Small-business owners make sacrifices for their business, but should carefully consider which ones allow the best chances for long-term success.

Acquisitions are critical to the evolution of most businesses. 

Protect your franchise and your bottom line in card-present and card-not-present transactions.

Franchise owners busy running businesses often struggle to locate funding options, but there are quick and simple alternatives that should be explored. 

Three things to consider when investing in capital expenses while maintaining operational excellence and ROI.

New credit card technology could help protect you and your customers from fraud and financial liability, plus get a jump on your competition.

According to FRANdata's most recent volume of the Small Business Lending Matrix, the good news for the franchise industry is that the business climate is improving for the fifth straight year, with unit transactions at their highest since 2008.

Several IFA board members and successful multi-unit franchisees were featured in a New York Times story May 19 about investing in a franchise, including Doc Cohen, president and chief executive of Cookie Associates, David Barr, a multi-unit KFC franchisee, and Aslam Kahn, the largest Church’s Chicken franchisee in the nation.

Franchisors can and should challenge unreasonable nexus assertions by state revenue agencies when the state’s position is unwarranted.  The changing state tax landscape, however, may force franchisors to deal with complex income apportionment and allocation provisions in multiple jurisdictions. 

Last year, Alan Green, a former TV news photographer turned ad pitchman, decided to buy a business that could also serve as his nest egg, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.   But when the 59-year old couldn't get financing to purchas