FranBlog

By and For the Franchise Community

Our FranBlog includes the best of franchise success stories from around the world. These personal accounts help you learn directly from the collective experiences of IFA’s franchise community.

Choose from a list of topics and read personal stories of challenge and success. Pick up helpful tips on franchising. Get marketing ideas for small business. Explore and discover the franchise community from within the franchise community.

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Returning from war and turning to franchising

John Turner spent 12 years in telecommunications for the Army, and then a few more working in management positions for companies like NEC Global and Cisco, according to an article by the Washington Post. All along, he knew he wanted to eventually be

March 05, 2012

News Round-Up

Sport Clips Haircuts Exceeds $1 Million in Donations to VFW's Operation Uplink™ Free Call Day Program

Kansas City, Mo. (January 31, 2012)- Sport Clips Haircuts today gave the Veterans of Foreign Wars a check in the amount of $450,000 for Operation Uplink™, a program that provides free "talk time" to deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members via

February 01, 2012

News Round-Up

KFC gives surprise reunion and $40k in scholarships to veteran's two daughters

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Teenage twins, Anita and Ashley Lee, thought they were at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Gaithersburg to box up care packages for their mom's unit in Afghanistan. But the care package they cared about most, walked right in. There wa

January 11, 2012

News Round-Up

Dina Dwyer-Owens, CEO of The Dwyer Group, to Appear on Undercover Boss

Dina Dwyer-Owens, Chairwoman and CEO of The Dwyer Group and former IFA chair, will appear on CBS's hit show "Undercover Boss," on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT.
Dina accepted the opportunity to go undercover within the Dwyer Group to exp

December 05, 2011

News Round-Up

IFA leadership on small business access to capital continues

As noted in today's POLITICO Morning Money newsletter, IFA continues to expand its "Small Business Access to Capital Coalition.
Following the POLITICO oped last week from IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira, Financial Services Roundtable President &

November 15, 2011

News Round-Up

We Can All Become Job Creators

When last we left the chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, in mid-August, he had written a widely publicized e-mail lamenting the poisonous state of our nation’s politics, according to an article by the New York Times.

That led him to hi

October 19, 2011

News Round-Up

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