The Subway PR team magicians have just made Jared Fogle disappear. Fogle is gone from time and space. You can’t (and won’t) find his name or his picture anywhere on the Subway corporate website. Wise move. Speed When a reporter called me (yesterday) to ask questions about Subway-and the Jared Fogle crisis, I told her […]

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(This is a guest post from Laura Petrolino, of Arment Dietrich) Remember when you used your phone only to call people? That’s it. No texting. No looking things up on the internet. No Facebook or Twitter. No photography. You picked it up, you dialed a number. You called someone. A simple straight forward communications transaction. […]

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I don’t see anything good coming out of a recent franchise news story that I read. It’s going to take a PR miracle to turn around what really is a PR nightmare. The Headline: Pizza Franchise Pushes Independent Bookstore Owner Out   A Real PR Nightmare A Ft. Collins Colorado franchisee of Papa Murphy’s, a […]

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Scientists tell us that the universe is expanding every second. But, even though we can’t see it-or even feel it, it is. The online universe is expanding too. That, we can see. Thousands of new websites and blogs are being added every day, 365.25 days a year. And guess what? The owners of all of […]

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  You became a franchise owner because you wanted more control over things. You wanted to have more of a say in your future. You were sick of getting downsized. Making others wealthy was getting old. Working 65 hours a week for a company that would replace you without blinking an eye, didn’t sit very […]

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  Not only do I know what you want,  I understand why you want it. In times of high unemployment especially, lots of people want what you want. But, that “wanting” goes away for most of them when they get a new job. You see, most people feel in their heart that working for someone else […]

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  Frankly, it’s so confusing, I had to read the post twice. The very-well branded Charles Schwab financial services empire has decided to take a shot (invest) in some franchise development efforts, but I’m not really sure why. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for creating opportunities for people to become franchisees, so that they […]

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  I’m part of a great industry. It’s pretty cool to be involved with the greatest business model ever developed. For the right person, at the right time in their life, who has the financial capability, becoming a franchise owner can be an amazing, life-changing experience. If you’re going to become a franchise owner, it’s […]

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  (This is a guest post from Fred Leo, a business coach whose home on the Internet is SoloBizCoach.com) One of the fastest ways to become your own boss is to buy a franchise, but finding the franchise that is right for you (and the right information) can be a tough task. There are so […]

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  Wouldn’t it be nice to have some part-time income coming in from a part-time business? Of course it would. The real question is this; can it be done? Can you find a legitimate franchise opportunity that only requires a few hours a week to run? And, if you do find an opportunity to own […]

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