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Welcome to this episode of The How With Business. This is Henry Lopez. And my guest today is Ben Johnson Ben welcome to the show thank you very much

henry glad to be here yeah we're looking forward to this conversation we're going to chat about

financing options for franchise businesses now a lot of what we're going to talk about applies to

any kind of business that you're starting and are going to look for lending for, but we're going to look

at it very specifically, and I'm going to ask some questions have been looking at it from a

franchise perspective. That's a focus of several episodes that we've done on franchising, and there's

an upcoming webinar that I'll tell you more about in a moment.

But if you want to receive more information about franchising, including the free download,

I have a free download on this topic called Six Myths of Franchising.

There are a lot of misconceptions and myths about what franchising is and what it's not.

It's a great document that I've co-written with Sarah Waskow,

who's a franchising expert.

And so you can just text the word biz, B-I-Z, to 31996,

and I'll send you a link, reply,

and then you can easily download that free document.

So Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson is a VP of commercial lending at First Bank,

Texas. He's a lender, a certified business appraiser. He's an experienced senior business and credit analyst and portfolio manager, a loan broker, and a financial services professional. He's,

he's been all over the industry in different

roles. Prior to First Bank, Texas, he was an independent business consulting, consultant, rather,

working with Sentinel Financial Corporation and North Texas appraisers. In that role there,

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