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November 7, 2016

Will You be a "Good" Boss?  It's perhaps every new business owner's fear: will you be a good boss? Will you be successful at managing others and getting them to work efficiently? If you've never been a boss before – or even if you have, but just not for yourself – this can be a ver...

November 1, 2016

How to Use Your Experience in Your Favor Your past jobs can offer you an incredible amount of support when you're the business owner. No matter what type of job(s) you've had, you can bring what you learned into your business and you can apply that knowledge to your new business. You need to be abl...

October 26, 2016

9 Old School Lessons We Still Use in Franchising Today Sometimes, when it's not broken, it's best not to fix it. That's a motto that saves time and energy in all types of work situations. However, rather than just being something to avoid, why not also use that motto as something to return to? When...

October 19, 2016

8 Concept Franchises That are Making it Big There's a fine line between making it big, and doing something off the wall. That's a reality that business models have taught us throughout the years – that there is no such thing as a "sure thing," there is only a such thing as hard work and market...

September 22, 2016

7 Tips for Finding Your Best Franchise Fit Once you've decided to make the trek into franchising, chances are there are several decisions you already have under your belt. For instance, the choice to run your own business, to become your own boss, and to work with a competitive brand in order to wo...

September 15, 2016

Can you Franchise While Keeping Your Current Career? Often times, franchisees decide to open their own businesses after retirement. Maybe they are phasing out of a job, or are seeing their current position come to an end. For whatever reason, they're going through a professional transition, and fra...

September 13, 2016

10 Modern Technologies That Make Franchising Easier New electronics and availabilities are constantly emerging. There's no denying that inventions and updates of how things are done have been able to streamline business as we know it today. Changes that continue to make life easier when dealing per...

September 1, 2016

New Franchisee Opens With Dickey's Barbeque Pit Franchising had been something that soon-to-be business owner, Deyong "Roy" Wen had been thinking pursuing for some time. He'd been toying with the idea of starting his own restaurant location, he said, and had been spending time gathering information...

August 19, 2016

10 Lessons to Learn From Famous Inspirational Quotes You know the kind – the quote you read or hear and think, "Wow, that is so on the nose." Even if it's not applicable to you that second of the day, the words are memorable, and come with first-hand experience behind them. When you stop to t...

August 16, 2016

How One Company is Celebrating Franchisee Creativity and Gaining in the Process  Most often when we think of franchising, we think of a static set of rules. Franchise businesses that perform X, Y, and Z, and do so over and over again to achieve the same growing results. And sure, a few things...

July 8, 2016

7 Franchises That Picked a Crowd Favorite and Went For It. Don't mess with perfection, right? That's the exact motto of these franchises that took something classic, that the majority of the population has known and loved for years, and they turned it into a business. Their success is a great rem...

June 23, 2016

The Importance of Continuing Education as a Franchise Continuing education. Night classes. Online credits. Test hours. Learning conferences – do any of these sound familiar? If you've considered upping your professional ed game, chances are you've heard one or all of these terms. The industry...

June 16, 2016

How to "Turn Off" the Work Day, Even When You're the Boss No matter what amount of responsibility you might hold on your shoulders, it's hard to completely block out the day when jumping from work, to your personal life, and vice versa. Inevitably, there is something that reminds you of something e...

June 10, 2016

Business Lessons You Can Learn From Outside the U.S. Borders What's in a business plan? And where do those same plans come from? It's a set of questions that, when asked of 100 people, might garner 100 different answers. From a more straightforward standpoint, however, the answers are a little more...

June 2, 2016

6 Tips When Following Your Gut in Business Following your gut or going by the books – it's an age-old question in business. And the former is one that doesn't gain much clout among professionals. For the most part, it's considered a step that should be avoided, and only used when there are st...

May 26, 2016

8 Tips for Separating Office and Home For anyone looking into purchasing and running a home-based business, it’s likely all you can think of are perks. You’ll get to work from home! You can set your own hours! You can get in 40 hours (or more or less, depending on the nature of your nee...

May 12, 2016

5 of the Most Memorable Franchise Owners and What We Remember Them For Just like mascots or figureheads, company owners can make a strong impression on their customers. We remember who a person is, what took place under their tenure, and more often than not, those very moves have an impact as to ho...

May 5, 2016

Should You Work With Family? There's an ongoing stigma about working with family members. That, for the most part, it's frowned upon. There are even thousands of horror stories of why it shouldn't be done, what can go wrong, and why, essentially, it can threaten your business and your family relati...

April 27, 2016

Franchise Trends That Grew in 2015 Over time, businesses must adapt in order to stay relevant, and in order to stay profitable. Technology was a huge trend and upgrade for companies in recent times, including online sales, doing away with traditional catalogs, and more. But it's not always existing...

April 20, 2016

8 Leadership Tactics That Will Help You Do Better in Business Throughout the years, the world has seen a number of great leaders. Those who did amazing things, and those who did terrible ones. What they all managed to have in common, however, is that they led those others and got them to follow the...

April 11, 2016

Up-and-Coming Tasks to Put on Your Work List Before Opening Your First Business A to-do list is one of the best ways to keep track of what you need to do, as well as what's been completed. Besides, it's just plain satisfying to scratch off a task once it's finished – letting yourself know it'...

April 4, 2016

How Much Do You Know About the Franchise World? It takes all kinds – in business and in any aspect of life. There are those who are good at math, those who have incredible people skills. Others who know how to best work on logistics and saving company funds. It's with these combined skill set...

March 25, 2016

What are the "Best" Chains in Your Area? And What Makes Them That Way? No matter where you live, there's a "go-to" brand for virtually every service. Cleaners, eateries, repairmen – if there's a need for it, there's someone who does it best. Some folks might have a different brand than others...