Choosing the Right Franchise
How to Know if Starting a Franchise is Right for You
Are you being pushed, pulled and prodded into starting a franchise? Is your family trying to convince you that now is the time to finally turn your dreams of franchise ownership into a reality? If so, stop. That might sound like odd advice coming from a business that helps pair…
Top Kid-Focused Franchises in 2016
Nothing is quite as rewarding as working with future generations. Watching children learn something new, whether it’s a new word or a new subject, is one of life’s greatest pleasures. If you’re interested in starting a franchise, you’re not only thinking of how rewarding your work will be – you’re…
Is a Home-Based Franchise Right for Your Work Style?
You know what sounds appealing? Wearing pajama pants to the office and sleeping in until noon. That’s what it’s like to work for yourself, right? Not quite. Home-based franchise ownership is a unique type of career. Although there are plenty of perks, such as getting to set your own hours…
The Top 6 Franchise Industries Right Now
Where do you start? You’re ready to embrace the freedom and excitement of owning a franchise, but how do you know which one is for you? There are many franchise opportunities available but not all of them are created equal. The top franchises to own are those that: Show a…
Choose the Right Franchise Relationship For You
Franchises are growing so much that you can probably find a franchise option for almost any kind of business you’re interested in these days. In fact, you can probably find multiple options. If you’ve made a spreadsheet and you’re still having trouble narrowing down the choices, maybe you need to…
A Healthy Franchise System
Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell for sure which franchise business opportunity would be a winner, and which would not — before you made an investment? A new study might help make that a reality. FranchiseGrade conducted a study of seven years of data from 243 franchises, and…
Franchise Success Requires Differentiation
As you’re searching for the perfect franchise business operation, you might find yourself thinking, “Gyms are so popular — I should invest in a gym!” or “Look at all the coffee shops — I should open a coffee shop.” Herd thinking is one of the most natural thought patterns for…
Choosing a Franchise: Goods or Services?
Are you passionate about puppies? Do you dote on doughnuts? Often, the choice of which franchise business you should invest in comes down to the industry it’s in. You care about cars, so you naturally think of an automotive franchise, or you have experience with e-cigarettes so you head for…
How to Organize Your Search for a Franchise
In the new Netflix show Frankie and Grace, Frankie explains how she and her husband decided to say yes to everything one night and ended up buying a Del Taco franchise. “How did that happen?” her friend Grace asks. “Someone asked us, ‘You wanna buy a Del Taco franchise?'” explains…
Why Franchise?
Why do companies decide to franchise their business? The most obvious reason is that it allows a company to grow their business without taking all of the financial risk. Instead of investing in a new location and hiring a manager, bearing all the costs of building and growing their new…