The Franchisee Workbook: A Step-by-step Manual for Choosing a Winning Franchise

by Rick Bisio, Britt Schroeter

Celebrated author Rick Bisio has teamed up with exceptional co-author Britt Schroeter to bring to you The Franchisee Workbook . This is the follow-up to the highly successful The Educated The How-to Book for Choosing a Winning Franchise . Filled with necessary charts, graphs, formulas, 90+ exercises, and resources as well as helpful advice, this workbook has everything you need to become a successful franchise entrepreneur. This workbook offers practical exercises to help
- Analyze if franchise ownership fits your skills and personality.
- Identify and target best-in-class franchise systems.
- Confidently approach and interview franchisees.
- Discover if franchisees are making money--and how much.
- Evaluate the best financing alternatives.
- Obtain hidden knowledge from the Franchise Disclosure Document.
- Make a confident decision as to whether the franchise is right for you. Achieve independence and gain entrepreneurial confidence--start your own business today! Every tool you need is within these pages. You just have to open the toolbox.

179 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2011

About the author

Franchise Coach Rick Bisio has been focused on the business of franchising for over a quarter century utilizing a unique approach focused on improved decision making. Rick was born in Kansas City, the son of a hard working and independently minded father. Naturally, his father owned his own business. Entrepreneurship is what Rick knew growing up and it is the foundation of how he looks at the world. If you want your children to grow up confident in their own abilities, start a business and let them take part. It will give them the confidence to tackle anything in life.

Although Rick had many small businesses in his youth, he founded his first full time business at age 25. He secured the exclusive rights to import a variety of Italian plumbing brands and promptly quit his corporate job at Monsanto. When he started this business, he knew nothing about plumbing products and had no contacts within the United States plumbing industry. This was what you commonly call a ‘boot-strap start-up’. Suffice it to say that he learned a lot.

After selling the business, Rick spent several years both teaching and studying. While studying for his Master’s Degree in International Business in the early 1990’s, he was introduced to the franchise business model. This chance encounter changed his life.

As one of the most respected franchise consultants in the United States, Rick has guided thousands of people to great business decisions regarding business ownership and franchising. Rick has owned both franchised and non franchised businesses. He has bought, sold and invested in businesses and worked as an adviser to others seeking to do the same. Franchise Coach Rick Bisio is a best selling author and a regular speaker on the subject of business ownership and franchising. Rick currently lives on a small resort island in Florida with his family.