The Franchise King
In my continuing series of The Top 40 Questions To Ask Current And Former Franchisees, I’m giving you detailed information on every important question that you need to ask franchisees of the concepts that you’re interested in. Here’s #10 “Can you describe a typical workday from start to finish?” Let’s go… Attention would-be franchise [...]
A recent press release announcing a “$7.6 million Franchise Giveaway” by ActionCoach, formerly known as Action International, is causing me to have major neck pain. I mean it; whenever I get really stressed-out over something….really angry…the muscles located in the back of my neck do the herky-jerky. (As I write this, my wife is being [...]
(A Coach) It’s about time; there hasn’t been a new business coaching-type franchise offered for over a year now, and I for one, feel that we need more business coaches! Don’t you? ***************************************************************************************************************** (This post, or a close cousin to it, was previously published over at www.FranchiseFollies.com. My friend, Ivana Taylor, gently reminded me that [...]
Most of the people who subscribe to this franchise blog are here to gather information about buying a franchise; not selling a franchise. Big difference. If you're a would-be franchise owner, you're focused on finding that "perfect" franchise. You're trying to get your arms around the up-front investment, and your return on that investment. That's [...]
I have a reason for asking you if you’re using a business coach, and if so, is your coach a woman? If your answer was yes, is she providing business leadership coaching? I was reading a press release from The Growth Coach, a Cincinnatti-based coaching franchise. Now, before I share what I read, it may [...]
(In Part 6, I discussed what today's franchise buyer's want-and expect.; Transparency fransparency. I encouraged franchise executives and salespeople to be more open to sharing the positives and negatives of their particular brands.) We've rounded 3rd, and are coming home now. (This is the final part of this 7-part series.) So what is the final [...]
(Here's the true value of hooey) I'm adding this to my "Top 10 Reasons I Left F_ _ _ _ _t." *********************************************************************************************************** I left a national franchise brokering franchise almost 3 years ago, for many reasons. Some I may even go into, sometime in the future. I'm really happy about my decision. Especially after seeing [...]
In the first part of this story, I showed you how one particular business coaching franchisor went about finding new franchisees. I ended it by telling you that I have known about low-cost opportunities like business coaching for a long time. And that I really know about them. It’s time to share what I do [...]
When you've been out of a job for awhile, franchise investments of only $60k-$75k can be pretty darn enticing. Have you ever seen wonderful wording like this on job search sites? "If you are interested in building significant income, wealth and equity and having a lifestyle where you control your destiny then you may want [...]
