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I doubt very much if you think you’ll be an unhappy franchise owner<\/strong>. It’s probably not in your wheelhouse. Whatever that<\/em> means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But is it possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there a chance you’ll be an unhappy <\/a> franchise owner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Perfect World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Franchising is<\/a> a good business model. Great<\/em> even. Mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in a perfect world, you’ll find the franchise of your dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this dream of yours, you’ll quickly break-even, make lots of money<\/a>, and be an incredibly happy franchisee<\/a>. Except…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t live in a perfect world. Sh*t happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you like to know what kind of stuff can happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things That Can Make You An Unhappy Franchise Owner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You probably know what they are, but I’m going to tell you anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing that can make you unhappy is that you choose the wrong franchise opportunity for you. This happens a lot. Seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, there’s the person who loves restaurants and can easily<\/em> see himself owning one (let’s call him Robert<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert, 55, always wanted to own a food-service establishment, and thinks now is the time. Especially since the company he worked for recently laid him off. So he goes after his dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this particular case, he uses a portion<\/a> of his retirement investments to buy a well-known pizza<\/a> franchise. It’s all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. It’s not<\/em>. Would you like to guess why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll give you one guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now remember your guess, because I’m going to give you the reason why in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owning A Franchise Made Her Quite Unhappy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an example of how an educated, well-meaning aspiring franchise owner<\/a> quickly became pretty damn un<\/em>happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 (Renee…immediately after she signed her franchise agreement<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the story goes, her franchise broker<\/a> told her (let’s call this franchisee, Renee<\/em>) she’d be a great fit for a franchise business in the senior care space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thing is, he kinda, sorta, failed to tell Renee that senior care franchise businesses don’t have walk-in customers. So?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when customers aren’t physically visiting your place of business for services (like senior care<\/em>), it means that said customers (clients, actually<\/em>) will need to be located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By aggressively engaging in business development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is a nice way of saying franchisees need to make lots of cold calls. Sales<\/em> calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s right. If you buy a franchise in the senior care space, you’ll need to pound the pavement so you can start building relationships. The kind of relationships that need to become referral<\/strong> relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, would you care to guess why Renee, who (until she was let go<\/em>) was a successful marketing executive, is now the unhappy owner of a senior care franchise<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why the smile in her picture above isn’t there anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reason Why They’re Unhappy Franchise Owners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let’s see if you guessed right. But first, let’s go back to Robert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a nutshell, Robert is an unhappy restaurant franchisee because he had no idea how hard…and how many hours he’d need to work as an owner<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as an added bonus, he didn’t have a clue about the employee turnover nightmare that’s a huge part of the restaurant business<\/a>, including his<\/em> business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait. Is Robert even making any money? Enough money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, Robert can remain unhappy, or he can possibly get some help managing the operation. That, or he can try to sell his restaurant<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What About Renee? Why Is She Unhappy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Renee is unhappy because she had no desire to sell. She didn’t want that to be her role in her business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No desire enter and exit her SUV 6-7 times a day calling on prospective referrers. Nonetheless, that’s what she needs to do if she wants any chance at success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, she could hire a tiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"sales<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Someone who loves cold calling and can make things happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing that would require an investment on her part-on top of her initial investment<\/a> in the franchise and her always in-play ongoing expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if she doesn’t want to lose the money she invested to buy<\/a> her senior care franchise, she just needs to do it. Unless she wants to try to sell her franchise. Then the question becomes does she have something to sell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee should have never purchased a senior care franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, she should have bought a franchise that doesn’t require outside selling<\/a> to make money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s Fairly Common<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What happened to Renee happens to a lot of today’s franchise buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They get excited about a franchise opportunity but fail to find out what the franchisee’s role is in the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Renee’s case, it’s partly the fault of the franchise broker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broker, if she did her job right, should have done a deeper dig into Renee’s core skills. Specifically, her sales skills. She didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the broker got paid $20,000 anyway. And Renee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s got an expensive problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It Doesn’t Need To Be This Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t want to become an unhappy franchise owner, you need to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Only look into franchise opportunities in which you can easily utilize your top skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Do your research. That includes reaching out to existing franchise owners and asking them what their working days consist of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. If you decide to work with a franchise broker, do a background check. And talk to people who worked with the broker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you buy a franchise, be realistic about earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases, your first year or so in business is what I call a \u201cnon-profit year<\/em>.\u201d As in, you shouldn\u2019t expect to make money. That means you\u2019ll need to be patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you play your cards right, which includes making a good choice in a franchise to own and doing great<\/a> research, you have a good shot at being a happy, money-making, fulfilled franchise owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not an unhappy one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m rooting for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I doubt very much if you think you’ll be an unhappy franchise owner. It’s probably not in your wheelhouse. Whatever that means. But is it possible? Is there a chance you’ll be an unhappy franchise owner? Let’s find out. A Perfect World Franchising is a good business model. Great even. Mostly. And in a perfect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2122,32],"tags":[247,2151],"class_list":["post-42249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choose-a-franchise","category-franchise-purchasing","tag-franchise-advice","tag-unhappy-franchise-owners"],"yoast_head":"\nUnhappy Franchise Owner Scenarios And You<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Will you be an unhappy franchise owner? Is there a way to know? 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