Designing A Franchise Training Program

Writen by Lance Winslow

If you intend to franchise your company you will need to design a bullet proof training company for your new franchisees. This is above and beyond the training program you will design for them to administer to their new employees. Remember when training new franchisees it is similar to training new managers for any Corporation's outlets. The difference of course being that the Franchisee in a Franchised Company has a lot more at stake and will be twice as motivated as an average manager of a corporate Store.

Below please find a brief outline to help you design your Franchisee Training Program. Now then please realize that our outline will be slightly dissimilar to your training program and you will need to modify your outline to fit your exact business model this outline designed by me is for a Mobile Car Wash Franchise, The Car Wash Guys, and it is for a mobile home based service business. I recommend that you copy this article and modify the outline below to best fit your business. Then secondly I recommend that your write five paragraphs for each item below and then type them up as a rough draft for your own future training manual.

YOUR TRAINING PROGRAM

I. Training At Headquarters

A. Introduction And Tour Of Headquarters

B. Explanation Of Truck And Equipment Capabilities

C. Introduction And Explanation Of Computer System

D. Explanation Of Car Wash Products And Capabilities

E. Confidential Operations Manual - How To Use

F. How To Wash Various Types Of Vehicles

G. Motivational Talk

II. Training In Your Exclusive Territory

A. Fleet Sales Training

B. Client Recruitment, Route Set Up And Scheduling

C. Paging System Overview

D. On The Spot Up-Selling

E. Data Base Entry

F. Co-Op Marketing

G. Competition Awareness

H. Fax, E-Mail And Internet Marketing

I. Dealing With City Hall

J. Employee Recruitment And Procedures

K. Fundraising Event Procedures

L. Computer Consultation And Set Up

M. Motivational Pep Talk

N. Accounting And Administration

Lance Winslow

Specialty Advertising In Cstores

Writen by Lance Winslow

It appears the mini-blimp indoor theme and concept is making significant headway. We have seen them in the halls of Congress sniffing for anthrax. What else can we use them for? C-Stores can use Mini Blimps Advertising and Surveillance to prevent Shoplifting. These can be paid for by beer vendors, soda vendors as advertising signs, which float around the store like a pool sweeper around the family pool. It does not have to be a blimp shape, it could very well be any shape such as a giant banana or a football?

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Costs paid can be fully paid by the vendors and advertisers. Mini camera equipment can be installed to prevent shoplifting. Perhaps even the new technology of video cell phone projectors can be incorporated where a commercial can be played on the glass of the refrigerator glass cabinets in the store for the purchaser, or perhaps a warning that they must have proper idea to buy anything in this section? These blimps can run on the power of small solar cells on the top of the blimp running from the lights like a solar powered calculator? Or, if that technology is unavailable or not sufficient enough a set of batteries, which are trickle charged off the solar cells, to keep the ion lithium batteries charged. Many universities have been doing maneuverability studies on mini blimps ever sense the Homeland Security made these things more viable with the trend towards indoor bio-safety sensors.

Maneuverability studies show these are very viable and with the nano robotics available the mini-blimp might drop suggestive coupons to the purchaser. Mini-blimps and payload dropping or coupon dropping is well within these devices capabilities.

Lance Winslow

The Cheap Fast And Good Rule In Business

Writen by Paul Taylor

Every now and then, everyone needs a refresher course. Business owners are no exception. Just to refresh your memory, in my last article I talked about ways to "Make Your Business Grow." Today, I want to continue that train of thought.

Several years ago I attended a business seminar and although I don't remember much about what was said, one thing that I do remember was the "cheap, fast and good rule in business." I don't know who made up this rule, but it seems to be one of the primary truths in all of business.

The speaker began by saying that you can never have all three items together at the same time. In other words, if you are purchasing any thing, you may want it cheap and fast, but it won't be good. You may want it cheap and good, but it won't be fast. Or, you may want the item fast and good, but it won't be cheap.

Let's take as an example setting up a website. Anyone can create a website without having to know anything about html. Free websites are given away every day and it only takes a few minutes to create one; this is the cheap and fast, but not good rule. Having a website that will attract customers takes a lot of time to create.

And if you want a good website, unless you can create one on your own, it can be expensive to pay for the hosting, creating, and updating, not to mention the search engine optimization (seo), and ppc (pay per click) advertising. This is the good and fast part of the rule. And lastly, if you want a website that is good and cheap, prepare to wait a while for it to be up and running. I can imagine one person, in a home office working on your website at his convenience; he's not in a hurry, it's not his website.

Another example that seems to prove this rule is shipping. Fed Ex is a prime example of this rule. If you need a good service and you need it fast, then this company will get your items to wherever it needs to be – but you are going to pay a lot for the service. UPS and DHL are similar to Fed Ex. The United States Post Office is an example of a good service – no matter how we like to complain sometimes – but it can be slow; so we need to add extra time when we send off that credit card bill, and it is still cheap. I do not know of any service that is fast and cheap, but not good. If there are any shipping services that fit this description, they won't be in business very long.

The last example that I want to use is advertising. If you want customers fast and good (qualified), it definitely won't be cheap. One example of this is the ppc advertising on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You can also have your advert as a "popup" and it is cheap, but the click thru rate is not good. And finally, you can build your good customers over time and reasonably cheap, but it want be fast.

I want to end this article where I began. In order to "make your business grow" one thing that I want you to remember is that "you get what you pay for." If you pay for a good website, you usually get it. I know that there are exceptions, but overall you will have a better response than on a free website. If you want fast shipping, you must pay for the service and if you want more customers, you have to do the work necessary that will attract more customers.

Fast, good, or cheap – which two will it be?

Paul Taylor is a business owner that helps other business owners and entrepreneurs locate wholesale sources for their business. Visit his website at =>http://www.wholesalemap.com