The benefits of a franchisor partnering with an approved strategic real estate company are far greater than the risk and harm of referring a new franchisee to a third party national real estate firm or a local commercial agent.

Before selling franchises in the U.S., franchisors will need to accomplish a number of legal items including franchise agreements and disclosure documents that comply with U.S. laws. It should be understood that legal compliance is a cost of doing business. 

The process of running an effective business is built on a foundation of good communication. Yet good communication eludes us. It seems that the fundamentals of how we communicate are broken. Take a moment to consider how things would be different if everyone in your organization were on the same page, communicating effectively, and working together.

Franchisor annual meetings, more often, are being pitched as “the ‘blockbuster’ meeting of the year” by many franchisors and, depending on the key goals of the meeting, that may be the right emphasis. That is, provided the franchisor’s and franchisees’ needs are being met.

Attracting great people to your franchise is one thing. But keeping them is another. Offering employee benefits can help a franchise owner achieve both.

Properly designed systems and processes can help ensure compliance and provide guidance for navigating problematic compliance issues that frequently arise.

Franchisors and franchisees face accelerated, complex, sophisticated cyberattacks resulting in rapidly expanding impacts. A cyberbreach is a business crisis problem, not an IT problem.

 

Franchisors should pay close attention to their franchisees’ maturation. Data shows more than half currently have average tenures of about seven years and may be facing mid-life crises. In lifecycle terms, business years are like animal years, where one year is equivalent to several human years.

New rules create a multitude of workplace and compliance challenges.  The U.S. Labor Department, together with the White House, announced long-awaited and much anticipated final changes to the Fair Labor  Standards Act’s overtime rules

In its continuing efforts to promote and protect the franchise model, IFA is launching a Congressional Franchise Caucus during the 2016 Franchise Action Network (FAN) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Congressional caucuses are formed by members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to educate the public, thought leaders, and other members of Congress on various issues.