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One of the primary reasons organizations and companies go through the effort of developing a qualified team environment is to produce better decision-making that results in more positive outcomes.
  • Timothy Bednarz
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Putting the right people at the helm has launched many high profile, highly successful turnarounds, from Jack Welch in his early days at GE to Meg Whitman at eBay.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
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Glenn Mueller is Domino's Pizza's largest single franchisee with 135 units. It's a partnership made in pizza heaven.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 17,792 Reads 12 Shares
David Buckley is a busy marketing executive. He's responsible for development, planning, and execution of the consumer marketing strategies for not just one, but four retail chains under the Sears label.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,370 Reads
If you follow the news, you've no doubt heard a lot about the impending rules of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which became law on March 23, 2010.
  • Jeff Bevis
  • 3,392 Reads 44 Shares
Many franchise leaders are slow to embrace the idea that the best time to grow is in uncertain times.
  • Richard S. Weissman
  • 5,972 Reads 307 Shares
Hopefully, you are adopting a standardized real estate process that encompasses a clearly defined all-in-one strategy for site selection, lease negotiation, and legal review.
  • Scott Simcik
  • 9,686 Reads 3 Shares
Franchisors who have achieved a certain level of success naturally begin to think about the next phase of their company's growth and development.
  • Lynette McKee
  • 5,433 Reads 63 Shares
The following is a review of the lead generation principles and best practices outlined in my book, "Grow To Greatness: How to build a world class franchise faster."
  • Steve Olson
  • 5,789 Reads 558 Shares
If I know anything about franchisees, it's that they have lists for everything, from daily kitchen cleaning practices to employee entrance procedures.
  • Joe Durfey
  • 7,036 Reads 1,023 Shares
Lloyd Sugarman--Sugie, to his friends--is something of a "franchise whisperer." He sniffed out Coldstone Creamery as a concept with great franchise potential years before the couple who started it were ready to grow.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 9,314 Reads 1 Shares
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We are experiencing a rare alignment of stars in the franchise finance world right now, and it's essential that operators act quickly to take advantage of this situation, before the party's over. To understand the current financing environment, let's take a look at the economic "big picture."
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 7,648 Reads
Resiliency and optimism permeated the air at this year's Multi-Unit Franchising Conference, held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas March 27-29.
  • Kerry Pipes and Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,898 Reads 1,014 Shares
For most of her 40-year career, Linda Read says she has had to work harder, be smarter, and produce better results than the men in her field
  • Helen Bond
  • 6,414 Reads 239 Shares
Wendy Odell Magus is in the driver's seat, a position she relishes--and excels at. With more than two decades in marketing, she understands both the consumer and franchise sides of marketing and communication
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 3,691 Reads 34 Shares
The role of the leader is to create a smooth operating and empowered organization that frees employees from obstacles and barriers to their personal productivity.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 4,080 Reads 57 Shares
The primary concern most fast food business and franchise owners encounter is the balance of front of the house demands and back of the house operations.
  • Layne Davlin
  • 6,650 Reads
When Tony Lutfi was asked back in 2009 where he'd like to be in five years, he said 100 units.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,771 Reads 1,020 Shares
The White House and IFA recently announced that 290,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired or trained in the franchise business since the launch of the White House Joining Forces initiative in 2011.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
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Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza must be doing something right. In fact, the country's fifth-largest pizza chain is doing a lot of things right.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,402 Reads 1 Shares
Peter Holt received an early Christmas present late last year when Tasti D-Lite CEO Jim Amos announced he was stepping down and that Holt had been selected to take the reins of the 25-year-old brand.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,179 Reads 1 Shares
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The 3rd annual Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference is right around the corner... in Atlanta, at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, this June 25-26.
  • Franchise Update
  • 2,675 Reads 42 Shares
We all know that social media links influence our rankings in search engines.
  • Jeremy LaDuque
  • 2,317 Reads 51 Shares
A survey of 437 service industry franchisees conducted by Yodle in December 2012 revealed that 9 out of 10 respondents said online marketing support was a key factor in choosing a franchise brand.
  • Franchise Update
  • 5,442 Reads 177 Shares
Research by email marketing giant Constant Contact reveals that 60% of small businesses need help with social media marketing.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • 2,047 Reads 7 Shares
In my 20-plus years of teaching and consulting with business owners and hiring managers about how to "hire tough so they can manage easy," I've discovered there are 10 commonplace mistakes almost everyone makes that are guaranteed to result in bad hiring decisions and waste untold time, money, and effort.
  • Mel Kleiman
  • 7,722 Reads 1 Shares
If President Obama decided to name an Ambassador of Franchising, John "JD" Draper, with his dapper attire, mile-wide smile, and booming voice would surely make the "short list" of top candidates.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,247 Reads 1 Shares
Silos are good for one thing, and one thing only: holding stuff back.
  • Franchise Update
  • 4,415 Reads 4 Shares
Managers are often task-oriented, and not necessarily focused on their employees. Leaders on the other hand are people-oriented;
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 7,107 Reads 533 Shares
A franchise is not an ordinary business asset. You don't really "own" a franchise outright as you do a traditional business.
  • Gerald Marks
  • 6,305 Reads 246 Shares
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