{"id":632,"date":"2011-05-29T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/are-you-building-your-franchise-to-sell-someday\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T05:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T05:54:38","slug":"are-you-building-your-franchise-to-sell-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/are-you-building-your-franchise-to-sell-someday","title":{"rendered":"Are You Building Your Franchise to Sell Someday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re a current franchise owner, why are you working so hard?<\/strong> What&#8217;s your reason? Is it a short-term reason, or a long-term one? Do you have any idea what I&#8217;m really asking?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try asking you this question another way;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m really asking is this; what&#8217;s your long-term objective? If you&#8217;re willing to work <strong>12-hour days<\/strong>, there <em>must<\/em> be a reason for it? Right?<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope that it&#8217;s not the, &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m a small business owner, and small business owners work really long hours, you know<\/em>&#8221; reason.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens to be your reason, it&#8217;s not a real good one.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason that I know this myself. (<em>Well, I know this <strong>now<\/strong><\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that I read my friend John Warrillow&#8217;s new book, &#8220;<strong>Built To Sell<\/strong>.&#8221; It really got me thinking. You&#8217;ll be forced to think after reading it, too. Especially if you&#8217;re the owner of a small business-franchise or not.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s book struck a strong nerve with me, but it&#8217;s probably because I&#8217;m in a unique situation. I&#8217;m a one-man show&#8230;I&#8217;m a solopreneur. I&#8217;m a Joel of all trades. (<em>Sometimes I even like it!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Preface<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first sentence of the preface pissed me off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This book is about how to create a business that can thrive without you<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have no plan. When I get my franchise advisory business to where I want it to be, who the hell is going to buy it, when I want to move to the beaches of North Carolina, or Fiji, or any other area that&#8217;s within walking distance of blue water?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c00000;\"><strong>What do I have to sell, when I&#8217;m the business?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, my question to you is this; if <strong>you&#8217;re<\/strong> a one-person business, what do you have to sell?<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s book features Alex Stapelton, the imaginary owner of an advertising agency. In Alex&#8217;s case, he has a few employees, but he&#8217;s <strong>The Guy<\/strong>; he&#8217;s the one that makes the deals and keeps things going. The question John asks, (<em>through Alex&#8217;s story<\/em>) is this;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If <em>you&#8217;re<\/em> the business, how the heck are you going to be able to sell it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>***********************************************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re the owner of a franchise business, and you&#8217;re working really, really hard, have you thought about your exit strategy? If you&#8217;re the primary driver of the business, how will you be able to replace <em>you<\/em>, so that you have something <em>other than you<\/em> to sell?<\/p>\n<p>John has done an amazing job with this book. By using an imaginary small business owner, he&#8217;s effectively taken <em>himself<\/em> out of the book, and instead, has brought in an imaginary character that makes the book hard to put down. (<em>I read it in two nights.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a small business owner, or are thinking about becoming one, this is a must-read book. An exit strategy <strong>needs<\/strong> to be part of your plan. &#8220;<strong>Built To Sell<\/strong>&#8221; will help you come up with it.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <strong><a title=\"www.builttosell.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.builttosell.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.builttosell.com<\/a><\/strong>, and read a sample chapter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisedirect.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3935\" title=\"go to franchise direct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/banner_franchiseking_250x16-2.jpg\" alt=\"top franchise directories\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &nbsp; If you&rsquo;re a current franchise owner, why are you working so hard? 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