Starting a Home Care Business: Yes, You’re Still Considered an Entrepreneur if You Buy into a Home Care Franchise
What does it mean to be an ‘entrepreneur?’ The term itself has been commonly used to portray all types of individuals, but at its very core, an entrepreneur is a person who seeks to start their own business, who may be innovative, and who is looking to provide some type of product or service to a specific set of clients. So, even though you may be looking to buy into and own a home care franchise, does that still make you an entrepreneur?
Is that the most important factor to you?
Some people want to think of themselves as entrepreneurs. It certainly has a hip and trendy connotation to the term, but is that term all that important in the long run? Absolutely not.
When somebody is looking to get into the home care sector, they should have a true and genuine desire to help elderly and disabled men and women during a very vulnerable time, and provide them an opportunity to remain at home, where they are likely the most comfortable.
Whether or not your family or friends, the general public, or others even consider you an entrepreneur because you’re starting a franchise (rather than building your own agency or other business from scratch) that shouldn’t make a difference in this endeavor. Your focus will be on providing the best support and service to those clients who need it most.
Yes, though, technically you will be considered an entrepreneur. However, unlike some entrepreneurial ventures, you will have to follow a strict set of rules and expectations set forth by the franchise company. This may not provide you the kind of flexibility and creative spirit you have naturally instilled in you. This doesn’t mean the company is going to deny permission for certain ventures, but as their name is attached to this particular home care agency, or franchisee, the company itself (corporate, as it were) will have the final say.
Focus on the opportunity, not the terminology.
Some people get caught up in terminology and they miss out on the opportunity. If you are presented with a wonderful opportunity with a quality franchise company to get into the home care sector, the number one job creator in the country (and it’s expected to stay that way for at least another 10 or 12 years, at a minimum), focus on that.
Opening a home care franchise will provide a potentially life changing experience and opportunity, but it will also provide seniors and disabled adults throughout your community an opportunity to remain at home and receive the care and support they may desperately need right now.
If you have questions about franchise opportunities with Golden Heart Senior Care Franchise, please contact our office at 1-800-601-2792, or check out our form at https://goldenheartfranchise.com/apply-now/.