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7 Tips for Choosing a Franchise with the Right Culture For You

7 Tips for Choosing a Franchise with the Right Culture For You

Choosing a franchise is hard. You'll need to keep several factors in mind, from reputability to revenue potential, budget to business support. [...]

3 Successful Franchises That Started Up During Lockdown

3 Successful Franchises That Started Up During Lockdown

If you thought that starting a successful franchise during lockdown would be an impossible mission, you’d be mistaken. In this article, we [...]

10 Clever Ways to Protect Your Mental Health as a Franchisee

10 Clever Ways to Protect Your Mental Health as a Franchisee

Running a business isn’t easy – in fact, it can be incredibly challenging at times. Franchisees are dedicated to making sure their unit is [...]

Why Your Perceived 'Worst Personality Traits' Can Actually Help You Become a Successful...

Why Your Perceived 'Worst Personality Traits' Can Actually Help You Become a Successful...

We’ve all got something we’d like to change about ourselves, but what if that ‘bad’ trait could make you a successful franchisee? Turns out, [...]

How to Stay Productive as a Franchisee

How to Stay Productive as a Franchisee

The biggest challenge for many franchisees is how to stay productive and make sure they’re achieving their goals. It’s not always clear how to [...]

5 Ways to Combat Loneliness When Working Alone

5 Ways to Combat Loneliness When Working Alone

Whether you’re working alone for the first time or have spent years flying solo, some working days can feel lonely. We’ve put together a list [...]

How to Protect Your Mental Health During Tough Times

How to Protect Your Mental Health During Tough Times

Staying mentally healthy when you’re experiencing difficult times can be hard. Even if you’ve never struggled with your mental health, [...]

Overcoming ‘Imposter Syndrome’ as a franchisee

Overcoming ‘Imposter Syndrome’ as a franchisee

Doubting your ability to run a business? Worried you don’t actually have what it takes? You could have Imposter Syndrome – a phenomenon [...]

4 Reasons Why It's Important to Build a Strong Business Support Network

4 Reasons Why It's Important to Build a Strong Business Support Network

A good support network can help you overcome the challenges of running a business. It can even be the difference between failure and [...]

4 Things Franchisees Never Have Time for But Are Essential for Running a Successful...

4 Things Franchisees Never Have Time for But Are Essential for Running a Successful...

Running a successful business can be hard work and you might feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. But if you’ve suddenly found [...]

5 Tips for Developing Your Employees into Future Franchisees

5 Tips for Developing Your Employees into Future Franchisees

Spotting the future franchisees within your franchise can be tricky, whether you’re planning on handing the business on soon or just want [...]

Being a Successful Franchisee Means Adopting an Entrepreneur Mindset

Being a Successful Franchisee Means Adopting an Entrepreneur Mindset

If you want to be a successful franchisee, you’ll need to adopt an entrepreneur mindset. Not sure how to be an entrepreneur? We’ve broken down [...]

7 Common Habits of Successful Franchisees

7 Common Habits of Successful Franchisees

Ever wondered what the recipe for a successful franchisee is? There are lots of common franchisee traits that are found in those who start a [...]

Five Tips for Boosting Your Self-Confidence as a Business Owner

Five Tips for Boosting Your Self-Confidence as a Business Owner

One of the cornerstones of how to be a good business owner is self-confidence, but many of us aren’t blessed with very much. If you’re on the [...]

10 Tips for Creating Work-Life Balance When Working From Home

10 Tips for Creating Work-Life Balance When Working From Home

Working from home is a luxury enjoyed by many franchisees up and down the country. But things can quickly unravel when you get the urge to [...]

The Best Soft Skills That Every Entrepreneur or Business Owner Should Learn Now

The Best Soft Skills That Every Entrepreneur or Business Owner Should Learn Now

If you find yourself at home with more time on your hands due to the COVID-19 crisis, you can use this as an opportunity to brush up on your [...]

20 Questions: How Can I Maintain My Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis?

20 Questions: How Can I Maintain My Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis?

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds across the world, many of us are experiencing more negative emotions than we otherwise would. You may be [...]

Lessons Learned: Real-Life Stories of Franchising Failure

Lessons Learned: Real-Life Stories of Franchising Failure

Running your own business can be nerve-wracking for a variety of reasons, and fear of failure stops many would-be entrepreneurs from [...]

Top 8 Tips for Being a Happy Franchisee

Top 8 Tips for Being a Happy Franchisee

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks involved in running a business. But how can you make sure you get the most out of [...]

Why Alex Markov Chose to be a Nationwide Cleaners Franchisee

Why Alex Markov Chose to be a Nationwide Cleaners Franchisee

Nationwide Cleaners investor Alex Markov told us about how he became a franchisee, as well as why he’d recommend the franchise to other [...]

10 Tips for Working From Home Like a Pro

10 Tips for Working From Home Like a Pro

With the UK Government advising everyone who can work from home to do so, millions are going to be adapting to the new working environment [...]

10 Traits of a Successful Estate Agent

10 Traits of a Successful Estate Agent

  If you’ve always been on the fence about starting a career in the estate agency industry and aren’t sure if you’ve got [...]

Franchise Success Stories: Inspiring Franchisees with Disabilities

Franchise Success Stories: Inspiring Franchisees with Disabilities

Your disability doesn’t need to hold you back, and a franchise is a fantastic way of running your own business with flexibility around your [...]

Franchising 101: 6 Top Contributors of Franchise Failure

Franchising 101: 6 Top Contributors of Franchise Failure

Every businessperson wants to avoid failure. Here, we outline some of the main reasons franchises fail and how you can take steps to make sure [...]

5 Essential Qualities of a Successful High Street Retail Franchise

5 Essential Qualities of a Successful High Street Retail Franchise

Though faced with tough economic conditions and political instability, the UK high street retail sector continues to make a significant [...]

The Qualities You Must Have to Run Your Own Wedding Events Company

The Qualities You Must Have to Run Your Own Wedding Events Company

  Weddings are often the most special event in an individual’s entire life. Consequently, anyone providing wedding services needs to [...]

Can a franchise make you rich?

Can a franchise make you rich?

Starting any business involves risk, a lot of hard work and dedication. To become a successful franchisee, you’ll be expected to roll up your [...]

The ideal franchisee

The ideal franchisee

When people talk about successful franchises, they usually attribute them to things like their business model, brand image or marketing [...]

How to succeed as a franchisee

How to succeed as a franchisee

There are many successful franchises, but just as with any business, they take hard work and dedication to become profitable. Whilst [...]

10 ways to come back ready for work after holiday

10 ways to come back ready for work after holiday

Whether you’re sunbathing on a white, sandy beach, trekking through the forest, or skiing in the Alps, holidays have to come to an end [...]