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Consider These Points When Selling Franchises During A Contentious Election Season
"Election jitters" can negatively impact the franchise development process. If your franchise sales have stalled, or you're suddenly hearing "We're going to wait" from prospective franchisees, here are tips to reboot growth.
Level Up! Podcast with Nick Lopez: Navigating the Competitive Surge: Revolutionizing Franchise Success
The founder of Emergent Growth Advisors, shares how private equity is reshaping the franchise landscape by driving unprecedented success and innovation. With rising competition and heightened expectations, PE-backed franchises are unlocking new levels of profitability and expansion. Listen in on how this investment surge is not only transforming brands but also creating exciting opportunities for franchisees and vendors alike.
Half of Those Searching For a Business To Buy Don't "Need" to Buy
According to Franchise Insights, 43% of seekers are currently employed full-time (down from a record 62% in June) and another 14% are existing business owners looking for another business to buy. Read that sentence again. More than HALF of people looking to buy a business today don't "need" to do so. Review your franchise website and unit level economics. Does your franchise opportunity description speak to people who are already gainfully employed or own another business? Why should they investigate YOUR franchise?
Franchise U! Big Money in Franchising with University of Louisville, College of Business & YUM! Global Franchise Excellence
The influx of Private Equity capital in franchising has accelerated the growth of many franchisors and multi-unit franchisees. This wide-ranging interview with Dr. Gosser covers multi-unit operators, PE history in franchising, the PE power dynamic, and how PE transforms brands - including pros and cons of PE investment in franchising.
Mastermind Minutes Podcast: PE's Impact on Emerging Franchises
This in-depth interview focuses on private equity's impact especially on emerging brands and how brands can set themselves up for growth, success, ....and potentially a PE transaction down the road.
How Franchise Owners Are Unlocking Big Money In The Area of Private Equity
Alicia Miller, founder and managing director of Emergent Growth Advisors, shares how smart franchise entrepreneurs can find the right capital partners to reach their goals and how franchisees can factor private equity into their own growth plans.
Franchise Today with Stan Friedman
This discussion focuses on how founders and franchisees can navigate to reach their own objectives when private equity owns the franchise or when trying to attract PE to fund growth.
Responsible Franchising Must Confront Weaknesses In How New Concepts Are Launched
New state-level guidance about franchise sales is getting attention right now. But if we really want to embrace responsible franchising, we must also confront weaknesses in how new concepts are launched in the first place.
Entrepreneurship by Acquisition
Entrepreneurship by acquisition (ETA) is a growing trend we're also seeing in franchising. More independent sponsors (usually young post-grads looking for franchisor businesses to buy) are raising money and looking for acquisition opportunities. They are active in the franchise sector. Emerging brands that are still too small to attract traditional private equity are good candidates for this type of partner. More universities are (thankfully) teaching about entrepreneurship by acquisition...and even writing case studies about ETA in franchising...Professor AJ Wasserstein at Yale School of Management is one example. I'm encouraged to see more and more universities teaching both franchising and ETA.
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