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Chirag Patel left India to work as an engineer and consultant in America. But it didn't take long to learn that franchising offered big opportunities for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,897 Reads
In January 2012, ICANN began accepting applications for new top-level domain names.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 5,721 Reads 77 Shares
Twenty years ago I first witnessed the magic of great PR. Dan Dorfman, a renowned investment advisor, wrote an article praising our small business-to-business franchise, which had 100-plus owners at the time.
  • Steve Olson
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With the proliferation of more sophisticated social media, PR, web, and blogging tools available today, franchisors have a golden opportunity to tell their story to a captive pool of franchise candidates who are hungry for such information.
  • Joe Mathews
  • 3,401 Reads
This has always been the place, right? America, I mean, where anybody can start with nothing and turn it into something.
  • Jack Mackey
  • 8,559 Reads 3 Shares
We asked three franchise sales executives what they are doing to improve the speed and effectiveness of their responses to prospects evaluating their system.
  • Franchise Update
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Franchising is bursting (not busting!) out all over these days, with a flurry of activity in financing, mergers and acquisitions, and incentives.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,617 Reads 25 Shares
In business, a lot changes in three years, especially in a down economy. And while his business has taken a turn for the worse, Tom Barnett's values and commitments remain strong as ever.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 8,208 Reads 485 Shares
Small business owners frequently juggle a variety of roles within their companies. Creating a balance and effectively managing available time is extremely important to most small businesses.
  • Sharon Housley
  • 8,034 Reads 1 Shares
Every business sector has its leaders, its standouts, its superstars. In franchising these are the Empire Builders, multi-unit and multi-brand franchisees who operate not one or two, but 10, 20, 100, or more franchised units.
  • Franchise Update Media
  • 15,220 Reads 1,023 Shares
Tom Barnett has taken it on the chin. The last three years of economic woe have taken a toll but his values and commitments remain as strong as ever.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,900 Reads 130 Shares
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When Lenny's Sub Shop offered fans who "liked" its Facebook page a free half-pound sandwich as part of a Valentine's Day promotion last year, the Memphis-based franchise felt the love.
  • Helen Bond
  • 3,927 Reads 139 Shares
At the risk of placing substance over style, all leaders must understand this simple truth: style does matter.
  • Glenn Gutek
  • 5,131 Reads 175 Shares
In 1996, Michael Ansley and his former college roommate asked their fathers for loans to buy their own franchise (Buffalo Wild Wings, then known as BW3) unit near Ann Arbor, Mich.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 5,443 Reads 193 Shares
There's something to be said for having walked for years in another person's shoes, for having come up the ranks to a leadership position.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 6,095 Reads 212 Shares
If you're wondering what a movie about baseball has to do with customer loyalty, I can give you the answer in one word: insight.
  • Jack Mackey
  • 3,993 Reads 1,023 Shares
When I was a little girl, I remember learning a song about friendship that has stuck with me since.
  • Melinda Caughill
  • 5,577 Reads 212 Shares
The U.S. economy is on the rise. While the world economy will be fortunate to realize a 3 percent growth rate in 2012 (less than 2 percent and we'll see a global recession, something too close to call at the moment), most of the domestic indicators are signaling a positive outlook for next year.
  • Darrell Johnson
  • 4,781 Reads
Franchisee satisfaction is a key component in getting franchisees to actively participate in your brand's marketing strategy at the local level.
  • Franchise Update
  • 3,784 Reads 135 Shares
Sixty-one percent of mobile users surveyed conduct local searches on their phones, and 72% of them said they made a purchase based on local searches on their smartphones.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • 2,512 Reads 8 Shares
Tommy Haddock has added 10 Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits restaurants since we profiled him six years ago.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 8,507 Reads 3 Shares
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Tommy Haddock has added 10 Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits restaurants since we profiled him six years ago.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,998 Reads 1 Shares
What gets rewarded gets done, so recognize and reward a lot! This is especially so if you want to learn how to change company culture.
  • Ron Kaufman
  • 5,901 Reads 327 Shares
I recommend you get your management team together and take them to see the baseball movie "Moneyball," adapted from the book by Michael Lewis.
  • Jack Mackey
  • 3,813 Reads 89 Shares
When I was 19 years old, I was promoted to passenger service manager for Capital Airlines at Midway Airport in Chicago.
  • Howard Putnam
  • 5,072 Reads
"I'm sorry, but this just isn't working, I think it's best if we part company." Have you been on the giving or receiving side of that statement?
  • Jay Werth
  • 4,528 Reads 73 Shares
Long gone are the good old days of 2002 - 2007, when development jokes about fog-the-mirror tests abounded.
  • Darrell Johnson
  • 2,894 Reads 2 Shares
In October 1998, Steven Keys converted his residential lawn care business to a U.S. Lawns franchise.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 16,829 Reads 3 Shares
Franchise shows were the champions of recruitment during the 1980s and early 1990s. Franchisors effectively sold owners throughout the U.S. by "working the circuit" 40 weeks a year.
  • Steve Olson
  • 4,499 Reads 81 Shares
Many entrepreneurs and business owners embrace the idea of franchising their business and leap into the franchise model with great hopes and expectations.
  • Beata Krakus
  • 15,669 Reads 3 Shares
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