Hi, I'm not a cool savage. We're so excited to have you join us, our brand opening today.

We're going to be interviewing a very successful franchise owner, the founder of Successful Franchises, Plural.

And what I'm going to try to do is ask him 21 questions in 20 minutes. We'll see if I can keep up, but if he can keep up, now that he further ado, Peter Totten will come onto the thrifetime show. How are you, sir?

Hey, Clay, I'm doing great. Thanks for out and good to be back.

So tell us just briefly your background so that people out there know why you have some some credibility on this topic of franchising.

Well, you know, I've been franchising for about 25 years and on three separate occasions, I've created brands and grown those brands to over a thousand locations in fact today across those three brands. I've got roughly 5,000

locations in 28 countries. I'm just launching my fourth beyond right now. I'm two years into it. And in that time, we've awarded almost 180 territories, 54 stores open. We've got about 50 to 60 stores actively under construction. So I pride my stuff, been really understanding franchising enough one, but two most important things that we've got to do is to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going

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the snap fitness, nine round and fitness on demand. My fourth brand is called

nautical bulls. That's the one I mean, I'm actually involved with right now.

I'm one of the co-founders in CEO of that brand. And you know, we're we're just

off to the races. Now we're getting into the weeds now. Here we go question number

three here. Um, I know a lot of very successful franchise owners, you know,

people that own multiple franchises, we would call those franchisees. Not the

founders of the franchise, we call those franchiseors, but the franchisees,

people that own multiple little seizures or multiple sports clips or

multiple brands. And they're very successful. And they tell me what they love

about it is that the corporate already thought about everything. And now their

job is just to knock out the daily action items. So they love the idea that

it's very repeatable. It's very repetitive. And that they don't have to worry

about it not working if they just follow the systems. And I've also met a lot

of people that are not successful in franchising. And what they're looking for

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