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John "JD" Draper simply looks like a leader. Maybe it's his dapper attire, mile-wide smile, and booming voice. Or maybe it's his decades long command of operating franchises.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,724 Reads 2 Shares
Online shopping has changed how consumers purchase airline tickets, shoes, music, and more. Now, according to a survey from EMN8, consumers want more of the same technology choices when it comes to ordering fast food.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 8,558 Reads 1 Shares
Success is something everyone wants but only a few achieve. However, it doesn't have to be that way.
  • Daniel C. Steenerson
  • 7,502 Reads 160 Shares
Social technologies provide a powerful collection of marketing tools, and they are inexpensive compared to other forms of marketing.
  • Scott Klososky
  • 4,584 Reads 96 Shares
When Jim Fitlow skis, he goes at it full tilt. In fact, one of his favorite quips is, "Turning is highly overrated."
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 7,648 Reads 126 Shares
Little has changed in health-related brands since last year's report. FRANdata still tracks 11 sectors across four industries: child-related, health and fitness, QSR, and retail food.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 9,197 Reads 206 Shares
When Cold Stone Creamery first showed up on his radar, Lloyd Sugarman knew it had great franchise potential years before the couple who started it were ready to grow.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 14,865 Reads 3 Shares
Who are your customers? Do you know what they want? Do you know what they think about you and your products and services?
  • John Tschohl
  • 4,476 Reads 50 Shares
What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies?
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,076 Reads 422 Shares
The need for trust in the workplace and communication therein is understood by many leaders to be the foundational building block of the organization.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 3,406 Reads 101 Shares
There's an old adage on Wall Street: When someone says, "It's different this time," run as far and as fast as you can.
  • Carol Schleif
  • 5,682 Reads 25 Shares
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As a youngster, Greg Cutchall watched his father and uncle struggle to make ends meet with their two A&W restaurants and told himself he would never go into that business.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 8,303 Reads
As a professional pilot, I meticulously pre-plan my flight including strong and continuous consideration and planning for the weather.
  • Moe Glenner
  • 5,097 Reads 9 Shares
One of the primary reasons organizations and companies go through the effort of developing a qualified team environment is to produce better decision-making that results in more positive outcomes.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 6,686 Reads 740 Shares
Putting the right people at the helm has launched many high profile, highly successful turnarounds, from Jack Welch in his early days at GE to Meg Whitman at eBay.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,476 Reads 6 Shares
Glenn Mueller is Domino's Pizza's largest single franchisee with 135 units. It's a partnership made in pizza heaven.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 17,873 Reads 12 Shares
If I know anything about franchisees, it's that they have lists for everything, from daily kitchen cleaning practices to employee entrance procedures.
  • Joe Durfey
  • 7,060 Reads 1,023 Shares
Lloyd Sugarman--Sugie, to his friends--is something of a "franchise whisperer." He sniffed out Coldstone Creamery as a concept with great franchise potential years before the couple who started it were ready to grow.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 9,350 Reads 1 Shares
We are experiencing a rare alignment of stars in the franchise finance world right now, and it's essential that operators act quickly to take advantage of this situation, before the party's over. To understand the current financing environment, let's take a look at the economic "big picture."
  • Dean Zuccarello
  • 7,673 Reads
For most of her 40-year career, Linda Read says she has had to work harder, be smarter, and produce better results than the men in her field
  • Helen Bond
  • 6,445 Reads 239 Shares
The role of the leader is to create a smooth operating and empowered organization that frees employees from obstacles and barriers to their personal productivity.
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 4,104 Reads 57 Shares
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The primary concern most fast food business and franchise owners encounter is the balance of front of the house demands and back of the house operations.
  • Layne Davlin
  • 6,686 Reads
When Tony Lutfi was asked back in 2009 where he'd like to be in five years, he said 100 units.
  • Kerry Pipes
  • 4,784 Reads 1,020 Shares
The White House and IFA recently announced that 290,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired or trained in the franchise business since the launch of the White House Joining Forces initiative in 2011.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 4,589 Reads 34 Shares
In my 20-plus years of teaching and consulting with business owners and hiring managers about how to "hire tough so they can manage easy," I've discovered there are 10 commonplace mistakes almost everyone makes that are guaranteed to result in bad hiring decisions and waste untold time, money, and effort.
  • Mel Kleiman
  • 7,741 Reads 1 Shares
If President Obama decided to name an Ambassador of Franchising, John "JD" Draper, with his dapper attire, mile-wide smile, and booming voice would surely make the "short list" of top candidates.
  • Debbie Selinsky
  • 5,261 Reads 1 Shares
Managers are often task-oriented, and not necessarily focused on their employees. Leaders on the other hand are people-oriented;
  • Timothy Bednarz
  • 7,116 Reads 533 Shares
A franchise is not an ordinary business asset. You don't really "own" a franchise outright as you do a traditional business.
  • Gerald Marks
  • 6,328 Reads 246 Shares
If you're not using social media as part of your recruiting process you should be.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 6,771 Reads 95 Shares
You might assume that Jo McCabe has a background in home repairs. The co-owner of Mr. Handyman and the system's 2010 Franchisee of the Year, serves the Prince William and southern Fairfax counties in Virginia.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 7,669 Reads 1 Shares
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