People Still need Great Hair Cuts

Despite the economic and financial slow-downs, there are service related franchise businesses that tend to weather the storm when it comes to having a relatively consistant customer following. Hair-Cutting Franchises fall in this category of franchise systems that offer "people" based services.

One such franchsie that continues to do well and opens new franchised locations regularly is Great Clips.

Great Clips has a relatively low total expected investment of around $100K for being a well recognized brand in the franchise industry.

Shelby Yastrow - Former Executive Vice President at Great Clips states, "Haircare is like food -- it's not a fad. Sure, tastes and styles change, but, just as people will not stop eating, they won't stop getting their hair cared for. That's one reason this business has more "staying power" than many trendy businesses. "

How to use FranchiseBaby.com to Advertise a Franchise For Sale

At FranchiseBaby.com we focus on three methods of helping Franchisors and Franchisees advertise their franchises for sale.


First, we are a franchise information resource directory. Franchisors sign up for a subscription to our service for less than $10 a month. With the subscription the franchisor gets all investor and interested entrepreneur traffic that we drive to their respective web page listing on FranchiseBaby.com Each franchisor chooses how best to gather the interested investors information - whether its simply linking to their own website, or web form, displaying a phone number or email contact etc.


The next tool FranchiseBaby.com provides in terms of advertising, is the promotion and marketing of franchise businesses with franchise promotional products. FranchiseBaby.com has specialized in marketing and promotional products sales for a number of years. If you are a franchisor, you can contact a member of our team today, and find out how you can even profit from purchasing your own promotional materials (and then selling them to your franchisees). FranchiseBaby.com can brand your name or company logo on virtually any item you can imagine. Better yet, when you are a franchisor that signs up for a subscription to the franchise baby advertising directory, you get 10% off your first franchise promotional product order! This can be very substantial if you have a large order to fill in particular!


FranchiseBaby.com is also a valuable resource of advertising power when you need to sell an existing franchise for sale. Existing franchise for sale opportunities are linked directly on the main franchisors web page listing. An existing franchise for sale advertisement comprises of your own web page listing in which you can list any information you like. Your listing can run as long as you need it to run as well for a one time fee of only $24.95


We hope this helps explain some of the FranchiseBaby.com services we have to offer. Sometimes we get so caught up in blogging about exciting franchise news that we forget to mention just what it is we can do for franchisors and franchisees!


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Rogue and Ugly Duckling Franchisees

Sometimes its difficult for the entrepreneur type to adhere to someone else's business "structure."

However, so many franchisors simply suggest "just sticking to the plan."

On more than one occasion I have had a franchisor tell me a story about a "rogue" or "ugly duckling" in their system - a franchisee who comes in talking more than listening. What makes the difference between the two (rogue or ugly duckling) is that the rogue franchisee never comes around to accepting the rules or sticking to the franchise plan into which they have invested. The ugly duckling on the other hand, although having some trouble sticking to the franchise system at first, learns to adapt eventually, and interestingly enough, often becomes one of the best franchisees in the sytem . . .

Franchises - The best businesses of the best

Doom and gloom in the financial world . . . but how is franchising hurt?

Naturally, most businesses are being hurt in some way by the recent economic trends. But if you understand just what a franchise business represents, its hard to conceive of the idea that franchising a business will no longer be the popular thing to do. . .

A franchise concept simply represents a "perfected" business plan. If the particular plan is executed correctly (under any economic conditions), it is more likely to succeed than a business just trying to get off the ground. Of course, that is not to say that in adverse economies even franchised businesses can't fail - as a franchisee owner, you just have a much better shot at succeeding with a tested franchise system.