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Discover our collection of essential resources on training and support tailored for your success in franchising. Gain insights into the best practices, training programs, and ongoing expert advice to excel in your franchise journey. Equip your business with the tools and knowledge to thrive and reach your potential!

Published at 03/12/2025

Why Food & Beverage Franchisees Should Diversify Into Care Franchising and Unlock Double the Profit Margins

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Published at 14/11/2025

Franchise Mythbusters: The Truth About Local Marketing and How to Win Locally

Updated on 06/11/2025

5 Tips for Running a Home Care Franchise

Fast Food Industry

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Updated on 27/10/2025

5 Tips for Building a Business Plan for a Successful Fast Food Franchise

Marketing

Published at 02/10/2025

AI for Local Marketing: Beating the Competition in Your Territory

Updated on 23/09/2025

Do you have the profile that franchise networks are fighting over?

Thinking of joining a franchise? Discover whether you have the traits franchisors are looking for. From entrepreneurial drive to people skills, this article explores what makes an ideal franchisee and helps you decide if the model is right for you.

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Published at 22/09/2025

The State of AI in UK Franchising: Adoption, Opportunities, and Challenges

AI adoption is rising fast across UK franchising. From recruitment to marketing, the opportunities are huge, but so are the fears. Discover how franchises can overcome barriers like cost, complexity, and job security concerns to make AI a powerful partner in growth.

Published at 05/09/2025

The UK's Expanding Franchise Sector: The Factors Contributing to the Model's Success

It is nearly impossible to attain certainty in business, regardless of the industry. Even with a brilliant idea, a strong work ethic, or an amazing product or service, success is never truly guaranteed.

Published at 01/08/2025

Tips for Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment and selection are key parts of . If you want to source and appoint the best workers, you’ll need to examine your hiring process and make sure it is as streamlined and efficient as it could be.

Updated on 23/06/2025

Franchise Operations Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Success

Franchising models continue to evolve and give entrepreneurs an opportunity to thrive in business. An extensive franchise operations manual is necessary to succeed in this new endeavour.

Updated on 23/06/2025

What to Look for When Hiring Employees for Your Sports, Fitness or Gym Franchise

With rising interest in healthy, active lifestyles, demand in the fitness sector is growing, and so is the workforce. This is great news for fitness franchisees eager to expand by hiring new team members. With so many candidates, how can you ensure you’re choosing the best people for your franchise?

Updated on 23/06/2025

Franchisee Recruitment: How to Find the Best Candidates for Your Franchise

Running a franchise means your employees are the heartbeat of your business.

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Updated on 14/06/2025

What People Don’t Know About Franchising in the UK

When most people think about franchising in the UK, a few well-known brands immediately come to mind: McDonald’s, Subway, Costa Coffee, perhaps even Anytime Fitness or The Body Shop. But franchising is much broader—and more complex—than fast food and gyms.

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Updated on 13/06/2025

How to Value a UK-Based Franchise Resale

Buying a franchise resale can be a smart move. Instead of starting from scratch, you gain access to an existing business with a proven model, current customers, possibly trained staff, and established revenue streams.

clever way to protect your mental health as a franchise

Updated on 19/05/2025

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 profitable and managing operations throughout the day, so it’s no wonder many overlook their mental health.

Updated on 07/04/2025

Exploring the Franchising Opportunity for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Franchising has long been a cornerstone of entrepreneurship in the UK, providing a way for individuals, like you, to start your business with the backing of a proven brand and established systems.

Updated on 07/04/2025

New Year, New You: Transform Your Life Through Franchising in 2025

As the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, the air is thick with the promise of new beginnings. The New Year symbolizes a clean slate, an opportunity to reimagine ourselves and set ambitious goals.

Published at 07/04/2025

Why Home Services Businesses Could Thrive in 2025 and Should Be Franchised in the UK ?

The home services industry—encompassing everything from cleaning, plumbing, and gardening to pest control, smart home installation, and elderly care—has undergone a significant transformation in recent years.

Updated on 21/11/2024

Starting a New Business Doesn't Always Lead to Immediate Success: Here Are 5 Ways to Change That

It’s safe to say that starting a new business doesn’t always lead to immediate success, but there are some things you can do to make sure it stands the best chance.

Updated on 21/11/2024

How To Buy A Franchise In 7 Easy Steps

As we slowly but surely progress towards the end of 2020, despite the economy, franchising remains incredibly buoyant, with some franchisors recording record levels of enquiries from potential franchisees, so it appears that there is still good news to be had! No doubt you will already have a keen

Updated on 21/11/2024

A Part Time Franchise For Additional Income

Maybe some of you reading this are under increased pressure financially and looking at options to generate additional revenue, options might be limited if you are already working part or full time, with family constraints too, there is a lot that can get in the way isn’t there! There is some good

Updated on 20/11/2024

Minimising Risk – Disciplinary Hearings

If during a disciplinary investigation meeting the employee is unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for their behaviour and there is a case to answer, then a disciplinary hearing is probably on the horizon.

Updated on 18/11/2024

2021 And The Boom Year For Work From Home Franchises

It is a myth that franchising is reserved just for the bigger players with the deepest pockets, however, it is often a justified opinion because those companies are indeed the ones who usually have the marketing power to shout about their franchise offer.

Updated on 18/11/2024

Lending our support to the franchising boom

Driven by the UK’s entrepreneurial spirit and with 90% of franchisees reporting profitability1, it's easy to understand why franchising is experiencing significant growth. Latest figures show franchising contributes £17.

Updated on 18/11/2024

Why Franchising Will Continue To Grow In 2021

Even the most optimistic of us will accept that this year has had it’s challenges, off the back of the Brexit debate and, the turmoil that followed, and then somewhat of a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime Pandemic piggy-backing on the tail-end of that too, then, as this article is being written a

Updated on 18/11/2024

How We Are Ideally Placed To Unite Franchising In 2021

Some of you reading this might recall 1992 and the Queen’s speech referring to that year being I would think most of us reading this article right now would agree that 2020 would seemingly be on par with the Queen’s thoughts back then.

Updated on 18/11/2024

Should I Buy A Franchise?

You might have already had the dream of owning your own business, one day! There are a few ways to do this, one of the most proven, and successful ways for sure is to do it through the franchising option, but for complete balance, it is fair to say that this option is definitely not for everyone,

Updated on 18/11/2024

Are You Even Able To Franchise Your Business?

If you look around you, many of the businesses that you see, or indeed use on a daily basis, are very likely to be part of a franchised network, they might well be independently run with maybe a husband and wife or father and son perhaps, but behind the scenes there could be also be a franchisor

Updated on 18/11/2024

Is The UK Becoming A Safe Bet For International Franchises?

The level of success of a franchise entity compared with a stand-alone business is well documented, but how about an already successful overseas franchise network looking to branch out into new countries, in this short report we discuss some of the elements why franchisors are so keen to explore

Updated on 18/11/2024

Unlock Your Business Valuation Through Franchising

One day you will exit your business, hopefully it will be a planned exit, sometimes business exits are not done in a way that suits the owner out of necessity, but knowing you will exit at some point, let’s discuss how you can probably exit at much higher values through franchising than you might

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Updated on 18/11/2024
Why 2022 Can Be The Golden Year For Franchising
It has been widely accepted that any New Year brings about change, it is as good a time as ever, and due to events of the past couple of years, more people than ever will be looking into their employment options, this could be the best time ever for the franchising sector! The Franchising Sector
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