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You'll recruit new franchisees much faster if you initially understand, prepare, and learn the best methods for selling franchises.
  • Steve Olson
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FUSR bring you positive news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, innovating, and continuing to grow, both domestically and overseas.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 4,507 Reads 1,014 Shares
When things get quiet at Carla Fryar's Great Clips salons in Northfield and New Prague, Minn., she tells her employees to hit the road--dressed as the brand's mascot, Sudz, a life-sized blue shampoo bottle.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 10,539 Reads 1,650 Shares
One of the largest uphill battles a franchise owner faces is combating the costs associated with hiring, training, and retaining good people, particularly in businesses with a high turnover rate.
  • Jason Hamilton
  • 39,062 Reads 3 Shares
During the initial stages of an exit strategy engagement with our clients, we spend considerable time gaining a full understanding the client's business.
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 10,931 Reads 1,010 Shares
Getting the most from your advertising spend is more important than ever. These 9 tips can help you become more effective at choosing where you place your ads - and how to evaluate the results.
  • Steve Olson
  • 4,805 Reads 262 Shares
As a hospital administrator, Allen Hager had personally seen the anguish that families faced when searching for safe, appropriate, quality home care services for their family members returning home.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,021 Reads 117 Shares
As more franchisors and franchisees embrace social media to augment their consumer marketing efforts, answers to this question gain in importance.
  • Franchise Update
  • 3,220 Reads 109 Shares
Rick Silva developed a passion and understanding for business early in life. The son of Cuban immigrants, he watched his mom and dad start their own small business from scratch in Miami.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 5,915 Reads 824 Shares
That's a question a lot of people ask themselves every day. It's also one of the questions posted on Focus.com.
  • Franchise Update
  • 14,664 Reads 2,997 Shares
Franchisors recognize the best performers in their system with a Franchisee of the Year award (or equivalent).
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 5,579 Reads 14 Shares
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We have made progress digging our way out of the pit of economic meltdown we tumbled into in 2007, but we certainly have a long way to go before we experience the vibrant economy we enjoyed in much of the 1990s and the early to mid-2000s.
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 6,848 Reads 1 Shares
At the recent Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators Conference, Service Management Group (SMG) conducted interviews with executives on how their customer satisfaction efforts are working.
  • Jack Mackey
  • 8,907 Reads 1,014 Shares
Linda Shaub is CMO of Interim Healthcare, a network of 332 franchise locations providing medical staffing and in-home care services in 43 states.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 3,317 Reads 27 Shares
In case you missed it (and when it comes to marketing and social media there's plenty to keep up on), MarketingSherpa published its Wisdom Report, "Marketing Wisdom for 2012" earlier this year.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,229 Reads 1,023 Shares
I am convinced that someday the franchising community will finally get around to unleashing its biggest competitive strength: unit predictability.
  • Darrell Johnson
  • 5,012 Reads 1 Shares
As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in a volatile economy, FUSR continues to bring you good news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, innovating, and continuing to grow, whether domestically or overseas.
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 6,419 Reads 311 Shares
As chief marketing officer for Interim Healthcare, Linda Shaub oversees the company's branding and consumer-facing activities across a network of 332 franchise locations that provide medical staffing and in-home care services in 43 states.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 2,945 Reads 99 Shares
Franchisee satisfaction is a pillar of our business. It is both a point of emphasis and a source of great pride for the our executive team and support staff.
  • Franchise Update
  • 4,650 Reads 240 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
  • 4,511 Reads 81 Shares
Kevin Cushing began delivering newspapers in Chicago when he was in second grade. He eventually delivered more than one million.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 6,398 Reads
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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
  • 8,267 Reads 1 Shares
How do you promote your franchise to prospective buyers?
  • Steve Olson
  • 3,788 Reads 2 Shares
No one I know would dispute the benefits technology--specifically the computer--has had on every aspect of our lives.
  • John Tschohl
  • 4,835 Reads 68 Shares
As a franchise CMO, you probably are already using digital marketing to reach customers through email and your company's social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Chris Watland
  • 5,249 Reads 542 Shares
There's good news and bad news for franchise sales and development executives. That's the way Steve Olson, president of Franchise Update Media Group sees it after reviewing the results of the company's most recent Mystery Shopper survey.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 3,654 Reads 69 Shares
In 1985, after committing to play for the powerhouse University of Michigan Wolverines, high school football senior John Rotche suffered a career-ending spinal cord injury that left him a quadriplegic.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 7,374 Reads 715 Shares
Last month we published a high-level overview of the 2012 Annual Franchise Development Report (AFDR).
  • Eddy Goldberg
  • 3,664 Reads
With 2011 winding down, how are you leveraging people, budgets, brands, and resources to meet development goals?
  • Franchise Update
  • 3,748 Reads 32 Shares
Thinking of buying a new franchise? Here are 5 questions to ask the prospective franchisor in order to determine if they will support you with financing.
  • Mike Rozman
  • 12,808 Reads
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