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Desi Williamson has led a diverse career as a corporate sales and marketing executive, entrepreneur, motivational coach for the Minnesota Vikings, and now restaurant owner.
- Desi Williamson
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Do your employees know what makes your company radically different from all of your competitors?
- Rick Barrera
- 9,473 Reads 1,491 Shares
Steve Bowen knew how to handle a good paint job. But as an independent businessman he was stretched thin and was wearing many different hats as he tried to manage his own painting company.
- Kerry Pipes
- 5,892 Reads 195 Shares
Online marketing, social media, and social commerce have created an environment that places an increased burden on franchise marketing departments.
- Keith Klein
- 11,273 Reads 1 Shares
Franchisors seeking to build a loyal customer following and remain competitive in 2011 must develop and deliver national and local marketing programs for their franchisees--deploying the latest social media tools in addition to their traditional methods.
- Kerry Pipes
- 4,482 Reads 168 Shares
Access to capital has been a bane to franchise growth for nearly three years. Much of the blame has been placed on lenders, who have been notoriously gun-shy since the September 2008 financial debacle.
- Eddy Goldberg
- 5,811 Reads 57 Shares
As savvy franchise companies continue to flourish in a changing economy, FUSR continues to bring you good news each month, highlighting brands that are adding units, increasing comp store sales, striking deals with investors, innovating, and continuing to grow, whether domestically or overseas.
- Eddy Goldberg
- 7,353 Reads 1 Shares
From what you read in the media, does it feel like 88 percent of ad dollars are still being spent on old media?
- Michael Sick
- 8,555 Reads 1,021 Shares
Until your organization figures out how to drive higher sales and profits at existing stores, adding new units is very risky. The only time McDonald's got in real trouble came when they focused on growing sales by adding new units while neglecting to grow same store sales.
- Jack Mackey
- 9,129 Reads 1,014 Shares
When Shelly Sun and her husband JD founded BrightStar, their full-service healthcare staffing agency in 2002, the concept was rooted in their experiences searching for quality care for JD's sick grandmother. "We were managing multiple relationships and thought how great it would be to have one company handle the entire continuum of care," says Sun, CEO of BrightStar.
- Debbie Selinsky
- 7,423 Reads
In the course of my speaking and consulting engagements, I've found that many franchisees have given up even trying to get meaningful references on promising job applicants. From the frustrating experiences recounted to me by others and my own company's policy, I know that most employers will report only dates of employment and the starting and ending wage or salary figures.
- Mel Kleiman
- 8,316 Reads 1 Shares
Allow me to share something that is staggering to me. I spend thousands of dollars a year with many companies that have no idea I exist - and so do you.
- Scott Klososky
- 2,140 Reads 2 Shares
Many reputable marketing firms and agencies have dubbed 2011 as "the year of social"... and with good reason.
- Erica McClenny
- 3,022 Reads 5 Shares
It's been said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. You'll notice that most of the same brands have returned to this year's Multi-Unit 50 lists.
- Paul Wilbur
- 10,158 Reads 1 Shares
For years, Jeff Orlando has read with fascination the articles in franchise and business magazines about super-successful entrepreneurs. "It's amazing to read about these guys who have 87 Burger Kings and 92 Wendy's units and these unbelievable homes and lifestyles," says the Killeen, Tex., resident. However, he adds, it's also nice to read about "regular guys like me," who choose to define their success in a different way.
- Debbie Selinsky
- 6,504 Reads
In launching Naked Pizza, our argument has never been that a healthier pizza is going to save the day, but rather that every "new" business should and can have a social strategy--a strategy that positively affects someone or something along the continuum. If you don't, then maybe you don't have a business. To us, mission, profit, and scale are inseparable. So far, so good.
- Robbie Vitrano
- 4,084 Reads 58 Shares
Timing the sale of a business can be a stressful process. In today's tenuous economy, it's nearly impossible to predict your business's financial future, let alone its value on the open market.
- Mike Handelsman
- 5,460 Reads 29 Shares
Service recovery. Those two words can make the difference between success and failure. And yet most people in management positions don't know what the term means, let alone how to use service recovery to establish a loyal customer base and increase sales.
- John Tschohl
- 5,816 Reads 177 Shares
Listening is one of the fundamental principles of social media and Web 2.0.
- Franchise Update
- 2,699 Reads 5 Shares
In case you haven't heard, franchises hold a place of honor in the world of data thieves. In fact, chains are the favorite target of hackers trying to steal payment card information. The most recent figures from Visa indicate that up to 97 percent of data compromises are suffered by smaller merchants and "specifically franchisees"--particularly those in the restaurant, clothing, sporting goods, and hotel industries.
- David Ellis
- 7,220 Reads 69 Shares
Google Places, Google's local business directory, which is tightly integrated with Google Maps, is now accepting applications from businesses in selected U.S. markets to have Google photographers take professional photographs of their premises, including interior shots.
- Daniel Lieberman
- 2,551 Reads 6 Shares
Very few of us like to admit failure. Especially when it comes to something that appears to be so easily done by others. But just because it appears easy, is that reason enough to dive right in? Certainly not!
- Paul Segreto
- 2,879 Reads
As there is an unnatural rise in the federal debt level in the US, an increasingly large number of people are turning to debt relief companies for help. While there are people who are looking for authentic debt consolidation firms for help, there are some other class of people who are pondering over the prospects of opening a franchise debt consolidation business.
- Steven Roberts
- 15,058 Reads 2 Shares
As multi-unit franchisees with 24 Sizzler restaurants, Gary and Sally Myers spend a lot of time together at work, where he is president and CEO of their Temecula, Calif.-based company, and she is vice president of marketing.
- Debbie Selinsky
- 15,288 Reads 2 Shares
Franchise Update Media Group (FUMG), the leading industry resource for franchise development, announces that 57 brands with more than $11 billion in annual system-wide sales, were represented at the first annual Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference.
- PRESS RELEASE
- 2,970 Reads 1 Shares
In early 2008, Moe's Southwest Grill was still something of a newcomer in Mexican fast-casual segment. But in the eight years since it had been founded, not much new work had been done on either the restaurant prototype or its menu. So when Focus Brands acquired the franchisor in August 2007, then CEO Steve Romaniello reached out to Paul Damico to see if he was interested in not just running the brand, but freshening it up and reenergizing it.
- John Carroll
- 20,056 Reads 2 Shares
As we like to say here, numbers tell only one part of the story. The individual franchisees who create those numbers flesh them out, give them character, make them come alive.
- Kerry Pipes
- 4,826 Reads 1 Shares
One of the most difficult things to impress upon start-up franchisors is the amount of time, resources, and manpower it takes to establish a uniform system and, equally important, to monitor compliance with that system.
- Richard S. Mulligan
- 13,748 Reads 2,394 Shares
Franchise systems must stay dynamic, not static. Reduced recessionary spending demands introduction of new product assortments and pricing programs. Decreases in franchisees' financial performance mandates a product line adjustment. Whether driven by external or internal forces, every franchise system must be prepared to adapt to remain relevant, viable, and competitive.
- Amy Cheng
- 7,464 Reads 1,023 Shares
You might not know it from reading the news, but there's a lot of money out there looking for a good home, and high-performing multi-unit franchise companies have become targets for private equity investors. Estimates of available private equity peg the pent-up funds at about $500 billion, more than enough pie for most multi-unit franchisees to get a slice--if they have what it take to appeal to investors.
- Eddy Goldberg
- 9,579 Reads 634 Shares
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