Strategic planning for franchisors to boost alignment, accountability, and execution with tools like Align.

Over here at Franchise GrowthLab, one of our specialties is franchise sales. We build a lot of systems for our clients, and for a select

Building your business into a franchise system will be one of the most important and expensive strategic moves you will make in the history of

I want to dispel one of the great lies of franchising: the low cost of launching a franchise system. Here at the Franchise GrowthLab, we

What Are Franchise Legal Agreements? When starting a franchise business, legal agreements are the a binding contract between a franchisee and franchisor which sets the

Franchising is a massive learning curve and a completely different business that needs to be mastered. Franchising is having a moment. During the economic disruption caused

Welcome to the 3rd part of our series on who should be your first key hire to help you scale your franchise business. In Part

Franchise Founder: which one are you? In the pursuit of making the right first hire as an emerging franchisor, my last blog post was focused

Find out who to hire in 4 easy steps One of the most frequently asked questions I get from emerging franchisors is: Who is

Most new franchisors underestimate how much money they need to franchise their business Back for Part 2 of the most common question we get when

Here at the Franchise GrowthLab, we do a lot of work with franchise start-ups. By far, the # 1 question we get from franchise

One day I was doing my rounds in the U.S., trying to determine the best way of our expansion across the border and into the

At the FranchiseLab, we do quite a bit of work in the franchise start-up space, and because we have launched so many systems of

In my last post, I wrote about the most important thing most emerging franchisors fail to master: the craft of franchise sales. I underscored how

When we launched our franchise consulting company, we knew that emerging franchise brands struggle with growth. The statistics don’t lie. As we dug into a number

One of the driving reasons we started the Franchise GrowthLab Consulting came from a combination of our experience building franchise brands across North America

Ha! I get asked the question “why did I start a franchise consulting company?” all of the time. When I sold my stake in our

It has been a year since my exit and the launch of our franchise consulting company. Let me be specific: my full exit. Five years ago,