Q4 | 2007

Youth Movement

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Working with family is not always easy, but it's worthwhile!

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Thinking big in South Texas pays off for this team player

Until he hit 40, Rick Guerra ran hotels and restaurants "making a lot of money for other people," he says.

Debbie Selinsky

Shedding corporate culture took some doing for Ellen Hui

When native San Franciscan Ellen Hui left a career in banking in 1989 to take on her first Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits restaurant, she experienced a big culture shock.

Debbie Selinsky

How to keep your head level and your portfolio rising

The year's fourth quarter marks the anniversary of my start in the investment management business many, many years ago. It also happens to coincide with the time of year my three kids go back to school.

Carol Clark

You're Sued! Do you know where your data is - or your metadata?

Today's business environment is filled with incentives to move toward a paperless office, especially considering the ease and low cost involved in storing and sharing electronic data when compared with paper.

Dawn Newton

Build your brand from within by creating an energized work environment

When was the last time you made an honest assessment of who you have in the most important "chairs" of your operation? Your front-line staff single-handedly sets the tone of your customer service and "packages" your performance day to day. Is your packaging attracting or distracting? Does it gather customers, or chase them away?

Gloria Plaisted

Sylvan Learning Centers puts a new spin on refranchising

A number of franchises now reaching a middle stage of life are facing issues they never anticipated when they first started selling franchises.

Ripley Hotch

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Choosing the best sites for your brand is a balancing act

Even experienced area developers can get emotional about locations, says Jeremy Behar, president and CEO of Cirrus Tenant Services, a Toronto-based company specializing in real estate negotiations for various businesses, including franchises. As a consequence, he says, "They will do what it takes to sign the deal and get it done."

Ripley Hotch

Working Capital: How is it working for your business?

Unfortunately, few multiple-unit franchisees or managers fully understand working capital, how important it is for every business, how it is measured, or how to obtain needed working capital.

Mark E. Battersby

Simplifying PC updates; automating call routing

A really hard job for any franchise company's tech department is coordinating all the different systems in franchisee locations. As everyone gets more and more dependent on standardized machines and programs, it's easy to think that the basics are taken care of.

Ripley Hotch

Multiunit rookies make up in attitude what they lack in experience

Conventional wisdom would say the best franchise operators are individuals with past business experience - or even better, previous franchising experience. But that may not be the case any longer. A youth movement is under way in the world of multiunit franchising.

Kerry Pipes