260: Is a Franchise Right for You?
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Is a Franchise Business the right fit for you? Henry Lopez and Sara Waskow, a Franchise Specialist and owner of FranNet DFW, introduce the franchise business model, explore common myths and misconceptions about franchising, and discuss the common characteristics and skills of successful small business franchise owners. Visit the show notes page for the free "6 Franchise Myths" document to learn more.
Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the how of business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:12.9 | And now here are your hosts. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Henry Lopez, and my guest today is Sarah Laskal. |
| 0:19.9 | Sarah, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:22.4 | Thank you so much, Henry. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah, I'm excited to have you back on. This is a topic we chat about a lot, franchising. |
| 0:30.2 | But we're going to start doing another series of episodes. And I'm having Sarah back on because, as you might recall, |
| 0:36.8 | but I'll soon explain to you, she is an |
| 0:38.7 | expert in this field. That's what she does, as she helps people find the right franchise business |
| 0:43.8 | for them. So we're going to chat today about beginning to help you decide if a franchise is right |
| 0:50.0 | for you. So we'll cover this at a high level here in our episode as we usually do on the |
| 0:56.1 | How Web Business. But then we've got an upcoming webinar that I'll tell you about in a moment. |
| 1:00.9 | That's where we're going to get into even more detail and you'll have an opportunity to ask |
| 1:05.8 | questions. So that's exciting. I'm excited to do a co-webinar with Sarah. If you want to receive more information, either on this topic or where to go register, |
| 1:15.2 | because you do need to register, even though it's free, you need to register for this webinar. |
| 1:19.8 | As well as I've got a download, a free download for you that I've entitled Six Myths of Franchising, |
| 1:26.4 | and I wrote that with Sarah's help. So you've got the |
| 1:29.1 | download, you've got the free webinar coming up, all of that, just text the word biz, V-I-Z, to 31996, |
| 1:37.9 | and I'll send you a link with all of that information, right? So let me tell you again about Sarah. |
| 1:43.0 | Sarah Waskow is a repeat guest, as I mentioned, |
| 1:46.1 | on our show. I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Sarah for several years now. |
| 1:51.9 | She was on our podcast back in episode 18. So several years ago, she was one of my early guest. |
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