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07/05/2012 - More Options for America’s Entrepreneurs from FranNet and Knowledge Institute
In an effort to arm America’s entrepreneurs with more options, FranNet and Knowledge Institute are joining forces to educate individuals about the resources they require to start, grow and succeed in business. FranNet will serve as the exclusive franchise educational resource for the Knowledge Institute’s Entrepreneurial Education Network and its outreach of more than 25,000 federal, state and local business development offices across the country.
06/20/2012 - Family Ties, Chance to Help Rebuild New Orleans Spur Business Opportunity
As did everyone in the region, Ted Fireman saw the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina up close and personal as he had family and friends in the area. Now he’s combining a vision to help the rebirth of the region with a business opportunity that he hopes will fuel a new generation of business enterprise.
06/12/2012 - FranNet Names Jack Armstrong Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board
FranNet, North America’s most respected leader in matching budding entrepreneurs with franchise businesses, named Jack Armstrong chief executive officer and chairman of the board today. The company also announced that Blair Nicol has been elevated to vice-chairman of the board after previously serving as a member.
03/13/2012 - Surge in Franchising a Hot Topic
FranNet blog post featured on Business Reel Our blog last week about the promising future of franchising despite a recession proves to be a topic people are talking about. Last week, Business Reel featured our post about IFA’s economic outlook for 2012 which showed a tremendous spike in franchising growth patterns. To see the placement, [...]
03/13/2012 - New Bill Offers Steep Tax Breaks for Veterans to Open a Franchise
Possible assistance for veterans who are seeking to start their own business.
03/13/2012 - FranNet’s Todd Bingham Featured in Entrepreneur
People like Todd Bingham at FranNet have watched the trends and have a good read on where certain companies are heading. Bingham recently offered his expertise in the Entrepreneur. Read more in the article below.
03/13/2012 - Is Absentee Ownership of Franchises the New Franchising Trend?
In franchising, trends are coalescing to form what could be the next large-scale movement in the industry: absentee ownership of franchises. Or, as franchise owners themselves call it, “manager-run franchises.”
03/13/2012 - FranNet’s Gary Prenevost Featured in Financial Post
FranNet’s Gary Prenevost offers advice on franchising a business model successfully.
03/13/2012 - Families turn to franchises to start their own family business legacy
We recently profiled four families who started businesses with FranNet’s help and are now creating their own financial successes: A father-son team that runs a child education franchise in Nashville; a son whose parents helped him open a custom T-shirt franchise in Marietta, Ga.; a husband-wife team that owns a T-shirt franchise in Snellville, Ga.; and a corporate retiree who now owns a leather and upholstery repair shop with his son in Milledgeville, Ga.
03/13/2012 - FranNet To Help Disabled Veterans Through Wounded Warrior Project
If you’re a veteran injured in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars and looking for job opportunities, FranNet is prepared to help you out.
03/13/2012 - Roanoke Times Story Features FranNet Franchisee Rosen
Franchising offers first-time business owners guidance, support and a proven business model.
03/13/2012 - What Is the Best Franchise Consultant Network for Franchise Expansion?
This year, the International Franchise Association is predicting that entrepreneurs will open more than 14,000 new franchise businesses, and franchise consultants will contribute a large number of these.
03/13/2012 - IFA Conventioneers Optimistic About Franchising in 2012
This year’s IFA Conference was the highest attended in history. There are still some grim economic realities and the economy still has a long way to go, but it is clear that the franchise industry is expecting to see growth across all sectors in 2012.
03/13/2012 - An Inteview with FranNet Franchise Matchmaker, Chris Coleman
Chris Phillips can’t imagine working for someone else ever again. The former banker now runs a personal electronics repair business in St. Louis, and it was FranNet consultant Chris Coleman who helped make it possible.
03/13/2012 - An Interview With FranNet Consultant Michael Sipe
Michael Sipe, an investment banker, entrepreneur and business consultant, worked with FranNet consultants on small business development projects in California and the Pacific Northwest for 20 years. In July, he decided to become a FranNet consultant himself, purchasing the FranNet territory covering Idaho, central and eastern Oregon and eastern Washington state
03/13/2012 - FranNet Contributes To Hopeful 2012 Franchising Forecast
“We’re seeing franchising opportunities open up that would have been unimaginable a few years ago,” Bailey says. “With the economic climate and the projected growth in the industry, there’s never been a better time to explore franchise opportunities.”
