Dennis Schooley

Franchise Opportunity – Questions To Ask The Franchisor - What Are The Franchisor's Growth Plans?

Finding The Right Franchise Whether it's hamburgers, pizza, telecom, coffee, Internet, muffler parts, or seniors' services, there are Franchise opportunities available to evaluate. There are great Franchise systems, good Franchise systems, and bad Fran... Read >

Franchise Opportunity – Questions To Ask The Franchisor - Is The Franchise Scalable?

Finding The Right Franchise Whether it's hamburgers, pizza, telecom, coffee, Internet, muffler parts, or seniors' services, there are Franchise opportunities available to evaluate. There are great Franchise systems, good Franchise systems, and bad Fran... Read >

Franchise Opportunity – Questions To Ask The Franchisor - Who are The Competitors?

Finding The Right Franchise Whether it's hamburgers, pizza, telecom, coffee, Internet, muffler parts, or seniors' services, there are Franchise opportunities available to evaluate. There are great Franchise systems, good Franchise systems, and bad Fran... Read >

Franchises and Basic Concepts of Business

In order to truly understand the concept of Franchising, an exploration of the basic concepts of business is required. There is no magic in that. It just makes sense in order to provide clarity about the Franchising strategy. Franchising is not a busin... Read >

Why Do I Pay A Royalty Fee?

The first point to make about Royalties is that good Franchise systems should look at them not as a payment but rather as a remittance. It is the Franchisor's share of the income derived from customers or clients. The Franchisee collects that fee along wi... Read >

Telecom Trends and Predictions

My, how our dictionary has changed. Podcast, Skype, Wikipedia, Googlebot and WiMax were all regularly used terms during 2005. VoIP, WiFi, Blog, iPod, and SEO are in every day vocabularies. By the way, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization just in case... Read >

Franchise Opportunity – Questions To Ask The Franchisor - #1

Finding The Right Franchise Whether it's hamburgers, pizza, telecom, coffee, Internet, muffler parts, or seniors' services, there are Franchise opportunities available to evaluate. There are great Franchise systems, good Franchise systems, and bad Fran... Read >

VoIP - A Layman's Look - Should You or Shouldn't You?

So what's all this VoIP hype anyway? I mean we all know that our voice can be delivered to the four corners of the globe over telephone lines. (Actually, I missed that part of second grade math where they taught us that a ball has corners, but everybody s... Read >

Franchises - Emotional Fulfillment – The Challenge

Does A Franchise Meet Your Needs? Do you look forward to Friday afternoon or Monday morning? Perhaps that's the true litmus test of happiness. If you're thinking about the fact that there's only one day to go before the weekend, when you just got back ... Read >

Franchises – What's The Exit Strategy?

At an International Franchising Symposium in London, Peter Holt made the bold statement to his audience of Franchisors that they needed to understand that their business would fail, and in fact all businesses are bound for failure. Needless to say, there ... Read >

Wi-Fi vs. WiMax – Wi Do I Care?

Wi Fi Fo Fum, I think I smell the blood…oops wrong tale. This story doesn't involve giants, but it does involve giant leaps forward in technology that will affect us all. The other day I was watching two kids play. Each had a tin can up to their ear an... Read >

Franchise Opportunity – 5 Questions to Ask About The Franchise

Franchising has become one of the most important and effective business growth strategies in the past quarter century. Although franchise system development dates back centuries to the times when monarchs awarded territories to tax collectors, current f... Read >

Franchise Opportunity – 5 Considerations

In addition to the many questions that you should pose to a potential Franchisor, and the many questions they should pose to you, there are several other considerations for you to determine your compatibility with a particular Franchise system. If you are... Read >