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If you're a small to mid-sized business owner or manager, you may want to add Ohio based bizSugar.com to your top resource list. (Disclosure; I'm the Community Promotions Director for the Small Business Trends website. Anita Campbell owns that site,... Read More

A couple of months back, I was somehow allowed to be on a conference call with CEO Matt Shay and some others, from The International Franchise Association. (IFA) The topic was the lack of availability for small business loans. I'm... Read More

Award-winning writer, Jerry Wilkerson, has been in the franchise industry for a paltry 32 years. He has been adding his thoughtful insight as of late, to all who will read his articles. Jerry may not know that he's an award-winning... Read More

(Except Different) Years ago, people used things called public libraries to do research on a variety of things, including washing machines, and franchise opportunities. Libraries housed books and magazines that were available for people like you to use for whatever... Read More

Franchise Direct's Donald Cranford, recently had an opportunity to spend some time in India. Donald, (Franchise Direct's US lead blogger) focused on the growth of the franchise business model in India. Lots of growth, actually. Opportunities exist. (Disclosure; Franchise Direct... Read More

First off, a little franchise trivia;Which hot franchise in the 1980's had Mickey Rooney as their spokesman? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsoist/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 I remember when my dad arrived on the franchise scene in the 1980's. He was the franchise development... Read More

Here's a list of some terrific franchise blogs that I read regularly. (I'm subscribed to a few of them, too) Some of these top franchise blogs are run by folks that I know fairly well, while some of them are... Read More

I'm sure you've heard of Mr. Appliance by now. No? How about Mr. Handyman? Ok, now I'm getting somewhere. It seems like a lot of franchises have the name "Mr." in front of their names, lately. I'm not sure why.... Read More

As you've probably heard, Burger King is experimenting with "Burger King Beer," in Miami, Florida... Maybe it's time for Burger King executives to invite their franchisees over for one. (A Beer!) Carrolls Restaurant Group is a tiny Burger King franchisee,... Read More

I got off the phone with the assistant "director," of this local tutoring franchise business, and felt really embarrassed. I couldn't believe that we were both in the same industry. The franchise industry. Here's how one five minute phone conversation... Read More