Our #FranchiseeFriday this week is John Gurtler, owner of Rainbow International, a Neighborly company.

It is an incredibly exciting time to be in franchising and attempt to meet the wishes of this tsunami of opportunity on a global scale.

IFA is saddened by the passing of former IFA Chairman Richard B. Rennick, CFE.

This week’s Franchisee Friday is Shaun McCarthy, who owns Handyman Connection of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Each quarter, IFA hosts a Member Update Call to inform our members about the important initiatives we’re working on on behalf of the franchise community.

Get up to date on the latest news in the franchise community.

Franchisee Friday – Katherine Bhat and Kristine Tech of Woofie’s

The international market place is a complex and often uncertain environment that presents challenges many franchisors have not contemplated.

Email as a method of communication is no longer optional, it is a necessity.  Franchisees must be required to have, or be assigned, business email accounts to operate their businesses. To maintain brand consistency, it is in the franchisor’s interest that franchisees use email addresses that contain the franchisor’s domain name.

If others are doing well, people tend to be interested in what they are doing and how they’re doing it, so that they, too, can be successful. Sharing best practices is a key part attributing to the success of any organization. Similar to the old saying, “Learn from other’s mistakes,” it’s important to learn from individual experiences, but it’s much easier and more effective to learn from the experiences, mistakes and successes of others.