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What Winning Looks Like In Franchising

If you were to buy a franchise, what would winning look like to you?

Think about it for a moment. What are you seeing? What’s the visual?

What is your visual?

Define Success

What are your goals?

If you decide to pull the trigger, and actually buy a franchise…become an Owner, what would need to happen for you to consider your business to be a winner…to be a success?

Seriously: What would success “look” like like? What would success “feel” like?

What would make the risk you took worth it?

Can...

McDonald’s: They’re Making Their Quarter Pounder Bigger Why?

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but most restaurants in the U.S. are trying like heck to come up with healthier menu offerings for their customers. It’s a good move, since the obesity rates in this country are through the roof. Right?

So, why did the new McDonald’s CEO decide to increase the size of the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder?

I’m so confused.

McDonald’s: They’re Making Their Quarter Pounder Bigger Why?

According to a document CNBC got their hands on, the “new” Quarter Pounder, “I...

You Open Your Franchise And This Happens

The time: Two months after you opened your new franchise business

The place: Your office

Your frame of mind:

The reason:

(See the 1st image)

Those are crickets.

You Open Your Franchise And This Happens

Imagine investing $250,000 on a franchise business.

Really. Imagine it for a minute. Feel it.

Now imagine having no customers.

None.

Nada.

點也不.

никто.

Niet een.

Ninguém.

Niente.

Pas du tout.

Thank you for those translations, Babylon.com

It would really suck.

What would you do?

How would...

Buying A Franchise: Fighting About Money

I grabbed the text below from my book, Become A Franchise Owner!

“Over the years, I’ve actually been involved in a few mild arguments with prospective franchise buyers who didn’t feel that it was important for me to know about their financial situation. Admittedly, I’m not the most patient person when people who have requested my guidance refuse — for some strange reason — to give me the information I need to do my job properly. I do completely get how some people may be a little leery about...

New Report On Cleaning Franchises Is The Bomb

One very popular sector in franchising is the cleaning sector. It includes commercial cleaning and residential cleaning. That kind of makes it a double-sector.

Cleaning Franchises

Most of the people I work 1-on-1 with quickly discount cleaning franchises. They think they’ll be the ones doing the cleaning. Or, they just want something sexier.

Now, I would never own a cleaning franchise. I have my reasons. One of them has to do with having to manage employees. Been there-done that. That’s me....

Did Ray Kroc Have A Dark Side?

I don’t know. But, there sure is a lot of talk going on as of late about Ray Kroc-and his supposed dark side.

That’s because there’s a movie filming about the life of Ray Kroc, the *founder of McDonald’s.

*Kroc wasn’t the founder of McDonald’s. The McDonald brothers were. He purchased the restaurant chain from them.

And, built an empire.

An empire that may not be an empire pretty soon, unless the executive team can get their stuff together.

Did Ray Kroc Have A Dark Side?

Word on the street...

This New Tax Preparation Franchise Concept Will Make You Happy

(Sponsored Post)

Happy?

I know. Rarely is the word “happy” used in a sentence that includes the word, “tax.” After all, who in their right mind would ever be happy about preparing their tax returns? Or, happy about payingtheir taxes? I certainly won’t be breaking into my favorite dance (that the kid in the video below stole from me) right before I have to prepare my own taxes.

I’m not alone. Most people dread having to do their taxes. It’s so complicated and time-consuming. Plus the rules (...

Noteworthy In Franchising: June 6th

Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting franchise happenings from the 1st week of June. Nothing boring here. Just unadulterated excitement, as you’ll see.

Noteworthy In Franchising: June 6th

It looks like it’s going to end up being the summer of discontent for McDonald’s franchisees….actually, it’s been pretty depressing for franchisees of McDonald’s for the past couple of years. The Wall Street Journal goes into great detail on why McDonald’s franchisees are so angry and so bummed...

Instant Support From A Franchisor Is A Pipe Dream

All of us want it fast. Instant this. Instant that.

We want our food fast. (Fast food)

We want to get rich quickly.

We want our success to be instant.

We want our high-speed internet service to be way faster than it is.

I want to type faster.

Etc.

A Great Reason To Buy A Franchise

There are a ton of reasons-great reasonsin fact, to buy a franchise.

Read- 22 Reasons To Buy A Franchise

One of them: Franchisor Support

Isn’t that one of your reasons for wanting to buy a franchise?

For example,...

Ask-Carol! A Home-Based Business Focused On Seniors

(Sponsored Post)

One way to stand out in business these days is to make sure your business has a memorable name.

For example:Ask-Carol!

Another way to stand out in business, specifically in franchising-let’s go deeper, in the senior care sector of franchising, is to offer a franchise opportunity that’s unlike any other.

That’s what Carol and Bill Shockley last year. (2014)

Keep reading, so you can learn more about this low-investment home-based franchise business opportunity that has a very...