Business Education The Day You Start Your Business Is the Day You Should Start Planning to Sell It Exit readiness is a standard of quality. It is the discipline of building a business that is worth something to someone beyond yourself, and that standard improves everything about how you operate today. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
Franchise News Weekly When a Franchisee Fails: The Denny's and Wendy's Stories The headlines out of Denny's and Wendy's deserve honest attention. So does everything else that happened, because the broader picture this week was one of expansion, investment, and a franchise industry moving forward with confidence. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
Business Education Should I Invest in a Franchise or Start My Own Brand? Neither path is the right answer for everyone. But for most first-time business owners, and for many experienced operators, the structure a franchise provides reduces risk in ways that are genuinely difficult and expensive to replicate on your own. By Will Huffhine • 7 min read
Business Openings Graham is Ready for More Dirty Gutters in Snohomish, Washington Expanding into additional territories is one of the clearest signals available in franchising, cleaner than a brand’s own marketing, cleaner than a discovery day pitch, cleaner than any testimonial. By Will Huffhine • 3 min read
Franchise News Weekly Acquisition Talks, New Markets, and a Tech Warning Development agreements signed, territory milestones reached, and new markets entered across food and beverage, senior care, education, real estate, and retail topped the headlines. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
Business Education How To Be a Real Business Owner Business owners who want to earn trust and grow in an era of digital fatigue and AI content overload can do so by showing up as recognizably, undeniably human in the communities they serve. By Will Huffhine • 7 min read
Business Ideas A Franchise That Turns the Most Overlooked Space in Your Home Into a Business A premium garage renovation company that transforms residential garages into organized, functional, genuinely beautiful spaces. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
Business Trends Which Businesses Are Hardest for AI to Disrupt? The disruption is real, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. But disruption has limits, and understanding where those limits fall is not just academic. It is the most practical question a would-be business owner can ask right now. By Will Huffhine • 9 min read
Business Openings Better Cabinets are Coming to Oklahoma City In the home remodeling industry, systems and showroom experiences vary, and Cabinet IQ aims to address these challenges by focusing on the customer and the quality of the work we promise. By Will Huffhine • 4 min read
Business Trends The Brand That Built 600 Coffee Shops in Four Years (And Isn’t Slowing Down) Where Starbucks has watched its throughput crater under the weight of mobile orders and increasingly complicated customizations, 7 Brew has built a machine specifically designed to handle the volume. By Will Huffhine • 6 min read
Business Education You Will Never Own a Chick-fil-A. That's the Point Do I want to own a business, or run one? Am I building equity, or building income? What am I willing to give up for lower capital risk? By Will Huffhine • 10 min read
Franchise News Weekly Fifty-Three New Franchise Units, an FTC Settlement, and a 12,000 Sq. Ft. Training Center Meaningful growth activity across food, services, and education on one side, and two significant risk stories on the other that every prospective franchise buyer should understand before moving forward in their search. Here is what happened and what it means. By Will Huffhine • 6 min read
