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tepping back into the office for the first time after 18 months, working from home within four walls and interacting with people over video meetings, it was the day we were recruiting for our new Business Development Executive. After conducting several interviews in one day, the challenge was shortlisting the right candidate for the role.

Starting a business can be very exciting, sometimes overwhelming and sometimes nerve-racking. With so much to do it can feel like you don’t know where to start, or where you’re going to finish.

Starting your own travel business with The Holiday Franchise Company is full of wonderful benefits. You can be your own boss; have limitless earning opportunities; and discover the world with brilliant trade only prices. But what about making a difference and giving something back?

Are you going to join a company where you will be lost in a sea of hundreds of other franchisees, so you are just a number or are you looking to join a company where you are known as an individual franchisee with individual needs?

I was asked this question at age 17 whilst interviewing for a role selling water coolers. I spent 15 minutes keenly explaining to the interviewer how a cheap-looking plastic biro would be the best thing they had ever bought.

So, this is a question for you. Had you been him and been watched by millions of people, relying on you, and you let them down, how would you have reacted?

With the challenging 18 months, we have all experienced many being in high demand as key workers, others losing jobs, businesses, and many parents working full time to save their businesses, alongside home-schooling their children

Listening to and understand your customer’s needs is critical to the success of your business. Our Head of Franchise shares her recent experience with a car brand, who didn’t and the impact it had

This is perhaps one of the most common phrases uttered in homes and businesses over the last 18 months as the world and his wife/granny/grandpa/uncle have turned digital in order to communicate with the outside world.

It feels cruel to quash someone’s dream, but I’d rather that than sell a false one. Sometimes picking up the phone to someone you don’t know can be a little daunting. Even more so if you feel like you’re going to be ‘sold to’.

So when it comes to starting a travel business, why would you want to pay to work for someone else and help build their brand? Why would you try to force the suit to fit? Why would you want to add value to their house?

As Head of Sales and Marketing, my job is to get our proposition seen by people interested in starting their own travel business, and then help educate them on how we might be able to help them be successful in doing this.

I’ve entered to run a 33-mile ultra-marathon in October. I’ve never run a marathon, so what made me do this? Well, it sort of comes to setting goals. How should you set goals? Should they be easily achievable or slightly out of reach?

My responsibility is for the growth of our company, so it could be easy to get blinkered by sales, easy to forget my responsibilities for ethical franchising, and just get anyone signed up to get numbers through the door.