Franchise Profile: Dickey’s Barbecue

Have you been to your local Dickey’s BBQ? Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants have been serving up some of the most mouthwatering, lip smacking, great tasting barbecue since 1941. Today, Dickey’s are opening up all over North America.

Dickey’s Philosophy

It’s simple: they want to find the right Owner/Operator first. Second, they use their site selection model to find the right location. Then they assist every step of the way in building a great restaurant and setting their operators up for success.

Dickey’s has evolved over the years, changing the public’s perception of barbecue and taking the category mainstream. The Dickey’s restaurant concept is authentic, inviting and well planned. They aim for 1,800 sq. ft. end-cap or free standing locations to maximize the profitability of our stores.

Perks

Each new Dickey’s Owner/Operator will have full advantage of the decades of experience, improvements and upgrades, attention to detail and the high quality standards established and maintained by the Dickey family. The Dickey’s franchise program features:

  • Site location assistance
  • Floor plan design and layout
  • Thorough training in management, operations and marketing
  • Field support and group purchasing power
  • Protected territories
  • Comprehensive accounting procedures
  • Turn key assistance
  • The knowledge and experience to help you succeed

 

Interested in learning more? Check it out here!

 

Using LinkedIn For Your Business?

I have been paying a closer attention lately to the way in which franchise professionals utilize social media platforms. Specifically this week, I wanted to take a closer look at how LinkedIn is being used in the franchise industry. LinkedIn is a hot topic in the social networking realm right now. Everyone wants to know how to best leverage LinkedIn for their various needs. Franchisors, franchisees, and suppliers all see opportunity in the networking site, but many question how exactly they can use the platform to their benefit.

With a database of more than 238 million individuals, LinkedIn provides a great pool of prospective franchisees and customers. How can franchise professionals tap into this resource? They can start with their profile page. A new article in Franchising World’s November issue gives some tips about how you should go about revamping your page. First, look at your page from an outsider’s view. Does it read like a resume? If you’re seeking employment, that is one thing. But if you are not, it may be time to rewrite your profile to target whichever prospect or customer or prospective employee that you would like to engage.  People are using LinkedIn to better know you. You must actively choose a message: what do you want people to know about you and your company?

The article says that as you read through your LinkedIn profile, you must ask yourself whether your profile answers these questions that the reader may have:

–          Should I pay this person money?

–          Can I trust this person?

–          Can this person help me with my objectives (franchise ownership, employment, doing business)?

–          What benefits does this person and his company provide?

–          Does this person have the ability to help me make a significant decision?

–          Does this person look trustworthy and credible?

 

What is all really comes down to is making your profile a welcome mat to your company. You want to seem approachable, communicable and transparent. People want to do business with people they like and feel at ease with. Let your LinkedIn profile be a peak into your company’s missions and future goals. What LinkedIn tips do you have for fellow franchise professionals?

TapSnap: A Fun, Flexible Franchise

TapSnap Portable Photo Booth is the photo booth for the digital era. TapSnap is a sophisticated, portable “phototainment” system that can be rented for any party or event. An attendant accompanies the booth at each outing, so that the guests can relax and enjoy the event. It is also an exciting franchise opportunity.

With TapSnap, you have the potential to earn more money in one day than most people do in a week, while participating in exciting events and parties. You can earn over $1,400 per event while helping clients create fabulous photo memories  – everything from parties, weddings, trade shows, corporate functions and charity events. With Tap Snap, work will never be the same again.

With as little as $32K, you can be up and running in your own TapSnap franchise within 45 days. TapSnap events typically take place on evenings or weekends so you can become your own boss while keeping the stability of your regular employment. Or you can just enjoy the tremendous potential of part-time work, with full-time pay.

Benefits of being a franchisee include:

  • A proven business development program –12 years of experience helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses
  • SnapCentral – our national reservations center provides prospects and handles your calls and inquiries
  • SnapBook software streamlines your success
  • National marketing program generates prospects for franchisees and helps to ensure that they are already familiar with our brand

To learn more and to hear from current TapSnap franchisees, read on here: http://franchisebuy.com/franchise/Tap-Snap-Portable-Photo-Booth

It’s in the Water: Brooklyn Water Bagels

What makes a good bagel good? Any New Yorker will tell you it’s the water.

