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It's 2017, and you're a franchise consultant. What does your typical day look like? Where is your office - corporate headquarters, at home, in the cloud?
  • Evan Hackel
  • 3,837 Reads 316 Shares
On a smarter planet, we've seen how predictive analytics can help transform everything from how we fight crime to how we improve things like healthcare, food safety, and utility grids.
  • Franchise Update
  • 5,831 Reads 272 Shares
David Grimaud grew up in the car repair business. His father, Joe, operated a Midas shop in Alexandria, La., where David spent many days working as a teenager.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 7,217 Reads 105 Shares
"What are your goals?" is the common question I present to clients and prospects.
  • Loyd H. Rawls
  • 3,832 Reads
Sam Ballas waxes eloquently--and passionately--about East Coast Wings & Grill, the company he acquired in 2001.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,679 Reads 9 Shares
Operating a successful franchise business is challenging enough. Add in family members and things can get really interesting.
  • Michele Chandler
  • 8,335 Reads
I am often asked how I define exceptional customer service. Here it is in a nutshell: Speed, price, and technology--all built around service.
  • John Tschohl
  • 4,985 Reads 32 Shares
Rich Hope spent three decades in advertising and is comfortable planning marketing strategies and executing successful campaigns.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 3,808 Reads
Just as history has a way of repeating itself, Ralph Askar has a way of leaving his mark on organizations. He's doing it again with Instant Imprints.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,902 Reads
To Glenn Mueller, franchising at its core is a partnership. And as the largest single franchisee in the Domino's Pizza system at 135 units, he's a great partner to have.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 20,252 Reads 6 Shares
I am often asked how I define exceptional customer service. Here it is in a nutshell: speed, price, and technology - all built around service.
  • John Tschohl
  • 6,825 Reads
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Rich Hope has spent three decades in advertising and is comfortable planning marketing strategies and executing successful campaigns.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,471 Reads 1 Shares
You can't improve what you don't measure, the old saying goes... which is one reason so many in franchising eagerly anticipate the release of the Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR) at Franchise Update Media Group's annual Leadership & Development Conference.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,720 Reads 117 Shares
Do you know how many days it takes from signing until your franchisees can begin collecting revenues?
  • Keith Gerson
  • 4,069 Reads 1 Shares
This past August marked a milestone for Randy Shacka and for Two Men and a Truck: Shacka not only became the first non-family president of the Michigan-based franchisor, he also did it at the only company he's ever worked for--and at just 33.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 5,450 Reads 351 Shares
What make a franchise All-STAR? A passion for excellence. That's the premise behind the STAR Awards (Speaking To and Responding), presented annually at Franchise Update's Leadership & Development Conference, held October 3-5 in Atlanta.
  • Michele Chandler
  • 6,127 Reads
Marketers have a lot to do these days, both despite and because of technology - as well as their expanding role in the enterprise.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,012 Reads 154 Shares
Doug Pendergast makes no bones about it when he says one of his goals for Krystal Burger is to focus the brand on being better, not bigger.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,662 Reads 2 Shares
The decision to sell your successful multi-unit business is now firmly on the horizon.
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 8,603 Reads 2 Shares
Twenty-year-old Michael Silva-Nash's family bought the Greater Little Rock Molly Maid franchise in 2005.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 13,072 Reads 1 Shares
A year ago, Ray Margiano, an admitted lifelong "workaholic," had an epiphany.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 3,353 Reads 31 Shares
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At every level, technology is now a game changing tool - and a great weapon of destruction.
  • Scott Klososky
  • 7,372 Reads 1,023 Shares
Amazon.com is a master at courting - and keeping - customers. It builds everything around the customer and has a better grasp of the power of the customer experience than any other company in the world.
  • John Tschohl
  • 4,294 Reads 156 Shares
Automating the hiring process has a number of benefits for multi-unit franchisees, from speeding the hiring process to helping identify higher-quality candidates.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 3,154 Reads 8 Shares
Massage Envy Spa has always been transparent when it comes to sharing its franchising opportunity with prospective franchisees.
  • Franchise Update
  • 4,284 Reads 95 Shares
"A business that fails to satisfy its customers is worth nothing."
  • John Tschohl
  • 5,642 Reads 1 Shares
Since its launch in June 2011, the Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference has become a darling of chief marketing officers, brand managers, and marketing managers.
  • Kerry Pipes and Eddy Goldberg
  • 2,711 Reads 87 Shares
When the keynotes, panelists, and attendees at a conference can't stop talking about emerging technology and social media tools, it says a lot about the current state of franchise marketing.
  • Kerry Pipes and Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,880 Reads 198 Shares
Long Island native Bob Johnston says he did not exactly fall in love with franchising--or the restaurant business--from his vantage point as a dishwasher in his older brothers' Melting Pot restaurant in Tallahassee, Fla.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 6,182 Reads 4 Shares
Leaders by their very nature are under pressure to have advanced intellectual and emotional intelligence. In today's economy, they better add one more - VQ, The Vision Quotient.
  • Scott Klososky
  • 5,707 Reads 1 Shares
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