Daily Archives: Saturday March 21st, 2015

In her post, “Females and Franchising: No Longer A Man’s World,” on the entrepreneur-oriented website SmallBusinessBonfire.com (SBB), Amanda Richter outlines the challenges and opportunities women have in considering a franchise career. We have blogged in the past about the five factors that make a difference to influence franchise success. In this post […]

Franchise Owners Associations continue to make headway in seeking legislative protections as New Hampshire joins California, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island (already successfully passed) in introducing bills to protect franchised businesses. A blog post at BlueMauMau.org, “New Hampshire to Introduce Franchise Protection Bill,” reports that New Hampshire representative Pat […]

In a recently issued press release, Target has confirmed reports of a major data breach between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013 that may have affected as many as 40 million cards. The dates included Black Friday, the notoriously busy shopping day following Thanksgiving. Target says the unauthorized access to payment […]

For today’s retailers, taking care of business means enterprise resource planning (ERP); efficient, tightly integrated systems, including accounting, point of sale (POS), inventory control and forecasting. “The Top Five Signs Your Business is Ready for an ERP System,” a recent article on ERP provider NetSuite’s website NetSuite.com, provides a quick […]