Almost two years ago, Yvette Adams did a story with the Daily about how to balance work and family time while operating a business from home.
Among her tips for making it work were “templates save time†and “procedure manuals for staffâ€.
She might not have known it then, but those were the very seeds of the franchise tree that is just now beginning to sprout from the ground.
Ms Adams’ business, The Creative Collective – an agency that offers PR, marketing, graphic design, print and IT services, has just been launched as a franchise, perhaps the only one of its kind in Australia.
“One of my contractors actually approached me about it and she is a few months in with the first franchise now, down in Newcastle,†she said.
“She’s working on it two days a week at the moment, but will move to full-time soon because she’s already earning what she would in a full-time role.
“Some of our other contractors have developed to a point where they want to take things a step further and they see the benefits of leveraging their time by sub-contracting people like I have.
Photo: Michaela O’Neill.