03/13/2012 - Are U.S. Workers Ditching Jobs For Franchise Opportunities?
With national unemployment still hovering around 9 percent and “job creation” the term on every politician’s lips, you’d think employed North Americans would be happy to just have jobs—and you’d be wrong.
03/13/2012 - A New Years Resolution: Never Again Click “Reply All”!
I hate when people “Reply All” to an e-mail, especially to a large group. Until recently, I could be proud that I hadn’t done this. However, I did exactly that a few weeks ago. I replied to everyone in a large mailing list, purely by accident. At FranNet, we have a group for everyone in [...]
03/13/2012 - A Closer Look At Growth Trends in Franchising
The recent Franchise Business Economic Outlook for 2012, prepared for the International Franchise Association by IHS Global Insight, pinpoints in their projections where they expect the growth to occur—and the franchise experts at FranNet, the international network of franchise consultants, are well-positioned to analyze what the numbers mean.
03/13/2012 - Banker Transitions to T-shirt Printing Franchise Through FranNet
A man with a entrepreneurial spirit, Gene Rogero was looking for something outside the banking world where he had spent 25 years.
03/13/2012 - Belmont University Promotes Franchising as Corporate Alternative with FranNet Consultant Dan Aronoff
Students at Nashville’s Belmont University are getting a hands-on look at franchising, a business model experts regard as an important alternative to large corporations.
03/13/2012 - ‘Franchise Matchmaker’? What’s That?
FranNet’s job is to take stock of clients’ interests, life goals, desires and skills and find franchise companies that match them.
03/13/2012 - Jerry Bird Shares Experience with Knoxville News-Sentinel
In a down economy, starting your own business is a smart way to go and most of the time franchising is the answer. That’s why the Moores purchased ten locations of the Five Guys burger franchise as soon as it became available. Interviewed by the Knoxville News Sentinel, the father-son duo talked about why they jumped on board.
03/13/2012 - FranNet 2012 Trend Predictions: Franchise Industry Will Continue to Grow
FranNet, a national franchise consulting firm, has worked in the last three years with a growing number of potential entrepreneurs who either lost their corporate jobs or chose to leave them.
03/13/2012 - Palo Alto Online Reports on Franchise Growth
While other girls were playing with their Barbies, at 6, Lisa Anter was charging 10 cents a cup at her lemonade stand at a lake near her Montreal, Canada, home.
03/13/2012 - How Obama, Gen Y Fund Are Teaming Up to Help Young Entrepreneurs
What’s truly encouraging is that the administration expressly connected the plan to young entrepreneurs, recognizing that small business ownership can be a much better option for a bright young person than a corporate job—as long as the young person has a fighting chance to manage his or her student debt load.
03/13/2012 - FranNet in The Mainstreet Business Journal
Franchise matchmakers are consultants who link clients seeking franchise opportunities with the right franchises. Often, clients are former corporate employees or executives who lost their jobs in downsizing; others are retirees who want a more dependable source of retirement income; still others are recent college graduates who are having trouble finding traditional work in the recession.
03/13/2012 - Why Do Franchise Brokers Have the Upper Hand in Today’s Economy?
Is it any wonder that American workers by the thousands are flocking to franchise brokers to guide them into new careers in franchise ownership?
01/14/2012 - An Interview with FranNet Consultant Vic Scimo
Scimo bought his Los Angeles area FranNet franchise in 2000 and has never looked back. “I found my calling,” Scimo says. “It’s great to help others succeed with franchising business models that are structured for success.”
01/14/2012 - The Best States for Entrepreneurship
Franchising is booming in the tough economy and in some states, new startups are more attractive than ever. Michael Sipe of Bend, Ore., a franchise owner for FranNet, the network of small business consultants that helps guide clients to fulfilling careers in franchise ownership, is seeing an increase in corporate workers opting for franchise ownership.
01/14/2012 - Franchising: A Job-Creation Machine
Sound statistics underlie our optimism. Recently, the International Franchise Association released an extensive Economic Impact Report that, using 2007 U.S. Census data on franchise businesses, carefully measures franchising’s economic impact in the United States.
