Franchise Advisory Board | Expert Franchising Advice for Franchise Leaders
Sep 22, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
A business can have strong demand and a compelling service without being ready to franchise. Building a model that other owners can operate profitably takes a different kind of work.On this episode of…
If you had any advice for somebody listening today, kind of a final parting thought of, you know, the litmus test for like, should you really be franchising your business?
Yeah, should you be franchising your business? Man, my advice, and this has been, I...
You can hear it say over and over and over, people will say franchising is a different business than what you currently operate.
And it truly is, but not maybe in the way that I think a lot of people who say that mean it.
Generally speaking, and this is when we think about what's our responsibility to our franchisees, this is for us.
The number two thing that most of us are, we run a marketing or customer acquisition business because we need to have a playbook and systems and all that dialed in for customer acquisition.
For us, the number three is we run a product supply business because of the nature of what we do.
Really understand what your business model is once you become a franchisor and know that it is to be a coach, coaching people in and out of the development process.
Their failure will be disclosed in your FDD, and you're going to have some, but it's going to be disclosed.
If you had any advice for somebody listening today, kind of a final parting thought of, you know, the litmus test for like, should you really be franchising your business?
Yeah, should you be franchising your business? Man, my advice, and this has been, I...
You can hear it say over and over and over, people will say franchising is a different business than what you currently operate.
And it truly is, but not maybe in the way that I think a lot of people who say that mean it.
Generally speaking, and this is when we think about what's our responsibility to our franchisees, this is for us.
The number two thing that most of us are, we run a marketing or customer acquisition business because we need to have a playbook and systems and all that dialed in for customer acquisition.
For us, the number three is we run a product supply business because of the nature of what we do.
Really understand what your business model is once you become a franchisor and know that it is to be a coach, coaching people in and out of the development process.
Their failure will be disclosed in your FDD, and you're going to have some, but it's going to be disclosed.
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