Running a small building business is most often a family affair. Even if you are not on the tools, the business impacts family life in a lot of different ways - your own job, the kids, the house and everything that comes up in a busy modern life.
We also understand that when making big decisions for the family about taking on a new business, that you may have different questions that need answering so that you can feel you have all of the answers you need to be confident in moving ahead with a new opportunity, like a Stroud Homes franchise.
We are proud that our offices are family businesses, even if not on a day to day basis, the wives of our franchisees play a crucial role in their businesses. Some work full time in the business, some part time and other support from outside the business.
Julianne Stroud - Stroud Homes Brisbane South
Being the wife of a Franchise owner gives me a freedom that I know I wouldn’t have if I worked full time for someone else.
I always wanted to be a stay at home mum, but knew I also wanted to contribute to the household in some way. As the wife of a Franchise owner, I have been able to achieve both of these.
I do the Accounts Payable for our building company, and in the past was also doing data entry, filing, ordering supplies,and many other tasks as well as the account payments. It was hectic in those early days, getting the kids off to school and trying to fit a full time job into school hours, but as our business has grown, and we have been able to employ others, I now only work part-time, and much of that is from my own home.
Before we started in a Franchise, I was the one with reservations, I was concerned with what would be involved, and that it would be something more than I could handle - but I was soon able to see the benefits of all the systems that are in place to ensure that every task is someone's responsibility and every task has a time it is done and jobs flow smoothly through the system.
My story is a little different, for 5 years I was wife of a Franchise owner, and then we made a change and began our own building company. Three years later, we have franchised our brand, and I am still wife of a Franchise owner, but also wife of the Franchisor. I am Julianne Stroud, James' wife, and I can honestly say that the reason Stroud Homes began is because James is committed to making the building of new homes a better experience for as many builders as possible. He is determined that the builders in our franchise group will have all the help we wish we had when we were part of a different group, and will have all the systems needed to ensure smooth builds and happy customers.
I am still the Accounts payable manager for our Jimboomba Franchise, I still work from home most days, I have quality time with our school aged children and best of all, our weekends are our own