{"id":29810,"date":"2019-03-06T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?page_id=29810"},"modified":"2019-12-10T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:40:39","slug":"most-important-part-of-buying-a-franchise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/most-important-part-of-buying-a-franchise","title":{"rendered":"Franchising: Do Research The Right Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad always told me this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If you&#8217;re going to do it, at least do it right<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when you&#8217;re thinking of doing something big-like <strong>buying a franchise<\/strong>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/how-to-research-a-franchise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> you better do it right<\/a>. Otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/closed-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/closed-1-620x413.jpeg\" alt=\"closed franchise business\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it behooves you to learn how to do it&#8230;<a title=\"buy a franchise how-to\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/how-to-buy-a-franchise\">how<\/a> to buy a franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/definitive-guide-to-franchise-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and how to research a franchise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like some tips on how to buy a franchise, including information on <strong>the most important part of buying a franchise<\/strong>-the research, turn your speakers on and listen to my segment on The Small Business Radio Show with Barry Moltz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barrymoltz.com\/small-business-radio-show\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29813 size-large\" title=\"barry moltz small business radio with the franchise king\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel-620x349.jpg\" alt=\"barry moltz interviews the franchise king\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/barry-and-joel.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right Here:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-29810-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Moltz-Radio-Interview-523-Joel-Libaya-Seg-D.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Moltz-Radio-Interview-523-Joel-Libaya-Seg-D.mp3\">https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Moltz-Radio-Interview-523-Joel-Libaya-Seg-D.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>One more thing: you&#8217;re definitely going to need <a title=\"joel libava books\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/definitive-guide-to-franchise-research\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad always told me this: &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re going to do it, at least do it right.&rdquo; And when you&rsquo;re thinking of doing something big-like buying a franchise, you better do it right. Otherwise&hellip; Exactly. That&rsquo;s why it behooves you to learn how to do it&hellip;how to buy a franchise and how to research a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Franchise King\u00ae On Doing Research The Right Way<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you want to learn how to do franchising research the right way, listen to Barry Moltz&#039;s interview of The Franchise King\u00ae, Joel Libava.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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