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The Interview: What the Franchisor Should Ask You

The questions a franchisor asks you in the initial phone interview reveal a lot about their motives and values. Listening carefully, and asking your own questions, can help you find a franchisor partner who understands that their success depends on yours - and avoid those who don't.

Eddy Goldberg
115,502 Reads 134 Shares

Customize It!: 6 Brands Tackle Consumer Marketing Challenges

When Scott Hilary arrived at Monster Tree Service in 2014, its website was almost primitively basic: one paragraph and one photograph. With that level of online marketing, it's no surprise that the company had just a handful of franchisees.

Sara Wykes
4,294 Reads 10 Shares

The Interview: What You Should Ask the Franchisor

You've gone online and filled out the initial qualification form and cleared the first hurdle. Now it's time for that first phone call with the franchisor, where the communication goes from one-way emails to a two-way conversation with questions and, you hope, answers.

Eddy Goldberg
152,752 Reads 126 Shares

Preparing For First Contact With A Franchisor

You get only one chance to make a first impression. So does the franchisor. That's why, after selecting which franchise brands to investigate, it's so important to evaluate the franchisor's response at every point of contact.

Eddy Goldberg
60,074 Reads 20 Shares

How To Create A Business Plan

Anyone who's thinking about starting a new business is going to need to create a business plan. Why? Well banks and lenders require one for starters. But also because business plans are one of the crucial foundations for the beginnings of a business. And the franchising industry is no different.

Kerry Pipes
57,469 Reads 2 Shares

A Couple of Winners: Husband-and-Wife Team Make Business a Family Affair

Todd and Audra Fetter, winners of the 2017 MVP Influencer Award for a Husband & Wife Team, have always had a team approach to marriage, but the decision to become hands-on franchisees has changed the playing field for communicating as a couple.

Helen Bond
12,722 Reads 40 Shares

Current Trends in Franchising

Franchising has matured since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. First-day sales at that restaurant were $316.12. In 2016, McDonald's annual sales topped $24.6 billion at nearly 37,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries -- with about 84 percent of those stores owned by franchisees. Daily sales per franchised store today? You do the math!

Eddy Goldberg
93,259 Reads 25 Shares

The Costs Involved in Opening A Franchise

You have to spend money to make money. So the old saying goes. In franchising you can spend a lot or a little, and still make money. Once you've decided 1) that you want a franchised business, and 2) what industry segment you'd like to work in (fast food, home repair, pet care, etc.), it's time to determine what you can afford. Your "budget" will limit your choices.

Eddy Goldberg
401,192 Reads 326 Shares

What is Franchising?

Franchising is a business model that combines the best aspects of sole proprietorship and Corporate America. It can be described as a "hybrid" model that fills the gap between working for somebody else (whether a large corporation or a small business) and working for yourself.

Eddy Goldberg
592,517 Reads 11 Shares

Cyber Security: It Can'T Happen Here (Umm, Yes It Can!)

While the threat of that particular attack appeared to be subsiding a few days later, variations were still a possibility--and new, future attacks are a certainty, whether from state-sponsored hackers, cybercriminals, or teenagers out to impress their friends.

Eddy Goldberg
5,733 Reads 28 Shares

4 Ways To Create More Multi-Unit Developers

Looking for more multi-unit operators? Here's how!

Kay Ainsley
3,479 Reads 3 Shares

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2017 AFDR Highlights: Franchisors Exceeding Their Goals

This series, featuring highlights from the 2017 Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR), continues with a look at franchisors that exceeded their goals, by category.

Eddy Goldberg
2,728 Reads

From One to Many: Helping your Operators Multiply their Growth

A typical multi-unit agreement provides to the developer the right (and obligation) to open a certain number of units according to a specified timetable within a defined territory.

Kay Ainsley
2,800 Reads 1 Shares

How To Help Your Operators Multi-Ply Their Growth

Want more multi-unit growth in your system? Try these four tips!

Kay Ainsley
2,536 Reads

CMO Roundtable: Planning Marketing Strategies and Tactics in 2017

Since joining Always Best Care in August 2015, my primary focus has been to overhaul the brand. In 2016, our major marketing objective was to build the brand's overall marketing platform and system.

Franchise Update
4,923 Reads 1 Shares

2017 Marketing Plan Changes: Always Best Care Senior Services

Larry Miramontes, VP of Marketing at Always Best Care Senior Services, dishes on 2017 changes to the brand's marketing strategies and tactics.

Larry Miramontes
3,146 Reads

Drive It Like You Stole It: Putting Yourself in Your Candidate's Shoes

I live in Detroit. I've been a car guy longer than a franchise guy. I go to lots of car events and see lots of event t-shirts. A few years back a new t-shirt arrived with the words, "Drive It Like You Stole It" across the back.

Jim Bender
2,810 Reads 1 Shares

Shopping for Improvement

Franchisee recruitment is the cornerstone of any successful brand. It must be done right. It requires the right team, the right information, the right prospects, and the right follow-up.

Kerry Pipes
5,330 Reads 2 Shares

Good News! - January 2017

So many good things are happening so quickly in franchising these days, it's hard to keep up (even for us!). So welcome to "Good News!" - our monthly roundup of franchise growth, finance, international expansion, milestones, and other positive news from franchisors large, medium, and emerging.

Eddy Goldberg
4,041 Reads

Through the Looking-Glass: Brexit's Impact on Investing Still to Come

In the wake of a vote to exit the European Union, U.K. citizens made it clear shot that "status quo" was no longer acceptable.

Carol Schleif
20,320 Reads

The Vetting Process: 4 Questions To Ask Every Potential Franchisee

Four essential questions to ask prospective franchisees.

Marc Collopy
10,818 Reads 57 Shares

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Increase Your Profitability

Unit-level economics (ULE) is the latest fancy phrase for the fundamental concept of franchisee profitability. The old-school franchise concept of caring only about a monthly sales report and a royalty check and, if the franchisee was not profitable, reselling the territory in 18 months is dead.

Rod Bristol
28,141 Reads 1,021 Shares

2017 AFDR: It's Benchmarking Time!

Results from the 2017 Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR) were unveiled in late September at the 18th annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference in Atlanta.

Eddy Goldberg
6,057 Reads 4 Shares

Multi-Brand Operator Finds Perfect Work-Life Balance

Pedro Giorgana loves being a home-based franchisee of A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections and iHandyMan. He has time for his family and personal life and still gets to work with and assist his customers daily. It's been a rewarding and successful blend for him.

Multi-Unit Franchisee
35,452 Reads 5 Shares

STAR Lights!: Honoring the Best in Franchise Recruitment

Each year, in the run-up to the annual Franchise Leadership & Development Conference, franchise brands that pre-register can choose to have themselves mystery shopped by a team of sales and lead generation experts.

Debbie Selinsky
6,024 Reads

How's Your Sales Presentation? Put Yourself in Your Candidates' Shoes!

Is your franchise development presentation full of holes? Jim Bender, who reviews them for a living, challenges you to "read it like you bought it."

Jim Bender
2,650 Reads 1 Shares

Power Pumper!: Creativity Fuels Sunny Ghai's Multi-Brand Organization

For Sunny Ghai, the key to multi-brand franchisee success is creativity. The founder of family-owned Ghai Management Services operates 7 brands, including 60 Burger Kings in 4 states.

By Helen Bond
30,099 Reads 2 Shares

Founded in Love: Necessity was the Grandmother of This Brand

Shelly Sun, co-founder of BrightStar Care, never planned to start a company. But in 2001, she and her husband, J.D. Sun, were struggling to find quality in-home care for his grandmother and discovered they weren't alone.