Franchise Articles

Mar 21, 2019

401(k) Business Financing: Why You Shouldn’t Rule...

A roadblock that we’ve been coming across recently with a number of clients is their CPA/Accountant advising them against using 401(k) financing (ROBS) to finance their franchise location. In...

Mar 18, 2019

When is it your problem?

You don’t have to spend long in management in a restaurant or retail business before having that uncomfortable experience of seeing an employee, usually a female, with unexplained bruises. The...

Mar 12, 2019

Staying Ahead of Accounting Rule ASC 606

In a move to standardize accounting practices further than is already being done by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the...

Mar 8, 2019

What to Do about Franchisee Litigation

It seems that every article about franchisee litigation opens with the author spending time on how you should find ways to avoid it. Certainly, fostering good franchise relations can ward off...

Mar 4, 2019

6 of the Best Franchise Business Opportunities

Franchising offers hard working business people and entrepreneurs a great opportunity. They can be their own boss when it comes to the day-to-day operations of their franchise, yet they can also...

Mar 1, 2019

Marketing to Millennials: They’re Who You Want at...

Within two years, fifty percent of the U.S. workforce will be millennials, seventy-five percent by the year 2030. They are driven, highly educated, and perhaps the most misunderstood demographic...

Feb 27, 2019

Why You Should Consider an Education Franchise

There are a lot different types of franchises with which you can make a living. In fact, you can often do more than simply make a living. You can make a good living. Just which type of franchise...

Feb 26, 2019

Site Selection Secrets for Franchise Tenants

You’ve likely heard the adage, “location, location, location”. The site that you choose to set up shop as a franchisee can – ultimately – spell success or failure for your business. Franchisors...

Feb 25, 2019

Master Franchises - The Basics

If you are interested in purchasing a franchise, you might have come across the term “master franchise”. Even if you already own a franchise, you might not know exactly what a master franchise...

Feb 22, 2019

Why You Should Consider a Spa Franchise

Spa franchise opportunities are becoming increasingly attractive to entrepreneurs and business people. But why is that? Of all the innumerable kinds of franchises one could buy, why are...

Feb 20, 2019

Do You Have Printing Franchises for Sale?

One of the most common questions that we at Be The Boss get asked is, “Do you have printing franchises for sale?”. What we say (after explaining that we ourselves don’t have a printing franchise...

Feb 19, 2019

6 Qualities You Need to Have to Become a...

The restaurant business works very well with the franchising business model. Both sit down restaurants and quick service restaurants (QSRs) alike have become some of the most famous franchises...

Feb 16, 2019

Financing a Franchise for $350,000 or Less

Franchises come in all sizes requiring a with a wide variety of capital and equipment needed to operate the business. This article is the first of a two-part series of articles offering an...

Feb 14, 2019

The Best Resources For Franchise Prospects:...

In all my years of public relations, running an agency that works with franchisors across the country and around the world, many assume all of our focus is getting client CEOs out front. In...

Feb 13, 2019

Searching for Opportunity in a Crowded Franchise...

Franchising is not some get rich quick scheme. Buying a franchise is not like buying a lottery ticket or even like buying stock in a company for the purposes of trading it later. It takes hard...

Feb 13, 2019

Why You Should Consider Franchising

There are few among us who can say they have never dreamed of being their own boss. Maybe it speaks to the individualistic nature of our society or perhaps it’s a near universal trait. Who wants...

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