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How Much Can You Make in Franchising?
Franchisors often don't give straight answers to franchisees asking the question “How Much Can You Make in Franchising?” due to the numerous legalities involved.

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Should Leaders Ask Questions or Have Answers?
Most people feel that being a leader means having all the answers. Truth is, most leaders have few answers. What they have is wisdom, giving them the ability to handle anything that crosses their path whether they have answers or not. The know how to find the answers they need. This article talks about 'a different approach to leadership.'
And Just What Does That Mean?
Any & all definitions can be found at the USPTO but I thought it'd be nice to take it a step further and put these explanations in easy to understand language. The material in quotes is straight from the USPTO's mouth while the text underneath is straight from mine.
The "100% Commissions Motivate" Myth
There's a good reason why over 97 percent of progressive companies and service industry firms that I've consulted, use a form of a "hungry base plus commission" compensation plan for their sales professionals, rather than employing a straight commission pay structure. The reason is simple, straight commission pay plans demotivate many more sales professionals than they motivate. Straight commissions reward a specific type of sales professional--the top three to five percent of the sales professionals in the top 20 percent bracket.

How Much Can You Make in Franchising?
Franchisors often don't give straight answers to franchisees asking the question “How Much Can You Make in Franchising?” due to the numerous legalities involved.
Breakfast on the run.
Picture this, your alarm screams at you at 5 or 6am. You think to yourself you’ve got a full on day ahead and need to get to work NOW. You skip breakfast and just grab a coffee as you run out of the door or at one of those drive throughs on the way to work. You get to work and are straight into it. Ten o’clock arrives and you are fading fast, your energy is below low, you can’t think straight and you are ready to eat the first thing that walks past you.
Non-linear Career Progression
When told that the ‘shortest distance between two points is a straight line’, this familiar maxim has an, inherent, link to the topic of avoidance. A straight line helps us to avoid wasting time, digressive conversations, subtle references to a certain attraction and political malfeasance. The straight-line reference is a way of avoiding behavioral meandering so as to stay focused on what’s in front of you. In the business sector, the phrase ‘cradle to grave’ contract was used to describe the linear progression of a career path. Career advancement reflected a climb up a ladder of a silo in which professional perspectives were shaped by the boundaries of that narrow focus.
Strategic Planning Begins with a Clear Picture of What You Do
Many of our consulting engagements begin with a simple question intended to help us understand the basics of the organization we’re dealing with. “What do you do?” You might be surprised at the answers we get: answers that lack consistency, focus, and clarity, with key leaders offering slightly different responses to this seemingly simple and straight forward question. While it may sound somewhat juvenile to suggest that organizations expend effort during the strategic planning process to define what they do, there are some very compelling reasons to do so. And, in the end, you may find that this simplistic exercise is the root of many organizational troubles.
There is More to the Job Interview Than Answering Questions - It’s in the Ears
Most people who have an interview scheduled work like crazy on the answers to the questions that may or may not be asked. They focus entirely on the questions and answers and are very nervous about having all the right answers.

How Well Do You Understand Your Organization’s Core Competencies?
What if you were to ask your key management team a simple question: “What do we do?” You might be surprised at the answers you would get: answers that lack consistency, focus, and clarity, with your key leaders offering slightly different responses to this seemingly simple and straight forward question. While it may sound somewhat juvenile to suggest that organizations expend effort to solicit feedback on what they do, there are some very compelling reasons to do so. And, in the end, you may find that this simplistic exercise is the root of many organizational troubles.
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Information on ABL asset based lending in Canada . Common questions and straight forward answers on a credit revolver loan for your company .

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