Bagels, first introduced to America by Polish-Jewish immigrants in the 1880s, have become a signature bread in New York City and its surrounding boroughs. When Polish immigrants passed through Ellis Island, they brought with them the delicious recipe, which is said to be made best with New York City tap water.

Many New York bagel enthusiasts claim that when transient populations of New Yorkers first got down to places like South Carolina and Florida and began making bagels, they realized that while their flour and ingredients were the same, their bagels did not taste the same. The missing ingredient was, of course, the tap water. New York City tap water has a pH level of 7.2; whereas a pH of 7.0 is considered pure water. The pH level affects the way in which proteins in the mixture denature, and therefore can cause a change in the way the yeast rises and the dough tastes.  Additionally, New York City water has optimal quantities of calcium and dissolved minerals, strengthening the wheat protein and causing the bagel to taste chewier – a texture many bagel lovers enjoy.

So what is a bagel shop in Florida to do? In steps Brooklyn Water Bagels, a bagel shop franchise originated in Delray Beach, Florida. The CEO, Steven Fassberg, a Brooklynite relocated to the Delray area, began working on recreating New York City’s tap water with his own machinery, adding ingredients like calcium and magnesium to replicate the makeup of the water.  When he perfected the water, bada-bing, he began making bagels that tasted just like a New York authentic bagel.

Today, Brooklyn Water Bagel has locations all over the country. Serving everything from breakfast sandwiches to iced coffee made with frozen coffee cubes, Americans everywhere can enjoy a good ol’ New York bagel.  The proprietary water treatment technology system that the franchise has at each location “Brooklynizes” the water, as they call it, and is designed “to provide limited maintenance operation for the franchisee via satellite monitoring of each store’s water system to ensure consistent quality.”

Is there a Brooklyn Water Bagels near you? Leave comments below!

Franchise Profile: Planet Beach


Own the Hottest Concept in the Multi-Billion-Dollar Spa, Wellness and Beauty Industry!

 

Planet Beach, the world’s largest automated spa franchise, is a unique, innovative, membership-based spa franchise. At Planet Beach, customers experience self-automated day spa treatments and rejuvenating wellness services affordably, conveniently, and privately without the need for an attendant.

  • Minimal staffing requirements keep your operating costs down
  • A low-overhead, easy-to-operate concept
  • The strength of an industry leader
  • Widespread appeal and a highly desirable customer base
  • Multiple potential revenue streams

 

Capitalize on the Demand for Spa Services

 

With appearance-minded, health-conscious consumers increasingly seeking services that focus on the mind-body connection, now is an ideal time to own a Planet Beach franchise of your own. As a Planet Beach franchisee, you’ll be well-positioned in a thriving industry. In fact:

  • Currently, consumers are spending over $125 billion in the health and wellness arena.
  • Health and wellness is projected to be a trillion dollar industry by 2012.
  • Our price-point facilitates increased membership sales and repeat business.

 

You’ll Own a Business that Offers a Wide-Range of Sought-After Services

  • Four types of massages.
  • Two types of facials.
  • Teeth whitening.
  • Oxygen and UV therapy.
  • Weight management treatments.
  • Mystic spray tans.
  • A wide range of skincare and nutrition products.

 

You’ll Receive a Proven Business System and Unsurpassed Support

 

When you join Planet Beach as a franchise owner, you will receive a support system that is unsurpassed. Their team of professionals will guide you through every step of the process. The Planet Beach business system features:

  • Comprehensive training
  • Pre-sale program startup field training
  • Exclusive territory.
  • Site selection guidance, as well as design and construction assistance.
  • Financing assistance.
  • Staff recruitment assistance
  • Grand opening assistance
  • Onsite field support
  • Marketing support
  • Ongoing training and consulting
  • Annual conventions.

 

If you possess an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in becoming part of a fun and dynamic business focused on growth, excitement and mental and physical wellness, this may be the ideal opportunity for you!

 

To learn more about the Planet Beach franchise opportunity, please submit your information to the franchise developer here: http://www.franchisebuy.com/franchise/Planet-Beach.

 

Franchise Profile: OneClick Cleaners

OneClick Cleaners has the only online fully functional, full service website allowing customers to sign up online, enter cleaning preferences, set schedules and pickups all from the home or office.

