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Re-Visit Your Franchise Buyer Personas to Boost Development

Creating franchise buyer personas can be an extremely valuable exercise for Franchise Development Teams tasked with aggressive growth goals. Defining these personas allows you to better understand the motivations and needs of your ideal customer, and ultimately create sales and marketing content that resonates with them. 2022 is calling for franchisors to think smarter when it comes to how they engage prospective franchisees. In addition to creating or refining your persona definitions, selecting tech tools that support growth and make processes simpler are essential for business owners this year. Our Executive’s Guide to Franchising Tech in 2022 – CDO Edition is a great place to start if you are looking for inspiration on what you should be focused on in terms of tech options. But for the sake of this blog post, let’s hone in on why franchise buyer personas are so important and review some of the best things you can do to get them right.

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Defining Your Franchise’s Unique Selling Points and Showcasing Them to Potential Franchisees

Owning a franchise is an exciting opportunity to apply your business acumen and take your career in a new direction. While many franchises come with built-in brand recognition and buying power, you will still need to grow your business and attract new potential franchisees. Defining your unique selling points is the best way to accomplish these goals. 

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6 Quick Ways to Grow Your Qualified Leads

Sales and Development Executives in franchising are always looking for ways to increase qualified lead flow to sell more franchise units. Many marketers are finding that purchased leads do not convert at the same rate as leads gained through organic search. Often it is thought that the more leads the better, but we have learned that it’s about the quality of the lead in the first place that can make all the difference. Quality over quantity is the way to go in this instance. The world of franchise development is changing every day. With so much information available about almost every business model, it’s difficult to get prospects interested in your brand over others. We’ve put together 6 ways that you can elevate your marketing efforts in order to return more qualified leads.

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4 Things Keeping Franchisors Up at Night

At a recent franchising conference, we were lucky enough to sit down for interviews with a variety of senior executives from the FranConnect customer base. This included franchise brands of different sizes and from different industries.  We asked them what business challenges are most important for them to solve using technology. It was great to know how they are getting so much value from FranConnect, but it was also enlightening to hear some of the common themes that surfaced. Here are four of them, with actual soundbites from those customer interviews. For the full catalog of interviews, check out our Testimonials Resource Center.

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5 Ways to Elevate Your Franchise Development Website

The franchise development website is an essential sales tool, helping brands accomplish several objectives at once: generate leads, prescreen prospects, share the brand story, and facilitate growth in target markets.

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Keep the Dirt Out of Your Franchise Sales Data

A dirty database is a like a dirty home. When a home is messy and unorganized, it’s hard to find anything. It seems to happen in an instant, too – once one item is put in the wrong place, the mess piles up. Particularly if you have kids or live with roommates, it can be difficult to keep all the dirt from coming in.

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