Franchise Articles

Mar 11, 2013

How To Finance Your Franchise

The path to franchise ownership demands strategic thinking from the beginning. Signing on the dotted line isn't always as easy as raising a pen. Diligent assessment and comparisons need to be done...

Mar 11, 2013

Why You Need to Read Your Franchise Disclosure...

The Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) was developed to equalize the relationship between franchiser and franchisee. It prepares franchisees for the environment they are entering, their...

Mar 11, 2013

Are There Alternatives to Franchising?

Although we hear so much about franchising in today's business community, businesses actually have several ways to expand their marketing distribution channels. Franchising is just one method,...

Mar 11, 2013

Start a Business? Buy A Business? Buy a Franchise?

Making the decision to start your own business is probably one of the most difficult decisions you can make. But after deciding to start own business, you're left with a choice between starting a new...

Mar 11, 2013

How to Choose an Investment Manager

If you are expanding your franchise investments beyond a small portfolio, you may soon find that managing all of your investments takes more time than you can spare. Just tracking a few extra...

Mar 11, 2013

Five Useful Tools For Improving Your Bottom Line

It's crucial to properly track each expense and any corresponding revenue in a way that demonstrates the link between the two. There are many systems for recording your financial data for each...

Mar 11, 2013

Seven Tips for Hiring the Right People

Companies owning and operating a number of different franchise units will need to develop their own system for hiring quality employees. Hiring mistakes cost small businesses thousands of...

Mar 11, 2013

Eight Simple Tips for Grading a Franchise...

Choosing a new franchise brand to invest in can be very difficult if you aren't sure how to properly compare opportunities from vastly different industries. Look for some of these eight...

Mar 11, 2013

Training Your Employees Right The First Time

You have secured a location and signed an agreement with your franchise company. Now, the next challenge faces you - finding and training the employees you need for successful operation. Well-trained...

Mar 11, 2013

Keeping Your Hourly Workers Engaged

The importance of happy and hard working employees can't be overlooked. The people who work at the base level of your business are the ones serving customers and handling the most important...

Mar 11, 2013

Learning About Social Media For Franchisees

Most marketing gurus will remind you over and over again that social media networks are the key to success in this modern age. However, they often forget to highlight the differences between the...

As Art Imitates Life, so does International...

Or is it the other way around? Regardless...these past few months I have had the need to become more physically active as my relationship with the scale had been, well, on the upswing. Having...

Dippin’ Dots' Growth Makes A Top Franchise...

Dippin’ Dots, LLC, the beaded frozen treat and flash-frozen ice cream maker, enjoyed double-digit growth over 2016, with total sales of the core ice cream products privately held by the company...

Auto-Lab Complete Car Care Center Franchise...

Auto-Lab Complete Car Care Centers is moving forward with its Southeast Michigan expansion plans with a new store that has just opened in the township of Waterford in the Great Lake State. The...

A Case for Competition...

I’ve worked with hundreds of people exploring business ownership, and there are some common thinking patterns, errors actually, that I come across regularly. One has to do with “the...

Technology At A Price

The technology available to bricks and mortar retailers and restaurants that utilize location modeling and site analysis for development and marketing, has taken a significant step forward....

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