Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley is founding member and CEO of America’s Best Franchises, LLC. Bill founded three financial services firms, Ocean Shores Ventures, Denali International and William Bradley Enterprises. In addition, to launching America’s Best Franchises in 2005, Bill orchestrated approximately 20 private equity transactions in excess of $31 million, and launched five specific purpose private equity partnerships.
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Is It a Franchise or a Lease?
2014 was an exciting year for franchises from a legal point of view, filled with high-profile cases that hit the headlines.
Are You Aware of All the Costs of a Franchise?
Deciding which franchise business opportunities you should invest in requires a lot of research and serious thought. One of the most important areas of the research and decision making process is the financial arena.
Can You Build a Franchise Business without Employees?
Employees are high on most lists of business owners’ concerns, whether they own a franchise business or some other kind of company. Look at all the issues that come with employees:
Understanding Franchise Royalty Fees
A franchise business opportunity will always involve upfront costs. Some will go to the franchisor and some will simply be the costs of opening a business—rent, wages, inventory, supplies, utilities, and so forth.
Franchises That Appeal to Millennials
The Baby Boomers have been the consumers to care about for a while now. But the Millennials are nearly as large a generation as the baby Boomers, and they are becoming a purchasing force to be reckoned with.
How Franchises Use Habits
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, reports on recent research on habits in humans. It turns out that the basal ganglia, a primitive part of the brain, controls habitual behavior.
The One Question You Must Ask a Franchisor
There are plenty of questions you should ask before you decide on a franchise business. But there’s one that would-be franchisees often fail to ask—and yet it can be one of the most informative.
Investing in an Existing Franchise
In a sense, all franchise business opportunities are existing businesses. No one is going to believe you if you say that you’re opening a Little Caesar’s or 7 Eleven start-up; the whole point of a franchise is that the business is already successful.
3 Keys to Franchise Success
Some franchises are ideal for part-time work while caring for family or keeping a day job. Others need a full-time commitment, even before you open the doors. Franchises vary in the amount of work and effort they require, but starting a business is always challenging and time-consuming.
Franchisees Gain Advantages of Self-Employment
We know that franchise businesses are important in the U.S. as employers—about one third of all the revenue in the U.S. flows through franchises and one in 16 American workers is employed at a franchise. But ownership is not the same as employment.