2018: A Year of Record Revenue & Growth!

Written by Jim Otto

Continuing to build our brand & infrastructure was a major goal in 2018, as well as engaging franchise candidates who would like to join our Shear Madness family!

We continued to build out our intranet site and make it a valuable hub of information for our franchise partners. Our intranet site houses our proprietary and award winning training manuals and modules along with housing our franchisee friendly library of marketing materials. 

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The Pain That You're Missing in Franchise Selection?!?

Written by Jim Otto

Many of you may have seen a show on TV called Shark Tank. If you haven't, entrepreneurs attempt to convince 6 highly successful business people as to why they should invest their money in the next great business idea. Most businesses start this way and unfortunately it's probably one of the biggest reasons for business failure! 
 
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The Quickest Way to Start YOUR Successful Business!

Written by Jim Otto

Of all the reasons to choose a franchise versus going it alone, ramp-up time is one of the most import. I get called from time to time and the conversation typically goes something like this, "Hey, I found you guys online. I have a GREAT children's salon and I really think you guys might be interested in buying it!" I will tell you from experience the two phrases, "great business" and "I want to sell it" don't really go together. Typically when I am presented with the numbers, there's one thing that stands out: the business took a long time to ramp-up, which caused the business owner to burn through a lot of his working capital. In a well run franchise system your ramp-up time should be greatly accelerated for the following reasons:
 
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How to Make This a Thanksgiving to Remember!

Written by Jim Otto

Shear Madness Specials for November! Here at Shear Madness Haircuts for Kids, we are so thankful to YOU - our amazing customers! You all are fantastic!

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Franchising Your Retirement

Written by Jim Otto

Many of you may never have seen this before, but the Social Security Administration used to send you in the mail what your monthly Social Security benefit would be at retirement (this info can now be accessed online on their website). What always stuck out to me was a statement on the front page, " Social security should not be your only source of retirement income, you will need to have other sources of income at retirement".   
 
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