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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Can You Bootstrap a Franchise Business?
The expression started out as “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”—an impossible thing to do, so in the 19th century it meant a tall tale or an impossible claim.
Franchise Turnover Rates
A franchise’s turnover rate is the percentage of franchise locations that close in any given year. We found that about half the franchises in the data we checked had turnover rates of 10% or less.
Planning for Innovation with Your Franchisor
Franchises range from companies that are dedicated to keeping their products and services fresh to companies that take a “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken” position.
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.