01/14/2012 - FranNet Consultant Offers Insight to The Entrepreneur
And while few people are trading up to larger homes these days, the economy hasn’t stopped them from packing up or changing addresses – a boon for moving and storage franchises.
01/14/2012 - Toronto Star Features FranNet Canada Twice on Same Day
We were pretty excited to open up the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper, on Saturday to see FranNet featured in not one but two articles!
01/14/2012 - FranNet Success Story: Anatomy of a Career Switch at 60
Mid-career and late-career professionals over 50 are loaded to the hilt with skills and talents. They need or want a new arena for them. Sound familiar?
01/14/2012 - Chicago Area Publication Highlights Franchised Business Growth in Slow Economy
We at FranNet know new franchised businesses create local jobs but also like to see local media outlets recognize it.
01/14/2012 - FranNet Ranked 12th on Business First’s Fast 50 List of Fastest Growing Companies
“In a down economy, franchise opportunities are some of the best business opportunities available for skilled professionals who have lost their jobs or decided to leave corporate America,” said FranNet President and COO Jania Bailey. “FranNet has been able to grow quickly over the last three years because it meets a need in the marketplace for good, viable, long-term business options.”
01/14/2012 - Mike Welch Featured in All Business Magazine
In an article by Sara Wilson for Allbusiness.com posted on Oct. 27, an interesting discovery was made: having a college degree does not necessarily guarantee success in the franchise industry.
01/14/2012 - FranNet Helps Ex-Corporate Exec Realize Entrepreneurial Dream
FranNet helps former corporate employees make the transition to business ownership through franchising. Many of our clients were forced out of their corporate jobs and turned to franchising because it was their best option.
01/14/2012 - An Interview with FranNet Consultant Mike Welch
Mike Welch doesn’t mind talking about his “failure” as a traditional small business owner because it eventually led him to seek the structure and success of franchising.
01/14/2012 - FranNet: Social Media Help the New, Practical Entrepreneur
FranNet, a North American network of franchise consultants, maintains a strong presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media outlets, encouraging its team of more than 75 franchise owners in the United States and Canada to maximize their impact via social media as well.
12/22/2011 - Choosing to be Just Another Cog in the Corporate Wheel Again? Don’t Forget About Linkedin, Your Re
Have you noticed? When someone gets a job, many times they abandon their Linkedin profile. On occasion, I help people with their resumes, and every time I ask for a current resume to see what I have to work with, it’s never updated after they got their last job. It’s like they dropped off the [...]
12/22/2011 - Choosing to be Just Another Cog in the Corporate Wheel Again? Don’t Forget About Linkedin, Your Re
Have you noticed? When someone gets a job, many times they abandon their Linkedin profile. On occasion, I help people with their resumes, and every time I ask for a current resume to see what I have to work with, it’s never updated after they got their last job. It’s like they dropped off the [...]
12/22/2011 - An Interview with FranNet Consultant Stacy Swift
Swift felt instantly at home at FranNet because it was a place she could apply her accumulated knowledge and help others succeed at the same time.
12/22/2011 - FranNet Expands in San Francisco Bay Area
FranNet, a national network of consultants that works with displaced corporate employees, is expanding operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and has added Mary Eastwood to its staff.
12/22/2011 - FranNet Makes INC Magazine’s List of Top 10 Franchises
FranNet, a national network of franchise consultants, has made the list of “Top 10 Franchises” in the 2011 INC 500, Inc. magazine’s annual list of the fastest-growing privately held American companies.
12/22/2011 - Are You Business-Ready, or Simply Business-Curious?
As a franchise consultant at FranNet Colorado, I visit with a lot of people who say they are ready for business ownership, but after I ask a few questions, I can easily determine if they are actually business-ready or simply business-curious.
There is a big difference between these two types of people. There’s a change in [...]
12/20/2011 - Choosing to be Just Another Cog in the Corporate Wheel Again? Don’t Forget About Linkedin, Your Re
Have you noticed? When someone gets a job, many times they abandon their Linkedin profile. On occasion, I help people with their resumes, and every time I ask for a current resume to see what I have to work with, it’s never updated after they got their last job. It’s like they dropped off the [...]
- Lane Fisher Joins the FranNet Board of Directors
“Pennsylvania Superlawyer” Elected to First Term. Prominent franchise attorney Lane Fisher has joined the FranNet Board of Directors. His term began on January 1, 2012.
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