by Tracey Leak | May 27, 2019 | Business Simplified, Franchise, Personal Development, Tracey's Thoughts
Have you heard that saying that if you are not growing, then you are dying? Well that is the case in business. You need to be continually learning so that your business is growing, not dying. When I say this, I often have franchisees or business owners say to me,...
by Tracey Leak | May 20, 2019 | Articles, Business Simplified, Franchise, Personal Development, Tracey's Thoughts
You are not alone. In fact, EVERY franchisor has struggling franchisees, it is just a matter of how many and what they classify as struggling. In fact, about 10% of your franchisees should be in your category of ‘struggling franchisees’ because no matter what, if you...
by Tracey Leak | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Business Simplified, Franchise, Marketing, Personal Development, Sales, Tracey's Thoughts
When I speak at large franchise conferences and there are more than one or two hundred people in the room, it is hard to find activities that will allow the audience to participate, rather than just listen to a presentation, but I have one activity that I love that I...
by Tracey Leak | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Franchise, Personal Development, Time Management, Tracey's Thoughts
To often I see franchisees start their brand new franchise business with huge excitement and anticipation to only find them about 3 or 4 months later totally deflated. Why is this? Well, generally it is because they have unrealistic expectations of what it takes to...
by Tracey Leak | Feb 4, 2019 | 101 Tips, Articles, Franchise, Personal Development, Tracey's Thoughts
At this time of year, franchise business owners are setting goals, making New Year’s resolution and the challenge is, that come February, most of these goals and resolutions have been put to the side. Why is that? I don’t think it is because franchise business owners...
by Tracey Leak | Jan 14, 2019 | Articles, Personal Development, Tracey's Thoughts
Happy New Year! At this time of year, as I live on the Gold Coast, I’m often down at the beach. Now as all Australians would know, the message at the beach is always to ‘Swim between the Flags’. For those non-Australians, on the beach the Surf Lifesavers put out two...
