PIRTEK:
A Perfect Fit for First-Time Entrepreneurs
Does the dream
of owning your own business contain the glamour of a day spa,
a restaurant serving your favorite food, a coffee shop, ice
cream or something else that you enjoy and understand?
For many, a retail franchise is the answer to their dream.
However, there are other entrepreneurs whose interpretation
of a glamorous business is one that affords them the opportunity
to make it to their kid’s ball game and to be home nights
and weekends. Their dream does not include food, minimum wage
employees and retail customers; their dream is to have a business
they can work on and not in, to have a business where they
can work business hours and build a team around them that
will provide a valuable service, where they can build a successful
business that affords them the lifestyle that their dream
contains. The concept or franchise itself is not the dream
as much as it is a vehicle to help them realize their dream,
which is why PIRTEK, the world’s leading service provider
of ETA 1 Hour On-Site Hose Replacement, has become a viable
opportunity to consider.
“Our owners come from many walks of life, including
sales, management and business ownership; however, they all
share something in common in that they want to find a franchise
in which they can use the skills they have already learned
in their careers,” said Gwyn O’Kane, PIRTEK’s
vice president of franchise development. “They wish
to use those skills and reap the rewards of their efforts
for themselves and build equity in their own business.”
PIRTEK is an industrial-based business-to-business franchise
opportunity whose customers include companies involved in
manufacturing, construction, transportation, material handling,
marine and much more ranging from very large companies and
small "mom and pop" businesses. A typical PIRTEK
center will have its receivables spread across hundreds of
businesses in the area which is a healthy situation when dealing
with repeat business customers. PIRTEK provides these businesses
with hydraulic and industrial hose assemblies and other related
products both over the counter and on-site Its ETA 1 hour
on-site hose service means a company that is suffering downtime
as a result of a hose failure can call PIRTEK and have a technician
on site within an hour who can remove the failed hose, manufacture
a new hose in the van and re-install the hose right at the
job site.
“This service can dramatically reduce client downtime
and improve productivity and profitability. There is no other
franchise like us and even outside of the franchising world
there are very few companies that offer the service level
PIRTEK can offer,” said O’Kane. “PIRTEK
is not only number one in the United States but also number
one in the world in its field.”
On the day they open their new PIRTEK franchise, owners will
have a fully-equipped Hose Service Center, three mobile service
vehicles and trained employees. They will have three Mobile
Sales and Service Technicians (MSST) that will not only provide
the 24/7 mobile service, but will also be the franchise owner's
ground level sales force. These MSSTs will conduct sales calls
when not providing service. The franchise owner will also
start their business with an operations manager who will take
care of the trade counter, dispatching the MSSTs, inventory
control and the daily operations of the business. The fifth
employee a new franchise owner will start with is an office
administrator who will handle receivables, payables and the
administrative side of the business. It is this infrastructure
and the PIRTEK system that enables the franchise owner to
work on their business and not in their business.
“PIRTEK owners do not fix hoses on site or behind the
counter; they focus their time and skills on building a great
team of employees, managing a great business and, most importantly,
they focus the sales and marketing of their business at a
local level,” said O’Kane. “Eventually and
ultimately, they are going to build a team around them that
will take care of the PIRTEK customers and afford the franchise
owner their dream and the real ‘glamour’ of business
ownership: lifestyle!”
