How’s your work/life balance? Do you start the work week refreshed and ready to take on the world or are you frantically revising to-do lists of what didn’t get done last week? Jobs can be severe taskmasters, especially ones that gobble up not only your waking hours but also your sleep and your weekends. Life [...]
If you’ve decided to make the move to franchise business ownership, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed at the 3,000+ different franchise opportunities out there. For a starting point, Joel Libava, The Franchise King®, shares The 5 Elements of a Successful Franchise that you should be looking for: Powerful business systems Serious brand power [...]
Entrepreneur Magazine just released their 41st annual Franchise 500 Ranking for 2020 and all four Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) brands are included in this prestigious list! Budget Blinds® is #17 AdvantaClean® is #204 Concrete Craft® is #257 Tailored Living® is #371 Make 2020 the year you change your life as a franchise business owner [...]
Every January, Franchise Business Review® (FBR) publishes their annual Franchisee Satisfaction Awards to help prospective franchise buyers in their search for the right franchise. Based solely on surveyed franchisees who currently run a business, the results cull the top 200 franchises to buy in the new year. Budget Blinds is #27 for 2020 and has [...]
2019 is history and the New Year 2020 stretches out before us, full of potential! If you’ve got big plans for this new year, does that include a new you? Did your New Year’s resolutions include career advancement or a new job? Think about this: Does going back to the same job for another 12 [...]
Another year in partnership with Homes for Our Troops (HFOT) has seen 18 more families of severely injured Veterans move into mortgage-free, specially adapted homes. Each of those homes received custom window blinds throughout the house and garage, installed by Budget Blinds® franchise owners. For 15 years, nonprofit HFOT has been building and donating homes [...]
If you’re facing an empty nest with the kids off to college or living on their own, what will you do all day in the suddenly very quiet house? Now that you can finally hear yourself think, what do you think? Your job is no longer exciting or challenging You’re not looking forward to retirement [...]
You’ve made the decision to buy a franchise business. You’ve done your homework, made comparisons, and finally submitted a qualification form for a call back from the franchise business opportunity you’re most interested in. This phone call is a critical step in the process that will ultimately determine if you buy this franchise. Home Franchise [...]
The holiday season has arrived with the hustle and bustle of shopping, stringing lights and trimming trees, visitors dropping by, big family dinners, wintertime activities, and more. How many activities are you able to participate in and how many are you missing because of work? Is getting vacation time around the holidays a near impossibility? [...]
Losing a job is in the top 10 stressors that people can experience (Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale). If you are currently out of a job or fearing for your job, you can probably attest to the enormous stress it generates. Maybe you’re just starting out with a young family to provide for and the [...]
