On today's show, Matt Klein, the franchise brand developer for oxy fresh carpet cleaning franchises,

joins us to share the five toughest aspects involved in owning and managing a franchise,

including how do you find the right people that can actually do the job? How do you push through

that ramp up period when the cash flow is not looking very good? How do you organize and manage

your day? How do you manage your cash flow and how do you stay on top of your taxes? All this

and more on today's interview with Mr. Matt Klein. Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to

introduce the show, but this show dies. Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women,

13 multi-million dollar businesses. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Shop.

Oh yes, yes, yes, and yes. Z and Z had another exciting edition of the Thrive Time Show on

your radio and podcast download. And for some reason, some reason, I have a fever and a cure could

be more cowbell. So we've got blowing my mind, Matt Klein on the phone here with oxy fresh based

in beautiful, beautiful Denver, Colorado. Matt, we're talking today about the five toughest

aspects of running a franchise. So once somebody unwraps the gift wrapping, once they fill out a form,

they learn more about oxy fresh. You send them a franchise disclosure document. They fly to

Denver, Colorado for a discovery day. And they decide to sign on the line. And you decide that

are a good fit. You award them a franchise. Now they have one in their own local city. Matt, what

is the toughest aspect of running a franchise? We got the top five. If you had to say the top,

the toughest challenge of running a franchise, what is it, my friend? Yeah, I think then thanks

for letting me be on the show today for us. And I think every other business, I don't think this is

just, you know, specific to one industry or one business. It is absolutely finding the right people.

And it's not just finding the right people that can do the job. It's finding the right people that

are going to work alongside you and what your vision is and how you can get there with a group of

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