The 21 Biggest Franchise Sales Blunders You Must Avoid if You Want to Sell More Franchises - Part 1
Franchise Sales Secrets Podcast
Release Date: 02/19/2025
Evaluating How Well Your Franchise Offering Stacks Up Next to Your Competition
Franchise Sales Secrets Podcast
In this episode, I discuss eight important questions to help you evaluate how well your franchise offering stacks up next to your competitors and show you how to make your franchise the clear choice when presenting your brand.
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Eight Signs You Have a Great Connection with a Franchise Candidate on the Way to a Sale
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In this episode, I talk about eight signs that you have a great connection with a franchise candidate on the way to a sale. This is something you should carefully evaluate after each call to make sure that you are on the right track for helping franchise candidates understand everything about the franchise concept and how its support will take away their worries, fears, and concerns.
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The Two Main Obstacles to Selling Franchises Today and How Explaining and Presenting Your Franchise as a Solution to Challenges Yields the Most Positive Results
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In this episode, I talk about how the two main obstacles to selling franchises today and how you can help a franchise candidate critically think about what they want as they consider starting a business. Position your franchise as a way that they can better face a challenge they're facing in their lives - specifically, how a franchise can help them save money with a proven model so they can build a sustainable business while making money with proven, established revenue streams. Candidates have a reason they are talking with you. Have it be your goal to have the franchise candidate...
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Four Things that Increase Resistance at the Beginning of your Interaction with a Franchise Candidate and Five Critical Elements of Your Approach
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In this episode, I outlines the four things that increase resistance at the beginning of any interaction with a franchise candidate, how you can avoid making those mistakes, and the five critical elements that must be a part of your approach in the franchise discovery process.
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The Seven Questions You Must Know the Answer to About Your Franchise Candidate As You Go Through Your Initial Approach
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In this episode, I break down the seven questions that you must know the answer to about your franchise candidate before you start presenting the details of your franchise. We talk about why the approach is so critical in the franchise discovery process and how the analogy of how a ship approaches the shore should inform the way you approach and talk with any franchise candidate. Knowing how to enhance these critical elements will help you build better trust and get to the essence of what is important to the candidate in the franchise they choose to investigate and ultimately start.
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How to Approach, Be More Persuasive, and Sell to the Four Types of Franchise Candidates
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In this episode, I break down the four main types of franchise candidates who will explore your brand, how to identify whether they are more open or closed in how they approach what they do (in other words, are they relationship-oriented or task-oriented in how they go through your discovery process), and why learning how to read and understand behaviors in candidates will help you cut through to what matters most to them so that you can be more successful in helping others find the right business to start.
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Eight Ways to Make the Price of Your Franchise Fee Irrelevant to Your Franchise Candidates as You Build More Value
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In this episode, I share eight ways that you can make the price of your franchise fee irrelevant to your franchise candidates as you build more value.
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Building Relationships Before the Sale and Nine Reminders About Presenting Your Franchise Brand to Create Buying Desire and Excitement
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In this episode, I talk about five key things to remember about building relationships before the sale and nine tips to help you better present your franchise brand while creating buying desire and excitement.
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How to Overcome the 4 R's of Resistance in Selling Franchises
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In this episode, we talk about how you can overcome the 4 R's of resistance in selling franchises. There are four obstacles that people have when you introduce a new idea to them. In this episode, I talk about how you can overcome them to set yourself up for success as you go through the discovery process with new franchise candidates.
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The Key to Successfully Promoting Your Franchise So You Can Flood Your Discovery Pipeline with Candidates Who Are Ready to Buy Your Franchise Now
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In this episode, I talk about the key to successfully promoting your franchise so you can flood your discovery pipeline with candidates who are ready to buy your franchise now and six ways in which you can put your marketing and sales focus where it belongs.
info_outlineIn this episode, I discuss ten of the twenty-one most common and destructive sales blunders and how to avoid them. I'll be covering the remaining eleven blunders in the next episode on the podcast. This discussion covers what not to do as well as what you should be doing as you work with franchise candidates explaining your franchise brand. Avoiding these sales blunders will allow you to make more franchise sales, more consistently.