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I’ve been traveling a lot lately, which gives me time to catch up on my magazine- and newspaper-reading. For obvious reasons, I tend toward articles about franchising, salon ownership, manager-run businesses, entrepreneurship and business operations.
Here are the highlights from a collection of articles I’ve bookmarked over the past month or so.
Advice for Franchisors: Treat Franchisees Well
This article focuses on the mistakes that franchisors make when it comes to how they treat their franchisees. One of them is...
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The Great Clips Real Estate & Development Team is looking forward to ICSC RECon in Las Vegas this month (May 21–23). It’s the largest industry convention for retail shopping centers and real estate professionals from all around the world.
This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people who can help us find great locations for our walk-in haircare salons. There are several ways we learn about potential locations: commercial real estate brokers, commercial landlords, franchisees who seek out potential sites,...
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Over the past few months, I’ve read a lot of good articles—primarily from magazines and newspapers that I read online—about franchising, entrepreneurship and general business topics. I either bookmark them or send the link to someone in our department so we can talk about it later, or that I can use as topics for this blog.
So, here are some highlights from my collection:
A 10-Minute Wait? Don’t Waste My Time
This article revisits the study commissioned by Great Clips in which people were asked how long was a...
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If you’re reading this blog, chances are you’re already a franchisee or you’re considering becoming one. Either way, you’re most likely interested in knowing when something is worth investing in – a hair salon business, for example – or when it’s best to look elsewhere.
I came across this headline recently: 10 Signs of a Great Franchise Opportunity. It was an article posted on AllBusiness.com, which is one of my favorite online publications for news about starting or buying a business or franchise. (Full...
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Every now and again, I like to share a story of one of our franchisees on the blog. Just like a picture that tells a story, sometimes I think we learn just as much or more hearing about others as we do reading all the business advice we can get our hands on. There’s just something about a true story that helps us hold a mirror up to ourselves and re-evaluate. (Don’t worry – no cheesy Hollywood-style “based on a true story” flicks here!) But, Mark Grace got me thinking this week, and I hope you can glean something...
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Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of interviews with our Great Clips franchise development managers. FDM, Butch Gladden, Vietnam veteran, seasoned franchise professional, and dedicated family man is quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, but there’s no place that he’d rather be.
Great Clips: How long have you been with Great Clips?
Butch Gladden: Nine years, seven months and five days, but who’s counting?
GC: Why is Great Clips the world’s largest hair salon brand?
BG: I tell...
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