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If you are looking to start your own business, an excellent way to minimize risk while increasing the odds of succeeding, is to consider opening a franchise.
  • Charles Franklin
  • 20,689 Reads 6 Shares
Capital access for franchisees has been a primary concern since the 2008 financial crisis.
  • Darrell Johnson
  • 4,180 Reads 3 Shares
John "JD" Draper simply looks like a leader. Maybe it's his dapper attire, mile-wide smile, and booming voice. Or maybe it's his decades long command of operating franchises.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,918 Reads 2 Shares
Online shopping has changed how consumers purchase airline tickets, shoes, music, and more. Now, according to a survey from EMN8, consumers want more of the same technology choices when it comes to ordering fast food.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 8,635 Reads 1 Shares
Success is something everyone wants but only a few achieve. However, it doesn't have to be that way.
  • Daniel C. Steenerson
  • 7,572 Reads 160 Shares
Social technologies provide a powerful collection of marketing tools, and they are inexpensive compared to other forms of marketing.
  • Scott Klososky
  • 4,637 Reads 96 Shares
When Jim Fitlow skis, he goes at it full tilt. In fact, one of his favorite quips is, "Turning is highly overrated."
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 7,782 Reads 126 Shares
Little has changed in health-related brands since last year's report. FRANdata still tracks 11 sectors across four industries: child-related, health and fitness, QSR, and retail food.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,283 Reads 206 Shares
When Cold Stone Creamery first showed up on his radar, Lloyd Sugarman knew it had great franchise potential years before the couple who started it were ready to grow.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 14,988 Reads 3 Shares
Who are your customers? Do you know what they want? Do you know what they think about you and your products and services?
  • John Tschohl
  • 4,545 Reads 50 Shares
What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies?
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,121 Reads 422 Shares
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The need for trust in the workplace and communication therein is understood by many leaders to be the foundational building block of the organization.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 3,458 Reads 101 Shares
There's an old adage on Wall Street: When someone says, "It's different this time," run as far and as fast as you can.
  • Carol Schleif
  • 5,729 Reads 25 Shares
As a youngster, Greg Cutchall watched his father and uncle struggle to make ends meet with their two A&W restaurants and told himself he would never go into that business.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,378 Reads
As a professional pilot, I meticulously pre-plan my flight including strong and continuous consideration and planning for the weather.
  • Moe Glenner
  • 5,143 Reads 9 Shares
One of the primary reasons organizations and companies go through the effort of developing a qualified team environment is to produce better decision-making that results in more positive outcomes.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 6,748 Reads 740 Shares
Putting the right people at the helm has launched many high profile, highly successful turnarounds, from Jack Welch in his early days at GE to Meg Whitman at eBay.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,561 Reads 6 Shares
Glenn Mueller is Domino's Pizza's largest single franchisee with 135 units. It's a partnership made in pizza heaven.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 18,154 Reads 12 Shares
If I know anything about franchisees, it's that they have lists for everything, from daily kitchen cleaning practices to employee entrance procedures.
  • Joe Durfey
  • 7,137 Reads 1,023 Shares
Lloyd Sugarman--Sugie, to his friends--is something of a "franchise whisperer." He sniffed out Coldstone Creamery as a concept with great franchise potential years before the couple who started it were ready to grow.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 9,462 Reads 1 Shares
We are experiencing a rare alignment of stars in the franchise finance world right now, and it's essential that operators act quickly to take advantage of this situation, before the party's over. To understand the current financing environment, let's take a look at the economic "big picture."
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 7,803 Reads
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For most of her 40-year career, Linda Read says she has had to work harder, be smarter, and produce better results than the men in her field
  • Helen Bond
  • 6,550 Reads 239 Shares
The role of the leader is to create a smooth operating and empowered organization that frees employees from obstacles and barriers to their personal productivity.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 4,182 Reads 57 Shares
The primary concern most fast food business and franchise owners encounter is the balance of front of the house demands and back of the house operations.
  • Layne Davlin
  • 6,740 Reads
When Tony Lutfi was asked back in 2009 where he'd like to be in five years, he said 100 units.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,864 Reads 1,020 Shares
The White House and IFA recently announced that 290,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired or trained in the franchise business since the launch of the White House Joining Forces initiative in 2011.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,647 Reads 34 Shares
In my 20-plus years of teaching and consulting with business owners and hiring managers about how to "hire tough so they can manage easy," I've discovered there are 10 commonplace mistakes almost everyone makes that are guaranteed to result in bad hiring decisions and waste untold time, money, and effort.
  • Mel Kleiman
  • 7,803 Reads 1 Shares
If President Obama decided to name an Ambassador of Franchising, John "JD" Draper, with his dapper attire, mile-wide smile, and booming voice would surely make the "short list" of top candidates.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,332 Reads 1 Shares
Managers are often task-oriented, and not necessarily focused on their employees. Leaders on the other hand are people-oriented;
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 7,154 Reads 533 Shares
A franchise is not an ordinary business asset. You don't really "own" a franchise outright as you do a traditional business.
  • Gerald Marks
  • 6,397 Reads 246 Shares
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