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January 15, 2016

What is Your Top Professional Goal? Throughout your lifetime, you're often asked about goals – both personal and professional. Whether lofty or quite realistic, we're asked where we would like to be in five years, in ten, and so on. Then it's up to us to put smaller steps into place in order...

January 8, 2016

Questions to Ask Yourself About Franchising When getting into any career, it's important to get a feel your surroundings. Before jumping in, you want to know what you're getting yourself into, what might arise, and virtually any type of scenario that might take place. It's simply a step for good bu...

January 4, 2016

7 Underrated Benefits to Being Your Own Boss Almost anyone who has ever worked a part-time job has wished they were their own boss. At some point or another. Each time they were asked to sweep the floor or mop up a customer accident, they wanted for someone else to handle the dirty work. Instead of...

December 23, 2015

8 Tips for Starting a Franchise in the Winter Though business may speed up as the weather cools, it's often seen as a slow time of year for starting new business. Real estate essentially comes to a standstill. New locations wait until spring to open, and any forward progress on up and coming ideas...

December 21, 2015

Free Business Tools to Take Advantage of From Your Franchising Brand There's a reason that people that franchise. They want to branch out with businesses that work. To start up new locations of peoples' favorite things. A name (and logo) that customers recognize, along with a successful plan, then...

December 11, 2015

8 Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Business Model Franchising is very much a customizable process. Though each location comes with its own brand, its own name, and its own set up (along with a few others), how day-to-day operations are ran – all are absolutely up to you. That is, aft...

December 1, 2015

7 Franchise Mascots That Are More Famous Than Their Brands Mascots are a great way to promote franchise businesses. They're a marketing tactic that keeps a brand instantly recognizable, while appealing to a larger audience all in one fluid swoop. For instance, enticing hungry kids with Ronald McDon...

November 30, 2015

Imperative Franchising Skills One of the biggest reasons people abstain from buying their own business is skill level. They say they “don't know how” to run a business. Or that they “don't know what they're doing.” A lack of confidence that is often misplaced. Because, more...

November 20, 2015

9 Little Promoted Perks of Franchising In the world of franchising, there are several well-known perks. Very real ideals that entice many into opening up their own business. They're also the same positive factors that everyone knows about. Ones that are frequently written over, celebrated in the new...

November 16, 2015

­­Up-and-Coming Franchise Ideas Worth Looking Into. At some point in their life, virtually everyone has thought they had a million-dollar idea. An invention or unique service that the world had always been looking for – but maybe didn't know they needed. In actuality, however, very few of thos...

November 6, 2015

Ongoing Education: 5 Tips for Learning the Franchise Business. Graduation is not a final state. It might mean we're done with a certain level of education or have met specific goals, but the learning itself is always ongoing. No matter how many times we wear flat black hats and shake hands to pomp...

November 3, 2015

Tips from seasoned franchise owners. Experience is something that can only be gained with time. By the very definition of the word, it's not a trait that can be fudged or sped along. The longer you do something, the better you become at doing it. That's a statement that doesn't bring shock or value,...

November 2, 2015

Top Struggles Seasoned Franchise Owners Had as a Newbie Experience is something that can only be gained with time. By the very definition of the word, it's not a trait that can be fudged or sped along. The longer you do something, the better you become at doing it. That's a statement that doesn't br...

October 23, 2015

Why Franchising From Home Works The idea of working from home can sound like a dream situation. Where you can roll out of bed and into the office, without so much as tying your robe. Some, however, consider it more of a nightmare, and prefer the routine of getting up (and dressed) and heading into w...

October 15, 2015

Franchisee Success Story: Meg of Dickey’s Barbeque Meg Heintzelman knows good barbeque when she sees it. Or rather, when she smells it. And as the owner of a Dickey’s Barbeque restaurant and developer for the state of Pennsylvania, it’s a fact she has yet to forget. “You ca...

October 9, 2015

Survey Says: People Are More Likely to Avoid Companies Who… In an ideal business scenario, everything would as planned. A product is received or service rendered in a timely fashion … without any hiccups. Everyone is friendly, follows through as they should, and there are no last-minut...

October 2, 2015

10 Ways to Perform Market Research Online … for Free So you're thinking of starting a franchise. Great – amazing – awesome job, and an entire slew of well wishes. Branching out into one's own business is one of the best, most important decisions we ever make. It can change the tra...

September 25, 2015

Is it Time to Franchise with a Second Brand? You’ve done it. Congratulations. You ventured out into business ownership, you started a company, and you’ve been very successful at it. So what’s next? Hone your brand and continue to expand? Maybe start up a second (or third or fourth)...

September 18, 2015

When is the Best Time to Buy a Business? If we’ve learned anything from used car salesmen over the years, it’s that there’s always a “right” time to buy. A right time to buy from the seller, and an even more right time for them to profit. Really, the seller is almost...

September 11, 2015

How Franchises are Innovating by Going Green When business is constantly competitive (and it generally is), corporate and marketers alike look for ways to get ahead. That often means getting into trends and gimmicks – whether or not they're relevant to the company. Those who can successfully b...

September 4, 2015

How to Sell an Unknown Brand and Build a Market One of the biggest rules in franchising is to not oversaturate a market. If there are already 10 pizza shops in town, chances are you don’t need another pizza shop. No matter how unique its premise may be or how many thousands of toppings can be...

August 28, 2015

8 Hidden Perks to Business Ownership When sitting down to make any decision, an informed citizen looks at all sides. They point out the good, the bad, and even the ugly, and then they use those variables to make the smart decision. The one that holds the most perks, eliminates the most cons, and mak...

August 21, 2015

Money Basics: What Pros you Need to Talk to and Why Numbers are a gift – some of us are born with the ability to use them, others read them as if they were a foreign language. Math is a seemingly natural trait that, like so many other talents, was either given to you or it wasn't. But on eith...

August 11, 2015

As a wise Jedi once said, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” With the wave of a hand, his statement was turned into truth. And much like Star Wars, franchising comes with its own set of problems – ones that are likely solved in the heat of the moment, or taug...