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Franchising 101: 8 Essential Marketing Strategies for Promoting Your Business

Franchising 101: 8 Essential Marketing Strategies for Promoting Your Business

Implementing effective marketing strategies is essential if your business is going to thrive in a marketplace that is already crowded. So, [...]

7 Tips for Marketing Your Hair, Beauty or Cosmetics Business

7 Tips for Marketing Your Hair, Beauty or Cosmetics Business

If you’re running a hair, beauty or cosmetics business, you’re going to want to stand out from the crowd to attract clients and [...]

10 Tips for Marketing Your Sports, Fitness or Gym Franchise

10 Tips for Marketing Your Sports, Fitness or Gym Franchise

If you’re thinking about starting your own fitness franchise, you’ll be interested to know the creative ways that you can market [...]

Spring Cleaning Your Business: 12 Tips for Setting Up Your Business for Year-Long Success

Spring Cleaning Your Business: 12 Tips for Setting Up Your Business for Year-Long Success

Before you know it, flowers will start blooming, temperatures will rise and days will get longer. With it coming up to spring, we thought we’d [...]

Top 6 Valentine’s Day Promotions on the Point Franchise Network

Top 6 Valentine’s Day Promotions on the Point Franchise Network

With Valentine’s Day soon approaching, we thought it would be fun to look at the top promotions from the franchises on our network. In doing [...]

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 [...]

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Hair and Beauty Franchise

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Hair and Beauty Franchise

  Looking and feeling good is very important to the British public, and we’re happy to part with a significant amount of cash in [...]

5 Tips for Protecting Your Franchise’s Reputation During a Brand Crisis

5 Tips for Protecting Your Franchise’s Reputation During a Brand Crisis

In this series, we provide tips on starting a franchise and the process of running your own business. This article focuses on how important [...]

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Retail Clothing Franchise

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Retail Clothing Franchise

  If you’ve got an eye for fashion and love keeping up with the latest trends, starting your own fashion business might have always [...]

Day in the Life: What it Takes to Run Your Own Fitness Franchise

Day in the Life: What it Takes to Run Your Own Fitness Franchise

In this article we’ll look at what you can expect your day to look like when running a fitness franchise on a daily basis. We’ll [...]

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Home Care Franchise

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Home Care Franchise

  In this article we’ll look at what you can expect when you’re running a home care franchise on a daily basis, the advantages [...]

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Fast Food Franchise

Day in the Life: What It Takes to Run Your Own Fast Food Franchise

Consumers increasingly opt for eateries that feed into busy lifestyles, making now a great time to open your own fast-food franchise. In this [...]

Franchising 101: 6 Tips for Building Customer Loyalty Through Marketing

Franchising 101: 6 Tips for Building Customer Loyalty Through Marketing

  In this article we’ll look at the value of building customer loyalty for your franchise business and some useful tools to keep [...]

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 [...]

8 Tips for Running a Burrito Restaurant Franchise

8 Tips for Running a Burrito Restaurant Franchise

Barmy for burritos? Read on to discover how you can start your own franchise offering the nutritious and filling meal. It’s safe to say [...]

7 Ways to Improve the Profit Margin of Your Franchise Restaurant

7 Ways to Improve the Profit Margin of Your Franchise Restaurant

If you’re a business owner, you’ll want to generate as much profit as possible. Profit margins are hugely important when [...]

Franchising 101: The Pros and Cons of Multi-Brand Franchising

Franchising 101: The Pros and Cons of Multi-Brand Franchising

If you’re an ambitious franchise owner that’s considering growing through multi-brand franchising, read on to discover its pros and cons, and [...]

The 5 Perks of Being an Area Developer

The 5 Perks of Being an Area Developer

Ambitious businesspeople may have their sights set higher than just establishing a single franchise unit. In this case, the role of Area [...]

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 [...]

Franchise Success Stories: How to Run a Successful Franchise According to the UK's Top...

Franchise Success Stories: How to Run a Successful Franchise According to the UK's Top...

There’s lots of advice out there on how to run a successful franchise. So much, in fact, that it can be overwhelming when you’re just [...]

The differences between B2B and B2C marketing

The differences between B2B and B2C marketing

While you might think that the processes involved in business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing should be fairly similar, there [...]

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 [...]

Why you need a PR strategy for your business

Why you need a PR strategy for your business

Ask any business owner about the importance of having a robust business plan in place, and they'll tell you that it's essential to the success [...]

Developing an effective franchise marketing plan

Developing an effective franchise marketing plan

Perhaps you’re a high-flying franchisor with plenty of industry experience. Or maybe you’re a new franchisee, having signed the contract, [...]

Franchise relationship management: 5 key ways to manage it

Franchise relationship management: 5 key ways to manage it

In successful franchises, the franchisor and franchisees must develop robust relationships. A franchise relationship management system is [...]

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 [...]

How to promote your business

How to promote your business

As a franchisor, creating consistent and dependable techniques to attract franchisees is crucial to your success. But enticing quality and [...]

How to use social media for your business

How to use social media for your business

64 percent of the UK population have got an active social media account. Whether you’re fanatical about Facebook, inspired by Instagram or [...]

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 [...]