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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
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Tommy Haddock has added 10 Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits restaurants since we profiled him six years ago.
  • Debbie Selinsky
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Tommy Haddock has added 10 Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits restaurants since we profiled him six years ago.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,781 Reads 1 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
  • 3,697 Reads 89 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
  • 4,371 Reads 81 Shares
Food--fast, slow, casual, takeout, sit-down, delivery--is by far the largest single sector in franchising.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 7,964 Reads
You search and screen and interview for the best employees. Days pass, sometimes weeks, as you narrow down your choices (and continue to operate understaffed).
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,066 Reads 1 Shares
Local store marketing (LSM) strategies can go a long way in boosting a brand's growth and nationwide image, says Sandy Lechner, president and CEO of Boca Raton, Fla.-based Synergy Brand Management, which provides turnkey branding solutions for franchises.
  • Helen Bond
  • 9,506 Reads 2 Shares
Real estate brokers and franchise consultants have repeated the phrase "location, location, location" for nearly 100 years.
  • Noah Glass
  • 10,433 Reads 3 Shares
Franchisors recognize the best performers in their system each year with a Franchisee of the Year award.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 7,684 Reads 7 Shares
Sam Covelli says he grew up in the restaurant business working in his father's McDonald's.
  • Tracy Staton
  • 6,708 Reads 1 Shares
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As the economy continues to struggle through a slow recovery, business people everywhere are looking for any tools or techniques that will help them keep their businesses alive and thriving.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,906 Reads 1 Shares
Sam Covelli says he grew up in the restaurant business working in his father's McDonald's. Under his father's leadership, Covelli Enterprises eventually grew to 26 locations, one of the largest McDonald's franchisees in the country.
  • Tracy Staton
  • 30,526 Reads 2 Shares
Ray Harrigill believes in diversification. His Sunray Companies has restaurants (Bumpers Drive-In), tanning salons (Palm Beach Tan), fitness centers (Koko FitClub), and hotel properties (Hampton Inn), to name a few. That's because of lessons he's learned along the way.
  • Tracy Staton
  • 9,647 Reads
Zane Tankel is not waiting on any government job programs to help his business.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,896 Reads 197 Shares
There was a time when a hacker needed exceptional computer skills to breach a system. Only the most talented and experienced computer users could successfully bypass even the most minimal security provisions.
  • David Ellis
  • 10,002 Reads
"Sometimes interesting things happen in a bad economy," says Dawn Lafreeda, CEO and president of Den-Tex Central Inc. in San Antonio.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 14,622 Reads 1 Shares
For months, Republicans in Washington have been beating a steady drumbeat about the harm regulations have on businesses, the economy, and job creation.
  • Matt Deffebach
  • 5,838 Reads 258 Shares
The previous two editions of the Franchise Update Sales Report introduced the topic and covered Step 1 and the beginning of Step 2 in successful lead generation.
  • Steve Olson
  • 2,916 Reads 23 Shares
Ray Harrigill believes in diversification. His Sunray Companies has restaurants (Bumpers Drive-In), tanning salons (Palm Beach Tan), fitness centers (Koko FitClub), and hotel properties (Hampton Inn), to name a few.
  • Tracy Staton
  • 6,983 Reads 1 Shares
A few weeks ago I introduced your franchise consumer marketing colleagues to a two-headed turtle named Ditto.
  • Melinda Caughill
  • 3,791 Reads 76 Shares
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Each year we work with FRANdata to compile a list of the country’s largest multi-unit franchisee organizations.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,335 Reads 1,021 Shares
Business owners across the country have been dealing with one of the longest and most difficult recessions in US history.
  • Franchising.com
  • 5,208 Reads 36 Shares
What does franchise marketing have in common with a two-headed turtle?
  • Melinda Caughill
  • 7,523 Reads 1,021 Shares
When Greg Thomas decides whether to fix or ditch a financially troubled store, he typically thinks big
  • Helen Bond
  • 15,117 Reads 1 Shares
For years, Subway has prided itself on offering healthier fare for its customers.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 13,135 Reads 2 Shares
When Sunita Sagar was a teenager working as a part-time cashier at a Jack in the Box in California, she dreamed of the day she would become a doctor.
  • John Carroll
  • 6,378 Reads 82 Shares
Who is your ideal franchise buyer? Let's begin with knowing your market.
  • Steve Olson
  • 5,558 Reads 1 Shares
Those sanitarily questionable movable feasts that have rolled through America's cities for decades are being replaced.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 35,363 Reads 4 Shares
When Michael Ansley was a teenager helping his father, a painter, with work at KFC and Wendy's restaurants in Springfield, Ohio, he soaked up both his father's entrepreneurial spirit and a basic knowledge of the food and franchising business.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 8,275 Reads 1,014 Shares
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