Business Ideas What is the Best Franchise for an Executive Looking for a Scalable Home-Service Business? Floor Crafters offers a mobile model with no retail showroom, residential and commercial customers, subcontracted installation, franchisor-supported marketing, and the ability to scale through multiple territories. By Joanna Murray • 6 min read
You really can thrive as a franchise owner even without direct related industry experience. Business Education Business Owners Wanted: No Experience Required Many strong brands are NOT looking for industry operators, but instead they want business builders, people who can follow a proven system, lead a team, and grow something over time. By Bob Wenokur • 3 min read
Business Education How Much Does It Cost to Open a McDonald's Franchise? The real question is whether the capital required, the complexity of the operation, the layered fee structure, and the payback timeline match the life you are trying to build and the risk you are willing to carry. By Will Huffhine • 14 min read
Business Education Should I Start a New Business or Buy an Existing Business? There is no universally correct answer. Both paths have produced successful business owners and both have produced painful failures. What separates the outcomes is not the path, but the match with their capital position, their risk tolerance, their timeline, and their strengths. By Will Huffhine • 7 min read
Business Openings RealClean Aircraft Detailing is Wheels Up in Houston RealClean Aircraft Detailing is a niche mobile concept that focuses on interior/exterior detailing in addition to other specialized services for various types of aircraft. By Will Huffhine • 2 min read
Reduce dependency on others by becoming a vendor to yourself! Business Education A Business Owner’s Strategy for Vertical Integration By investing in yourself via a franchise that directly serves your core business, you’ll reduce your reliance on third parties vendors (and their marked-up prices) while simultaneously creating another for-profit revenue stream to service others, too. By Bob Wenokur • 3 min read
Business Openings From Operations and Technology to Sourdough & Co. Ownership Sourdough & Co. is excited to welcome Michael and Nicole as its newest franchise owners, bringing one new location to Akron, Ohio. Their Akron location represents the first step in what they hope will become a larger presence for the brand throughout Northeast Ohio. By Will Huffhine • 2 min read
Business Education How Much Is My Business Worth? A Guide to Business Valuation A rigorous valuation tells you what your business is realistically worth. It tells you what a buyer and a lender will actually support. And it tells you what, if anything, you can do before going to market to improve your position and your price. By Will Huffhine • 6 min read
Business Education The Biggest Mistake People Make When Buying a Business The biggest mistake future business owners make isn’t choosing the wrong business. It’s choosing a business before defining what they want ownership to make possible in their lives. By Chris Tucker • 5 min read
Business Education Our Franchise Did $450,000 in Year One and Wasn't Profitable. When someone tells me they want to invest in a franchise, I'm not just interested in finding a brand they think sounds exciting. I want to understand what they're actually trying to build. By Diana Miller • 5 min read
City Wide Facility Solutions made the Franchise 500 for the 12th(!) consecutive year. Business Ideas The $200B Facility Management Opportunity City Wide Facility Solutions is a B2B facility management company serving as a single point of contact for more than 20 commercial building maintenance services, delivered through licensed and insured vendors. By Bob Wenokur • 3 min read
Business Education Your Successful Travel Business Might Be Your Biggest Financial Risk. Nearly all of your income flows from a single ecosystem: leisure travel. And that ecosystem, however thriving it is right now, is exposed to forces that are entirely outside your control. By Will Huffhine • 5 min read
