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The world is getting smaller. Customers come from and visit everywhere, and brand names are powerful. There are many reasons to take your brand away from your home soil and overseas.
  • Tony Foley
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This is the third part of an excerpt from my book that focuses on the program review step of the franchise sales process.
  • Steve Olson
  • 2,229 Reads
In a time when many business executives are looking at what to cut because of rising payroll and healthcare costs, Michael Kulp, president and CEO of KBP Foods, a $250 million restaurant company with units in nine states, is taking an "inverse" approach.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 7,941 Reads 2 Shares
How many direct reports do you have? Consider these four scenarios.
  • Bill Wagner
  • 2,729 Reads 1 Shares
What if you could give someone a really special gift that would cost you no money at all? And what if that no-cost gift could significantly change another's life?
  • Steve Farber
  • 4,457 Reads 31 Shares
More and more small business owners are selling their companies, with sales hitting a four-year high in early 2013 in the United States, and Canada predicting its largest small business turnover ever in the next five years.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,428 Reads 21 Shares
We asked Annica Kreider, vice president of brand development at Mellow Mushroom to discuss the role of diversity in the company's marketing department and in its marketing strategies. Here's what she had to say.
  • Annica Kreider
  • 2,321 Reads
The Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference (FCMC), now in its fourth year, is gearing up to surpass attendance records once again.
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 3,419 Reads 73 Shares
What do you believe about SEO? And how do you know it's true? Perhaps it's time to read "17 SEO Myths You Should Leave Behind in 2014," a report from inbound marketing software platform provider Hubspot.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,515 Reads
It's bound to happen: one of your customers will have a problem with your business - if not at one of your stores, then at one of your brand's, even if it's across the country.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • 2,913 Reads 1,014 Shares
Do you know there's an easy way to identify and predict how cybercriminals might get into your organization? Fortunately for already-busy franchisees, the process isn't as complicated as you may think.
  • Luke Engelhardt
  • 6,398 Reads
Broken Yolk
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There has never been a time where the nature of commerce is changing as rapidly as it is today. Technology been moving at blazing speed, not only around mobile payments and tablet-based POS systems...
  • Tom Epstein
  • 5,130 Reads
More than 300 franchise marketing executives and suppliers packed the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta in June 2013 for the 3rd annual Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference.
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 7,878 Reads 1,014 Shares
Charles Smithgall has a system. He operates with a simple business plan and model that focuses on executing fundamentals and getting results.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 11,205 Reads 1 Shares
Hello? Is anybody there? One of the biggest problems sales people face with social media and technology is the lack of real, meaningful contact and communication.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,337 Reads
Stories are the basis of human communication and decision-making. We use stories to relate to one another and make sense of the world around us.
  • Joe Mathews and Thomas Scott
  • 4,387 Reads
Everyone knows the names of the most popular business books and the gurus who wrote them: Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins... you know the list.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,287 Reads
Now's the time to start pre-closing your prospect. As franchise pros stress, "The best close starts with the opening!" This is the most opportune time to set expectations and take control through leadership.
  • Steve Olson
  • 3,112 Reads
If you ask retired NFL defensive tackle Don Davey to list the qualities needed to succeed in the NFL or in franchising, his list is the same: competitiveness, tenacity, discipline, coachability, and focus
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 6,332 Reads
How do you set standards and measure performance in your brand's sales and development department?
  • Franchise Update
  • 5,018 Reads 1,023 Shares
Peyton Manning just completed his most productive season ever as a pro. If anyone is surprised by that, they shouldn't be. According to ESPN, what many fail to realize is that statistically the Denver Broncos have the number one offensive line in football.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,511 Reads
The Human Bean
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Because most of us dread being called out for mistakes or weaknesses, leaders who hope to give honest feedback run the risk of angering employees and decreasing their productivity if it isn't delivered correctly.
  • Dr. Tasha Eurich
  • 5,214 Reads
Every company makes mistakes that could make them lose customers. I don't care what business you are in, something will go wrong.
  • John Tschohl
  • 3,992 Reads
Have you ever wanted to slap an exceptionally rude customer silly? That won't help as much as a solution a cafe owner in Nice, France...
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,882 Reads
We're all familiar with the classics in the world of business books: Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker... you know the names.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,029 Reads
When an Instagram photo earns 11 likes, instead of showing a list of the handles of the people who have liked it, Instagram shows the number of likes.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • 3,821 Reads
Not all entrepreneurs have the drive, initiative, and persistence to make it to the top. It takes a savvy operator who can evaluate risk and is not afraid to take it.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,217 Reads 1,023 Shares
Keith Gerson has spent more than 35 years in franchising in many different sales, development, and leadership positions.
  • Keith Gerson
  • 2,926 Reads
Franchise Update Media and MFV Expositions are joining forces this June to produce the first-ever Regional Multi-Unit Franchisee Summit, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 10,407 Reads 1,022 Shares
Cancer was a wakeup call for Charles Loflin. He was a successful businessman in 2009 going from one accomplishment to the next.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 14,418 Reads 3 Shares
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