $1 Million. The brutal facts reveal that these businesses lack the proper infrastructure to operation effectively, and rarely have sufficient resources to hire qualified people at all the right positions, namely sales, operations, finance, information technology, accounting, marketing and advertising, and general office management. At the end of the day, the business owner is forced to wear many, if not all, of these hats.

Jeff Dudan, President of AdvantaClean Systems, Inc., a service business franchisor, shares his insight.

"Many people start their own business because they posses strong technical skills and a desire to fulfill their dream of becoming a business owner. Unfortunately, that dream often turns into a nightmare. Bad advice, employee issues, misallocated time and money, and the general lack of access to meaningful information about their business can lead to long hours struggling just to keep a handle on things. They end up spending their time doing everything other than what they started the business to do in the first place."

AdvantaClean has invested years into building a model that business owners can follow and significantly reduce the variables that create the most common stumbling blocks.

Dudan continues: "The AdvantaClean business model provides solutions to the most common challenges facing our owners, including initial office staffing, marketing and advertising, information technology, telephone answering, and appointment booking. Our system allows a business owner to focus in the areas in which they are most gifted, while wrapping a framework around the flow of the business that results in greater control of operations, continuity in the flow of new business, and real-time franchise specific information for making key decisions, every single day."

Dudan and his team admit that they have learned from failure over the last 13 years. But each painful lesson led to the development of yet another important element of the model.

The company known today as AdvantaClean was originally founded in 1994, as a General Contractor specializing in the repair and reconstruction of insured property losses. The business got off to a quick start. As sales jumped to $2.7 Million, the Company was recognized in Entrepreneur magazine, in conjunction with Dun & Bradstreet, and ranked #33 out of 100 as one of the fastest growing small businesses in America for 1997.

"As you can imagine, the early days were very exciting and we were running as hard and fast as we could." continued Dudan, "Our trend was most definitely moving up and to the right with a bright future. We were quite full of ourselves."

However, it was not long before a pattern of problems materialized.

First, top line sales began to trend down, a trend that continued for the next several years. What had worked in the past to acquire business did not seem to work any longer, but they did not understand why.

Profits also seemed much thinner than one would expect. Price had been adjusted down in an attempt to win more business. Further, based on how the business operated, areas in which to reduce cost and cut expenses were not readily apparent.

Looking back now, 10 years later, the answers seem so simple.

"In reality, we just did not have the experience to diagnose the problems, we lacked the information to quantify the problems, and that ultimately resulted in a lack of confidence and some major riffs in the organization. We were frustrated and very stuck."

The truth is that most small business owners get "paralyzed" long before they reach this point.

The AdvantaClean business model is unique in that it creates an environment that discourages the very behaviors that make most small businesses suffer and fail.

Many people start their businesses by renting an office, hiring someone to answer the phone, and hiring someone else to answer the phones when the first person is not there. They acquire 3 or 4 phone lines, buy office furniture and equipment, and spend time on the development of marketing collaterals, selecting computers and software, and finding a banker to pay for all of the above. Then, if they have time, they go out and start developing business and generating revenue.

Sad but true.

Conversely, in the AdvantaClean business model, a start up business literally needs none of those items, or they are provided by AdvantaClean, and the owner can invest his precious capital in marketing and advertising to drive opportunities at their new business.

This can represent a savings of well over $100,000 in the launch of a new service business.

Dudan continues "The speed and quantity of information available today is mind numbing. There is so much distracting information in the marketplace that people who are looking for help starting a business, or fixing their existing businesses, have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff. Those who take the time to understand what we do and invest in our concept will benefit greatly and be the leading service providers of tomorrow."

The initial franchise fee for an AdvantaClean Systems, Inc. service franchise is $16,500.00, with financing available to qualified applicants. Franchise sales can be reached at 877.800.2382.

Jeff Dudan lives with his wife Traci and 3 children in Huntersville, North Carolina.

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