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Tutor Doctor® Franchise Owner Secures $4 Million Deal

I love reporting on good franchise business news.

I just found this story…a good franchise business news story-online. It’s the first I heard of it, and felt it was worth sharing. Maybe you’ll be motivated to take a shot at becoming a franchise owner yourself after reading it.

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Since opening in 2011, Bob Rosedale’s franchise business has provided 14,000+ tutoring sessions to more than 500 families. That’s a lot of tutoring! But, as y...

New LinkedIn Group Started: How To Buy A Franchise

Are you interested in owning a franchise?

Or, are you interested in at leastlearning about becoming a franchise owner?

If so, I just started something that I hope you’ll find useful. And, it’s free for you to get involved with.

New LinkedIn Group Started: How To Buy A Franchise

I just started a group on LinkedIn. It’s the…

How To Buy A Franchise Group

It’s my first real foray into creating and running a group.

I decided to create this LinkedIn Group because I wanted to have a central place for peopl...

Please Take This Short Franchise Ownership Survey

So, you’re thinking that franchise ownership could be the route for you to take.

Why?

Why do you want to buy a franchise?

When would you like to be in business-in a perfect world?

What types of franchises are you going to investigate?

Please Take This Short Franchise Ownership Survey

I’m in franchising. Have been for a long time. I have my own take on franchising as an industry. I have my own ideas as to what today’s prospective franchise owners want in a business of their own.

Now I want your take....

Maybe You Should Look At Buying An Existing Franchise

One option-if you’re on the hunt for a franchise to buy, is to buy an existing franchise. An already-operating franchise business. It’s one way to go, and there are definite advantages. In a moment, I’ll show you a few advantages of *buying an existing franchise.

*I recently asked subscribers of my free VIP Franchise Newsletter for their suggestions on what they’d like me to write about here. Information on buying an existing franchise was one of the topics that came up. Have you subscribed to...

New Fitness Franchise Opportunity Is Well Positioned For Explosive Growth

(Sponsored Post)

This post was written by Ray Haiber

As an experienced franchise professional, every once in a while I get invited to help bring a new concept to the market that I know intuitively has all the right ingredients to become a bona fide success. This is exactly what happened when I was introduced to TapouT Fitness late last year. Due to the exploding mainstream popularity of the UFC and MMA (mixed martial arts) as a sport, even a middle age “old school” guy like me instantly recogni...

Franchise Ownership Fact: Most People Are Too Frightened To Start A Business

It’s true. Most people are too risk-averse to start their own business. It’s not a bad thing…not at all. But, it’s a fact. It’s the reason most people don’t buy franchises-or any other type of business.

Do you consider yourself to be risk-averse? Are you frightenedwith the idea of owning your own business?

If so, and pardon my bluntness here, but why are you spending your time on The Franchise King Blog?

Hoping For A Miracle

Maybe you’re hoping to find something I’ve written over the years that w...

3 New Franchise Books Have Been Released And They’re The Shortest Ones Ever Written

It’s been a while since a new book on franchising has been written and released.

But, all that has changed this year, because of one intrepid indie book publisher.

The Publisher: FranBiz Press.

About FranBiz Press

FranBiz Press was launched in the summer of 2014 by an Alaskan entrepreneur by the name of Para Salin.

Salin, the former CEO of a medium size business book publishing house, got sick of dealing with the slowness of traditional publishing. She wanted speed. She wanted to pump books out in...

McDonald’s Is Officially In A Slump: CEO Is History

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For the first time in 30 years, McDonald’s revenuenumbers waned compared to the year before. This ends the longest positive sales run of a domestic restaurant chain ever.

2014 was a tough year for the fast food franchise empire. It was only a matter of time that a shake-up at the top would happen.

The CEO, Don Thompson, had been at the helm for 3 years, and during that time, things went from lousy to terrible. Just ask McDonald’s...

The Problem I Have With Franchise Rankings

Franchise industry insiders…the people who are actually in franchising, look at franchise rankings in a much different way than say, prospective franchise owners.

Take me, for instance: I hardly evertake franchise rankings seriously. Most franchise professionals don’t either-but you won’t be able to easily get them to admit as much, publicly.

Let’s dig in to franchise rankings a bit…and my feelings about them.

Franchise Rankings: Locker Room Conversations

Some of the conversations I’ve had about...

How To Experience The Thrill Of Franchise Ownership

Reading about franchise ownership isn’t thrilling.

It’s interesting…even entertaining at times. But, it’s not thrilling. We’re talking about business articles here, not Stephen King novels.

Out of the close to 2000 articles on franchising I’ve written over the years, I can’t think of one that I’d call “thrilling.”

Admittedly, I’m an average writer. But, I’m better than I used to be thanks to people likeAnn, Chris, Jon and Sonia-who have taught me how to be a better writer. Maybe someday I’ll be...