November 2012
| Business World Magazine | 75
successful.”
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
By leveraging the experience and resources
he gained in setting up 1-800-GOT-JUNK?,
Scudamore was able to design a successful
franchise system for 1-888-WOW-1DAY!
Painting right away. He knows that his fran-
chise partners cannot grow their business
on their own. They need support, and that’s
what they get.
“
We’re there doing everything we
possibly can to help people grow their busi-
nesses,” he says. “We help themmanage their
profitability, teach them how to find great
people, teach them how to train their teams
–
there’s a lot of moving parts. We’re there
through our manuals, our training programs
and our on-going field support to provide
that direction and ensure our franchisees are
successful as they can be.”
Moving
forward,
1-888-
WOW-
1
DAY! Painting is poised to build one of
North America’s next great service brands.
They currently have 15 active franchises,
with three more deals being finalized. They
have aggressive goals for growth – in a year’s
time Scudamore expects that number to be
closer to 50. In five years, he predicts the
business will be a $100-million brand and a
leader in the residential painting space.
“
The business is growing even faster
than 1-800-GOT-JUNK? did in the early
days,” he says. “It’s a really cool feeling. We’re
getting people excited about our vision of
what we’re building, and we know that the
possibilities are endless.”