Posts by Julia Michalik

Ladies – are you ready to leave your mark on your community as a business owner? Lately, more and more women are courageously taking their first steps to build their own businesses. As women-owned businesses are growing, so are franchises that give business owners the support and business model to achieve their goals. Before opening…

How It Started: The Shine Origin Story Chris Fisher’s Dad was an entrepreneur and ran his own business. Around the age of 12, Chris began to help his Dad, by washing windows. He never imagined that today he’d be the founder of Shine Window Care and offer franchise opportunities in the booming home and commercial…

Franchise opportunities are growing and have become a popular means of business ownership for women. Women own or co-own about 265,000 franchises, or approximately 35 percent of all U.S. franchise outlets, up from 24 percent a decade ago. From 2017 to 2019, the percentage of franchised businesses opened by women was even higher at 41…

Holland, Michigan – Shine Window Cleaning announces the opening of 3 new locations in the last three months with new franchises and existing owners becoming multi-unit franchise owners. Shine of Long Island (in Nassau County) owner Don Fahrbach recently expanded to serve Eastern Suffolk County, NY. Shine of Fenton, MI is the second location for…

Exciting job opportunities combined with Shine’s recruiting and hiring tools make it easy for Shine franchisees to attract and retain top talent, even in today’s tough job market. Hiring is never an easy task, and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding employees has become even more daunting. According to recent labor statistics, there…