Making the most of retirement may mean turning your savings, company buyout, or retirement into income by starting a business after 50. For a variety of reasons, more and more workers aged 50 and older are starting new businesses. In fact, a recent study that analyzed trends in entrepreneurship shows that 25.1% of new business owners in 2019 were between the ages of 55 and 64. This is definitely not your parents’ retirement!

A fragmented search engine optimization (SEO) strategy means wasted resources for a franchise brand. With 97 percent of internet users searching online for a local business, it also means lost opportunities via less-focused targeting for your franchisees. More results of such mistakes include brand inconsistencies, hit-or-miss lead generation and stunted revenue growth.

Universal Background Screening has seen a significant industry rise in both litigation and brand tarnishment due to the increasingly strict and ever-changing laws pertaining to employment background screening.  Not all background screening firms are alike in providing their clients compliance, quality and support, which is why it is important to choose the right background screening firm for your organization (whether as a preferred or required vendor).

One of the primary reasons that entrepreneurs select franchise business models is to help them mitigate the risk of starting a new business and for the franchise’s established brand and support. It’s common to hear that they initially considered starting their own business but grew concerned about the challenges of opening and operating their own company before turning to a franchise. Many of our current franchisees are former independent agents who, after running their own agencies, chose We Insure expressly because of the level of resources, structure and support system that our model provides. 

Eleven years after releasing their first city guide featuring locally owned businesses in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Scout Guide publishing franchise has guides in more than 60 markets, promoting more than 3,000 small businesses to a print circulation of more than one million and a digital audience of more than one million fans, followers, and email subscribers.

As consumers return to physical activity post quarantine or seek to reduce the aches and pains from a more stationary work-from-home lifestyle, yoga and pilates franchises are a strong investment for the second half of 2022.

Here are 10 trends you need to know if you’re hosting or attending an in-person event.

Four tips on how to grow your franchise system.

As sporting events, concerts, and other large gatherings pick up steam, sanitation franchises will be in high demand to meet strict restroom cleaning requirements, making them a strong investment for the second half of 2022 and beyond.

Like most businesses today, franchises are experiencing a dramatic shift in the structure and management of the workplace. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need adapt to new technologies and practices has become more urgent. The remote workplace, changing legislation, health and safety, the labor shortage—these are just a few of the challenges that have come front and center in the COVID-19 era