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??????????????????? HUH?<\/span>
\nSo a publication like the WSJ comes up with a Top 25 Franchise List. Great. It is based on???
\nWell, those of us the franchise industry that care, hope that the methodology used is not advertising revenue based. Jeff Johnson of FranData discusses the methodology in a post over at BlueMauMau…. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

??????????????????? HUH? So a publication like the WSJ comes up with a Top 25 Franchise List. Great. It is based on??? Well, those of us the franchise industry that care, hope that the methodology used is not advertising revenue based. Jeff Johnson of FranData discusses the methodology in a post over at BlueMauMau….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-blogs","category-franchise-terms","category-new-franchises"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Wall Street Journal Top 25 Franchise Methodology — The Franchise King\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Wall Street Journal Top 25 Franchise Methodology\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/the-wall-street\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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