 

The OneClick Cleaners™ Quick Start Program offers more start-up support than any other dry cleaning franchise, as a portion of the initial franchise fee will go towards equipment, supplies and start-up marketing & advertising material for your business. With OneClick Cleaners™ you can provide dry cleaning and laundry services, tailoring, shoe repair as well as other service-related conveniences for single & multifamily homes, apartment complexes, office buildings, retail centers, schools or any other institutions that require service on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. The first day you go out is the first day you start making money!

 

 

OneClick’s Quick Start Program will Jumpstart your Business!

Quick Start franchise owners will be assigned a professional start up coach to work one-on-one with you and develop a customized marketing plan for your area; specialized market impact groups to encourage business development and best practices; and reduced overall start-up costs.

 

Quick Start franchise owners benefit from..

  • Limited time reduced franchise fee
  • Low minimum down payment
  • Start-up equipment, supplies & marketing materials
  • In-house direct financing available
  • A professional start-up coach for the first year
  • A customized marketing & advertising plan

 

To learn more about this franchise opportunity and how to get started, please visit the following link: http://www.franchisebuy.com/franchise/OneClick-Cleaners. Fill out the form provided to submit information and request a meeting with OneClick’s franchise developer.

Why a Down Economy is the Perfect Time to Become an Entrepreneur

Anyone who recently graduated from college or lost their job through layoff knows how difficult it can be to find a new job. Not only are you competing against other graduates and laid off workers for the few available positions left in this down turned economy, but you have to hope that if you are lucky enough to land a new position you won’t wind up out on the street again in a few months.

 

So naturally the question has to be asked: Why would anyone want to put themselves through all that? And most people will probably say they wouldn’t, but they don’t know what else to do. Well, if you have ever contemplated starting your own business, now is the perfect time.

 

Resources are Less Expensive in a Down Economy

 

It’s happening at grocery stores and retail outlets, car dealerships and real estate offices. It’s happening in businesses all across the country. Prices are coming down, deals are being struck, and discounts are being offered. That’s why now is the time, when resources are less expensive, to strike out and start a new business.

 

The Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reports that since the mid-1990s, small businesses have generated over 60 percent of new jobs. A small business is defined as one with 500 or less employees. Plus the 2009 Recovery Act eliminates fees to borrowers and allows the SBA to guarantee up to 90 percent of each loan. Naturally having a conservative financial plan can help keep overhead costs low.

 

Talented People are in Abundance in a Down Economy

 

The fact is that there are a lot of people out there looking for the right business opportunity and not all of them have a great idea for starting a new company. But they do have talent and are eager to get onboard with a winning idea. Donnie Deutsch of the television show “The Big Idea” indicated in an interview that now is the time to find people “on the cheap,” whether that means employees or vendors.

 

That means savvy entrepreneurs need to put their networking skills to work and make a connection with people who they can partner with and who can help make the company a success. In fact, 64 percent of entrepreneurs surveyed for the book “Upstarts: How Gen Y Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business” indicated they started their company with a partner.

 

The Larger Companies Cut Back in a Down Economy

 

According to Julie Lenzer Kirk, award winning entrepreneur and author, “As the economy is struggling, so are all those businesses with overhead and large payrolls. They’re busy bailing the water to keep their ships afloat. Starting up now, when you can be flexible and nimble means that you can float right by those sinking ships. After all, customers still need stuff – they’re still spending money, just not enough. The new business can be created to give them what they need – whatever that is – while everyone else is busy bailing.”

 

Plus as larger, established organizations cut their budgets because of decreased revenues, they are in no position to start a new venture. That means now is the perfect time for entrepreneurs to get started before someone else steals their great idea.

 

New Entrepreneur’s Have Less to Lose in a Down Economy

 

It may be scary, but college graduates especially have less to lose right now mainly because most of them don’t have a lot of financial commitments (except perhaps their student loans). They may still be living at home, without a mortgage or family to support, their needs are few and their willingness to sacrifice their own comfort is high.

 

In his article, “How Can Your Small Business Grow in a Down Economy?” small business coach Dave Westfall suggests that entrepreneurs not limit themselves. He illustrates how to expand a company by exploring other options, such as a private personal trainer now offering group training or a real estate property manager offering services to mortgage companies that want to rent out foreclosed homes.

 

It’s all about exploring options and finding those niche markets that others have overlooked or walked away from. And while it’s important that entrepreneurs select an opportunity that matches their interests and take the time to investigate it thoroughly, it is possible to become an entrepreneur in a down economy.