{"id":7190,"date":"2012-09-05T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2019-11-24T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:57:29","slug":"latest-software-potential-franchise-business-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/latest-software-potential-franchise-business-owners","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Use The Latest Software To Assist Potential Franchise Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/software.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/software-620x578.jpg\" alt=\"franchise software\" width=\"620\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/software-620x578.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/software.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to write this<strong> franchise blog<\/strong> post because of <strong>Entrepreneur\u00ae magazine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s all their fault<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From the August edition of Entrepreneur\u00ae&nbsp;magazine;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Joel Libava has had the &#8220;franchise quiz&#8221; on his website for several years. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s not particularly scientific or high-tech&#8211;<strong>Libava hand-scores each quiz himself<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span> But after two decades in the franchise world, the Cleveland native believes he has come up with the right questions to ask anyone considering becoming a franchisee. The quiz isn&#8217;t there to tell you whether you should buy a pizza restaurant or an oil-and-lube franchise. It&#8217;s there to determine if you should buy a franchise at all<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the magazine article on <a title=\"entrepreneur magazine joel libava feature article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/224016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the top traits of successful franchise owners<\/a>, and then pop back.<\/p>\n<h2>I Have Feelings<\/h2>\n<p>So, <a title=\"jason daley\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufollow.com\/authors\/jason.daley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jason Daley<\/strong><\/a>, (<em>the reporter who interviewed me for the story<\/em>) doesn&#8217;t think too much of my technical ability&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine with that, <em>even though my feelings were hurt<\/em>. But, just because <strong><em>I refuse<\/em><\/strong> to use some type of fancy-schmancy software to help a lot of real nervous people figure out if franchise ownership is really for them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying; the decision to become the owner of a franchise business-any business, is a big one. In <em>my<\/em> opinion, it&#8217;s way too big to use some type of formula&#8230;an algorithm-to help determine if someone is right for&nbsp;franchising&#8230;I&#8217;m just not comfortable <a title=\"software tools for franchise matching \" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/new-software-based-franchise-matching-tool-is-a-bunch-of-marketing-hooey\">automating something that can affect one&#8217;s life<\/a> in such a huge way. (<em>People can lose a lot of money if they&#8217;re not right for franchising<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<h2>I Do It The Old-Fashioned Way<\/h2>\n<p>Every time a potential franchise owner goes to my <strong>Take The Franchise Quiz&nbsp;<\/strong>website, and takes the quiz&#8230;I score it <em>by hand<\/em>. I don&#8217;t plug the answers into some type of software tool. I go through every question, and base my score on how they&#8217;re answered. (<em>Or, in some cases, how they&#8217;re<strong> not<\/strong> answered<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>I put together my free franchise quiz around 5 years ago to assist people that are trying to figure out if they should even be&nbsp;<em>looking<\/em>&nbsp;at franchises. That&#8217;s because, one needs to have <a title=\"franchise personality\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/franchise-personality\">a certain type of personality<\/a> to be a <em>successful<\/em> franchise business owner. And, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>I&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;don&#8217;t posses it<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. If <em>you<\/em> are thinking of becoming the owner of a franchise, <a title=\"don't be like franchisee joel libava franchise articles allbusiness.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/franchises\/buying-a-franchise\/11480060-1.html#axzz25WkUe6lJ\">don&#8217;t be like me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Is A Carpal Tunnel Repair Franchise Needed?<\/h2>\n<p>The article in&nbsp;Entrepreneur\u00ae magazine that&nbsp;I referred to above, which is now available online, <strong><em>links<\/em><\/strong> to my franchise quiz.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And, it&#8217;s hurting my wrist.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the Entrepreneur.com website gets <strong>a lot of web traffic<\/strong>, and some of it is going to my quiz. Which people<em> are<\/em> filling out.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, just the other day, I had <strong>38<\/strong> quizzes staring at me, ready to be scored.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not&nbsp;complaining.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish that I had some fancy-schmancy software to score them.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kidding<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;m not going to <em><strong>link<\/strong><\/em> to my quiz here.<\/p>\n<p>My wrist hurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to write this franchise blog post because of Entrepreneur&reg; magazine. It&rsquo;s all their fault. From the August edition of Entrepreneur&reg;&nbsp;magazine; &ldquo;Joel Libava has had the &ldquo;franchise quiz&rdquo; on his website for several years. It&rsquo;s not particularly scientific or high-tech&ndash;Libava hand-scores each quiz himself. 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