When running a franchise business, keeping tabs on operations across your whole network can be an immense challenge. Naturally, we all like to...

And how to get started Part 1/2 Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Starbucks. When you read these names, certain images come to mind: perhaps it’s the...

Part 2/2 Naming your intranet is a process and it’s one that is integral to so many parts of your internal operations. Check out Part 1 in our...

If you’re a franchisor who is reading this, you might be concerned with your brand’s bottom line and flagging location performance. Or, what is...

This Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500 list features 10 commercial cleaning franchises that have regularly claimed a spot in the top 200. As a niche ripe...

The Ten Spot brainchild and CEO Kristen Wood could be accused of biting off more than she could chew. The guerilla, no-nonsense beauty bar and salon...

“We want to open big and stay big.” So says Tom Lewison, CEO of Wild Wing Cafe, a restaurant chain in the south and southeastern United States,...

What’s in a (brand) name? Franchises are primary people driven. And it doesn’t matter what format your business takes on. Building a franchise with...

Can being a franchisor deliver on those visions of business growth, bankable, steady income and global expansion? Absolutely. And it doesn’t require...

At some point, retailers, restaurants and cafes come across the same issues. Across formats and offers, there are patterns of “mediocrity” that...

Franchises are “brands in motion”   Whether global, national or local, they have a distinct identity with physical, “brick & mortar” locations....

The business challenge What is one of the biggest concerns that plague franchisors? The franchise model is a true-blue testament to a strategy of...