Young and growing franchise organizations have many responsibilities to handle: • Assembling the right team/selecting the right partners • Fully documenting the operating system • Forming supplier relationships • Registering with appropriate state and local agencies • Announcing and marketing the opportunity to own a franchise • Establishing a new and/or larger online presence This is a long list of essential things to do, but there is one more activity franchisors must be thinking about too: franchise development. Franchise development means starting to bring new franchise owners on board. There are many moving parts in this process: creating a strong [...]