Choosing the Right Franchise
Can You Run a Franchise As An Absentee Owner?
Quite a few franchise businesses can be run either as an absentee or executive owner, or with a part-time commitment. So, if you currently have a full-time job, would it make sense to keep your day job and work your franchise on the side until it’s earning well enough to…
The One Question You Must Ask a Franchisor
There are plenty of questions you should ask before you decide on a franchise business. But there’s one that would-be franchisees often fail to ask — and yet it can be one of the most informative. Here it is: “Why did these franchises close?” You’ll have plenty of opportunity to…
Franchise Business Uniforms
When you invest in a franchise business, you’re paying for — among other things — the name and brand recognition the franchise has built up over time. In some cases that includes uniforms. The examples that leap to mind may be restaurant uniforms, but many franchises require uniforms for drivers,…
Franchise Faux Pas
Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, recently opened a new kind of fast food restaurant, a place selling the delicious Vietnamese sandwich known as “bahn mi.” They opened their first location in Dallas, Texas, a town with many Southeast Asian Americans, and the locals…
Organize Your Franchise Search
You’ve decided to go into business for yourself, and you’ve decided that franchising is the way to go. Choosing a company that has a proven business model and a winning system in place will give you that fast start you’re looking for, and you like the idea of the support…
Can You Trust Franchisee Surveys?
Research is essential when you’re trying to decide which franchise to choose for your business opportunity investment. You come to America’s Best Franchises to learn more, you peruse the Franchise Disclosure Document, you contact current franchisees, and we hope you also actively seek out complaints. The more you know, the…
5 Marketing Questions to Ask before You Choose a Franchise
When you’re working to identify the ideal franchise business opportunity for your specific needs, your mind may be on costs and how you’ll prepare to become a franchisee. You may be thinking through the typical day of a franchisee in a particular industry, or considering your options for locations and…
What’s on the New Franchises Page?
Are there really any new franchise business ideas? It seems as though there’s a franchise — or twelve — for every possible business idea. What could be new enough to hit our New Franchises page? A new idea. Sometimes it really is a new franchise business idea, like Social Media…
Do Politics Matter in Franchise Business Choices?
Never mind business and pleasure — should you mix business and politics? Business and politics have gotten mixed up in the past,and it has happened for franchisees as well as independent businesses. Here are a few examples that made the headlines: A Denny’s franchisee raised prices at his franchise location…
Celebrity Franchisees
Celebrity endorsements are a classic marketing move, but plenty of franchise businesses have celebrity franchisees, from Kanye West’s Fatburgers to Papa John’s Pizza with Peyton Manning and Venus Williams and Jamba Juice. Owning a franchise, or more often a string of franchise locations, has become downright trendy for actors, athletes,…