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Utilising the potential of your pilot franchise
Sally Butters is Director of Media at Coconut Creatives Sally Butters from Coconut Media discusses the need to use your pilot franchise for marketing: “It’s always important to ‘lead your pack’ and it...
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The key to a successful franchisee relationship
Richard Holden, head of franchising at Lloyds TSB Commercial Richard Holden of Lloyds TSB Commercial discusses the key to a successful franchisee relationship – becoming a great leader: “The...
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Territory Mapping – Fail to plan and you’re planning to fail
Jon Newsum-Smith, GIS Project Manager for Overview Mapping Jon Newsum-Smith of Overview Mapping discusses the importance of planning your franchise territories carefully: “I wish we’d paid closer...
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Your franchisees or your territories – which come first?
Carole Barlow, Director at Tech4T Carole Barlow of geographic territory specialists Tech4T answers: “This is always a thorny question. You’ve decided to expand your business by franchising, you need...
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Planning your franchise recruitment in the quiet summer season
Sarah Cook, Founding Director at Coconut Creatives Sarah Cook of Coconut Creatives discusses what you can do during the Summer months to improve your franchisee recruitment: “The franchise exhibitions...
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I want my money back – the Deposit Question
Fiona Boswell – Senior Associate Solicitor, Freeth Cartwright LLP Fiona Boswell of Freeth Cartwright LLP talks about changes to bfa guidance on prospective franchisee depotsits: “Recently the BFA has...
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Helping Franchisees Improve their Sales
Simon Pullum – Managing Director, Azura Group Simon Pullum of the Azura Group provides some ideas for keeping your franchisees’ sales up: “Many franchisees, unfortunately, do not put as much effort...
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Securing your future
Jason Patton, Managing Director of IGP Technology Jason Paton of IGP Technology provides some handy advice for keeping your franchise secure: “Many franchise businesses are built on providing services...
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An Implied Duty of Good Faith in English Law Franchise Agreements – is the...
Gordon Drakes, Senior Associate at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Gordon Drakes of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP discusses recent legal developments relating to good faith which may affect your franchise...
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Part 2 of planning your franchise recruitment in the quiet Summer season
Sarah Cook, Founding Director at Coconut Creatives Sarah Cook of Coconut Creatives continues her advice for how best to utilise the Summer months for your franchise recruit: “As mentioned in my June...
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Home Instead Senior Care named 2013 Franchisor of the Year
Home Instead Winning the Franchisor of the Year Award Cathryn Hayes of HSBC talks us through the results of the bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards. Here’s a summary: Gold Winner – Home Instead...
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The Annual bfa Conference – a great start to the Summer
Rhea Samrai of Dennis & Turnbull discusses the 2013 bfa conference: “The Annual British Franchise Association (BFA) Conference was held just a few weeks ago at London’s prestigious Senate House....
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Franchise territory mapping explained
Stuart Lee, Sales and Marketing Director of Atlas Mapping Put simply, territory mapping is the definition of the boundaries to which an individual franchisee is awarded under their franchise agreement....
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Part 3 of planning your franchise recruitment in the quiet summer season
Sarah Cook, Founding Director at Coconut Creatives The next installment of Sarah Cook’s series sees the Founding Director of Coconut Creatives give more ideas for how to maximise your franchise...
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Building a successful relationship with the bank
Cathryn Hayes Head of Franchising HSBC Bank plc Cathryn Hayes from HSBC gives some excellent advice on guiding your new franchisees through applying for finance: “Franchisors know the importance of...
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Monitoring customer satisfaction
Simon Pullum – Managing Director, Azura Group Simon Pullum of the Azura Group discusses strategies for monitoring that all-important customer satisfaction: “As franchisors, we always want to know how...
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What’s going on in the franchise world? Success Stories
Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing a new series of posts, keeping you on top of what’s going on in UK franchising. First up we’ll be sharing a few stories from our ‘Successful franchises’...
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New consumer laws update
Fiona Boswell – Senior Associate Solicitor, Freeth Cartwright LLP Fiona Boswell of Freeth Cartwright LLP talks about upcoming changes to consumer law, and how it will affecct franchisors. “This year...
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Successful women franchisees
Continuing on from our previous post, here are just some of the stories of successful women in franchising. From new starters to finalists in the Franchisee of the Year Awards, just click on the image...
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Maximise lead conversion at the National Franchise Exhibition 2013
Nick Strong, Chairman – Select Your Franchise Many thousands of pounds will be spent at the NFE in 2013 on generating franchise buyer leads by franchisors. So how can you maximise return from the NFE...
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