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Franchise Due Diligence: An Insider’s Look
"Excellent tips and instructions on how to evaluate franchise. The most important point to keep in mind is to select the franchise that matches with your strength and you enjoy working in. You will be spending lot of time working on this. If you don't enjoy it and if it doesn't align with your strength it will lead to failure eventually."How to Sell Your Team On Your Higher Prices
"Good point about selling the price increase to your employees. However, it's the customers who decide whether they are getting the value for the price you charge. You have to first ensure customers are willing to pay the price you want before convincing your employees. If the perceived value of your products or services doesn't match the price no amount of selling to the employees will help."Franchise Buyers: Don't Take A Hit
"Great advice and a warning shot for a newbie. I have seen too many people getting stuck with the franchise they though would be a good business. Unfortunately. it didn't work out the way they thought or it required different skills than they had. Spend plenty of time researching the franchise and yourself before signing on that dotted line because once you do it you will need to commit to it 100%. There is no easy way out."Why Years of Life Experience Benefit Franchising Entrants
"Great point. My view is that experienced (read old) people can use their life learning to make the right decisions. In addition there are several other factors working in their favor, including more available time, extra savings, contacts, etc."5 Major Employee Issues and How to Solve Them
"I like your advice about taking the resignation letter and scheduling time to discuss afterwards. this give you a chance to put your thoughts together and have a meaningful dialog. I also like to discuss with the employee leaving his thoughts on the workplace and any suggestions he might have to improve it. I agree with you that he counter offer don't usually work. It's best to let the employee go and assess your remaining team to see who can best fill the vacant shoes. Great article!"Your Productivity Can Choke On Information Overload
"Jane - Totally agree. Rather than passively consuming information for countless hours it's better to have a game plan to document what you want to achieve and use the relevant information to get there. Just consuming information for the sake of reading will not get you too far."7 Solid Reasons Why Market Competition Is Good For Small Businesses
"All of the reasons you mentioned lead to making you a better business as a result of competition. You can see the impact of competition on the outcome by comparing business success in the free market country such as USA against those in Russia. It's the competition as a result of free market that made the businesses in USA world-class."5 Low Cost Ways To Market Your Business -The Small Business Playbook
"Gary - These are great tips that any small business can benefit from. I always maintain that great marketing should cost much. The best example is word-of-mouth that many small business owners overlook. By providing great products and customer service the businesses can get their customers talking and do the marketing on their behalf - free of charge. This doesn't sound like marketing, but no amount of paid marketing engagement can beat the return received from word-of-mouth."Franchise Ownership: For The Rule-Follower in You
"Excellent point. Many entrepreneurs fail to understand this and regret the decision to go franchise route afterwards. There is nothing wrong with following rules. In fact franchising can provide excellent opportunity to those who do not have much experience in business. If you are one of those who likes to experiment and doesn't want to play by rules, you should think about going independent business route. Franchise will only frustrate you."Subscribe
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