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Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.
Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.
Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.
Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.
Watch the whole thing.
I agree with Pat here and it’s one of the biggest surprises (to me at least) I’ve seen in franchising.
There are tons of well documented failures in the yogurt space.
But, by this point, the industry has “shed its skin” leaving less competition in a space with enduring demand.
Frozen yogurt is definitely back
Franchises are growing again, and I've seen a few independent shops raising $$ off the back of crazy 4-wall numbers
Tough category though, buyers beware
Saw this tweet from @sodacitysimpson a couple weeks ago. Thought “yeah I’ll get pet insurance one day.”
Yesterday, my Marley was diagnosed with cancer.
I’m grateful to be able to cover it, but kicking myself for not paying the $50/month instead.
Get the pet insurance folks…
Smallest amount of money that impacted my life?
Pet insurance, cost us $50 a month
My dog got cancer and we were able to get him treatment because of it
All in cost us about 1k, gave him 2 more years
Without it would of been 25k and in no world could we have afforded that
We've never seen a broker note like this.
As @BillDA puts it:
"Either this broker really means it, or is mortgaging their credibility and flushing it all down the toilet."
@girdley, @BillDA, and @ConnorGroce dig in.
A dog grooming business with 35% margins...
We think this is about $1M overpriced.
Can you spot the problem?
@thegeneralmills, @EndresenHeather, and @ConnorGroce dug in on today's episode.
My next free lecture: The 7 trade-offs in choosing a business, with @ConnorGroce.
Today at 12 CT / 1 ET.
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Why in God's name does it take weeks to open a business bank account in 2026?
Please comment below with recommendations for the most user-friendly business banks.
For a long time, there have been franchisors across a lot of industries (but mainly home services) who delivered no meaningful value for franchisees. They were previously able to get away with it because 1) the home services industry at-large was on fire and 2) digital marketing was much cheaper than it is today.
So you had a bunch of franchisees paying 8% of their revenue for artwork (the logo) and a warm intro to a marketing agency. Then the tide goes out (pullback in home services spending, increase in digital marketing cost, etc) and we see who was skinny dipping.
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