Are You Ready to Franchise Your Business? Threshold Analysis Part One
Your goal is to ensure that your franchise system has the ability to consistently and sustainably replicate your brand standards from location to location.
Pricing of Franchises: How to Charge for Fees
Franchisors need to examine the cost benefit relationship of requiring frequent franchisee remittances vs. working capital benefits.
Developing Your Franchise System Field Staff
Field staff perform multiple functions in a franchise system; not only monitoring franchisee compliance, but also contributing to system growth far beyond completing a site visit checklist.
Social Franchisor Michael Seid Elected to IFA Board of Directors
Michael Seid, founder and Managing Director of MSA Worldwide, the leading strategic and tactical advisory company in franchising, has been re-elected to the International Franchise Association’s Board of Directors as the Chief Concept Officer of Social Franchisors CFW Clinics (CFW) and One Family Health (OFH).
Why Franchises Fail in Some Franchising Systems
Regardless of the cause, the loss of any single franchisee-owned location should be viewed with concern by the franchisor, and should be analyzed to discover the reason and prevent future failures.
Franchisability Criteria: Threshold Analysis, Part Two
The criteria used in determining franchisability should be appropriate for your industry and business, and will generally fall into these interrelated and interdependent major buckets.
Developing a Franchise System Correctly
The franchise system you ultimately develop, and the franchisor/franchisee relationships you establish, are all shaped by the determinations your make in your strategic plan.
Threshold Analysis Part Three: Available Franchisees
In Part Three of the Threshold Analysis, we’ll cover the different classes of franchisees and how to determine which class or classes you should be focusing on as you conduct your analysis.
The Accidental Franchise: All Franchises are Licenses
Too often in our practice at MSA Worldwide, clients will present to us a set of facts that their lawyers have determined is a license, but in reality is a franchise.
Threshold Analysis Part Four: Your Support System and Fees
Here in Part Four, we’ll cover the support system and fees to consider for your franchise system during the Threshold Analysis.