Has anyone used Jim's Franchises?
How was your experience?
I'm looking to grow my IT Support side hustle
Was charging $100/hr with 20 customers so far
A major issue was sourcing regular work
Has anyone owned a Jim's franchise(especially Jim's IT) and can provide feedback?
Working on SEO and building my own website, posted on Facebook groups and it's always a surge in work for a week and dies off.
Probably need to generate some content about what you are doing each week. Hopefully generate personal recommendations from those who follow you
Hire someone or a business that knows Facebook ads. Facebook ads done right should bring you a predictable amount of new clients or jobs based on ad spend. And much better value than "boosting" a regular post. But if you don't set it up right then you are just pissing your ad spend in the wind. I wasn't paying attention once and spent $1000 on Facebook ads in India, which are much cheaper per impression and click actually, but the client got hundreds of random Indian people trying to interact with their business after they saw and interacted with the ad. I should have paid someone who knows what they are doing.
Any that will work for 1-2k a month including ad spend? I tried enquiring with some ad agencies and they told me 6k-20k a month minimum ad campaign spend which is more than I make from this in a whole year so far. SEO agencies are charging $200/hr
I should have paid someone who knows what they are doing.
Funny thing is, that's what the client said as well.
@Crow K: To be fair, it did generate many hundreds, maybe thousands, of Indians who were interested in her book. A lot of them couldn't write or read English from the looks of it though..
No 70s porno moustache… so no
Jim will probably take 50%, are you happy to work for $50 an hour?
I'm joking, but obviously Jim take a cut, this Reddit post may or may not be relevant
Only if he gets me triple the work
Or if you can hire someone to do most of the work for $30 an hour or so.
Yeah I looked into working for geeks2u a few years ago, they only pay $35/hr and bill $150/hr
no, he will charge you for a marketing course they also sell claiming you can get triple the work
Jim advertises on TV. The "Jim" brand is pretty big.
It's probably not a joke. I worked for geeks2u for a while and they took more than that.
Hire some marketers. Probably some really obvious stuff you aren't doing because you don't know to do it, or don't know how to do it right.
Do you know any who will work on 1-2k budget a month? I tried enquiring with some ad agencies and they told me 6k-20k a month minimum ad campaign spend which is more than I make from this in a whole year so far. SEO agencies are charging $200/hr
charging $100/hr with 20 customers
FIRE?
Yeah it's one of my side hustles
Most of the customers are one time, I recently moved an hour away so prefer to find new ones where I live
does jim gave a guaranteed income
no
There's plenty of interviews online of Jim. I'd watch some of them and decide if he's the sort of person you want to work for.
he's totally off the deep end
haha he seems a bit eccentric but seems to have built a big empire
Where is the nearest Jim's IT franchise to you? Do you get your own "patch"?
not sure, but you get your own patch or can buy from a previous patch franchise owner
Our friend had a Jim's mowing franchise a number of years ago. It was profitable and ther support and advertising from the company were good. You get your own patch, so only problems are with VIP or other operators.
When the drought hit, he kept going but switched to doing more watering system installation, so managed ok. Left in the end because of back problems and got a reasonable price for his patch.
How much is cut and fees?
No idea, but he made enough apparently. There was some upfront investment in the trailer, but that's all I remember.
I'm sure you can call and ask.
@Lastchancetosee Is that you Jim?
That's Jimbo to you.
Dont go Jims if your regional as they will line up work(a single job) too far from your home base like jobs a town or 2 over. Thats what a local who use to have a Jims said reakons he wasted a lot of money. He didn't say what he thought about city jims though but the local mower shop guy said in some Melbourne suburbs there are too many and are actually competing with each other.
I'm in Sydney
Not sure if it's same for IT
How much cut and fees is it?
I have a friend who had a Jim's franchise.
My advice would be to run away.
Especially as it doesn't appear to be your full time income.
He may be a bit eccentric, but he is ruthless. If you aren't making the money, there is no out, you just need to keep paying.
And if you get ill or anything and haven't organised wage insurance or anything like that, you still have to pay.
The support mechanisms they have in place are very poor for anyone who runs into trouble.
My friend did get ill and was hospitalised and they sicked the lawyers on to him with no lee way or support.
Effectively, you are on your own.
Stupid things too like if a customer rings through Jim's to get to you, you still get charged for the churn even if you already had them noted as an existing customer.
I saw a very happy competent man get beaten down and down till it broke him…. Ill say again, Run away man…
Enter any franchise with financial loss a distinct possibility. Also marital hell with your partner (will soon be ex-partner).
Spending a bucketload to buy a job? Insane.
They make more money selling franchises then paying guys to mow/do IT/circumcisions. Think about that for a second.
The moment you slip up, they'll take the franchise back, sue you, and sell the franchise to the next gullible soul. Rinse repeat.
Have you tried working on marketing and reaching out to your local community groups? I found my current pool guy through my local Facebook group for my suburb- coincidentally, he was a Jim’s pool guy, but I’ve been happy with the standard of work so kept him on doing regular pool clean and services.