America’s Swimming Pool Co. Owner Units First-12 months Gross sales File in Tennessee

America’s Swimming Pool Co., the nation’s premier swimming pool cleansing, restore and renovation franchise, honored franchise proprietor Nick Carver with each the Multi-Unit Franchise Owner Award and the Best New Start Award at its annual Owners Convention and Awards Gala. Carver earned recognition for his management as a multi-unit proprietor, whereas his America’s Swimming Pool Co. location in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was acknowledged for its robust first-year efficiency.

Carver got here to franchising with a expertise background and years of company gross sales expertise. He had lengthy been fascinated with computer systems, even studying easy methods to construct them, and spent seven years in gross sales at Dell earlier than changing into a franchisee. In 2017, he and his household moved from Tennessee to Florida to open their first America’s Swimming Pool Co. location in Panama City. The location was one among 17 new America’s Swimming Pool Co. places to open that yr and earned the identical Best New Start award that Carver later gained for his Murfreesboro location. 

When he moved again dwelling to Tennessee to open Murfreesboro in 2025, he adopted the identical playbook from America’s Swimming Pool Co. that gave him a lot success the primary time round and broke a brand new first-year gross sales report.

“What’s great about the America’s Swimming Pool Co. franchise is they already have the systems and the processes, and you just need to follow them,” Carver stated. “That’s part of it. But then another part of it is how hard you are willing to work for it. I just followed the same systems and tools we had set up at the Panama City location. And of course, in the nine years that I’ve been in the America’s Swimming Pool Co. system, I’ve learned a few other strategies.”

Taking What He Learned About Hiring to Murfreesboro

At the Murfreesboro location, Carver made a degree of being considerate about who he employed. When he began out in Panama City, he was in search of individuals with trade expertise, however that turned out to not all the time be the very best match. 

“When you bring people like that in, you’re not necessarily building upon your own values and the people that you want to be around in terms of culture and attitude,” Carver stated. “When I finally learned that you could find those attributes in people and then just teach them the skills, I saw that you have a much better success rate in terms of retaining those employees and having longer tenure.” 

That method has helped Carver acquire traction quicker in Tennessee. He has additionally spent a whole lot of time getting processes and procedures in place, equivalent to key efficiency indicators that measure the well being of the enterprise, and constantly reviewing them.

“It’s almost like if you’re a pilot in an airplane and you’ve got all your barometers in front of you, it tells you if you’re going up in business or going down. And it’s super important,” Carver stated. “I think a lot of franchises miss that point. You have to do your monthly report and plug the numbers in and check on your business metrics and KPIs.”

Scaling Faster the Second Time

That deeper understanding of the numbers and stronger hiring selections helped Carver’s Murfreesboro location ramp up quicker than his first enterprise. While his Panama City location took a number of years to achieve robust profitability, his second location is on a faster trajectory due to the expertise he gained alongside the way in which.

“I would probably attribute that to my business acumen and just constantly learning, listening to podcasts, reading books, never letting up and always striving to learn more,” he stated. “Great businesses are not built overnight. It takes time.”

Carver has additionally leaned extra into expertise to proceed enhancing effectivity throughout his enterprise. He is utilizing the abilities he discovered in his earlier profession in expertise to search out methods to raised leverage information to offer his workforce a clearer view of efficiency.

“I’m working on integrating all of our tools into one single pane of glass,” Carver stated. “And my management team is going to have visibility to this. They’re going to be able to see their KPIs daily, how many maintenance accounts we’ve signed up, how many we’ve lost, our call reports, and how many positive and negative phone calls we’ve gotten.”

Building on Experience to Drive Results

Carver’s efficiency in Murfreesboro and expertise in Panama City are what earned him each the the Multi-Unit Franchise Owner Award and the Best New Start Award at this yr’s conference. Building on what he discovered in Panama City and making use of it with extra self-discipline the second time round, he grew and set a brand new customary for first-year efficiency throughout the system.

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