Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue IV, 2016 | Page 10

2017 - LAS VEGAS Sunday, April 23 – Wednesday, April 26 ✓ CONFERENCES 2017 Multi-Unit Franchising Conference! It’s never too early to start planning to join your peers at the 17th annual Multi-Unit Franchising Conference, next April at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Attendees at the 2016 conference overwhelmingly said it was a useful, worthwhile experience and plan to return next year. Total attendance, which topped 1,300, included more than 550 franchisees who collectively accounted for more than 12,000 operating units, $8.5 billion in annual revenue, and more than 100,000 jobs. This is a unique opportunity to attend the premier multi-unit franchising event, meet and learn from the best in the business, explore new brands, and soak up invaluable expertise at the educational sessions. Need some inspiration or a reminder? Take a peek back at the 2016 conference to see the speakers, review educational sessions, and sign up to keep current on developments for 2017 at www. multiunitfranchisingconference.com ✓FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES Looking for your next franchise opportunity? Have we got the tools for you! Find articles on companies, concepts, industries, trends, and profiles—and search our features. Find franchisors looking for multi-unit franchisees, area reps, and area developers. Search by top opportunities, alphabetically, investment level, industry, state, and more at www.franchising.com ✓RANKINGS Check out our annual rankings of top multi-unit franchisees and their brands and find out “Who’s on first.” For the Multi-Unit 50 rankings visit www.franchising.com/ multiunitfranchisees/mu50.html; and for the Mega 99 rankings visit www.franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees ✓PUBLICATIONS “Don’t just survive, thrive!” Franchise Update Media’s 2017 Annual Franchise Development Report, and the best-selling book, Grow to Greatness by top franchise consultant Steve Olson, offer invaluable tips for franchise sales success and unit growth in today’s economy. To order, visit www.franchising.com/ franchisors/afdr.html and www.franchising.com/ franchisors/growtogreatness.html. ✓ONLINE Multi-Unit Community Grows ✓QUICKLINK Check out our community-based website for multi-unit operators. It’s your exclusive look into the world of multi-unit franchising, your one-stop shop to find: • New brand opportunities • Exclusive interviews • Networking opportunities • Operator profiles • Online edition and archives • Financing resources www.franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees ✓NEW ONLINE VIDEOS EmpireBuilders.tv Expands Great entrepreneurs build great organizations. They possess a knack for making smart business decisions, building great teams, and creating successful companies. But as we’ve learned from years of interviewing successful multi-unit franchisees, they’ve also struggled, doubted, and made more than a few mistakes—yet they’ve soldiered on, persevered, and ultimately come out on top. To provide a deeper sense of their journeys, insights, and personalities, we’re selecting franchisees from our most inspiring print interviews and creating a new series of online videos of these franchisee leaders. We call them Empire Builders.www.franchising. com/empirebuilders 8 For a one-click link to articles in this magazine and to past issues of Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine, visit www. franchising.com/multiunitfranchisees ROLE PLAYER “I like franchising. It’s a beautiful joint venture, where franchisors are responsible for their piece of the pie— the creation of concept, menu, training manuals, building designs—and then hand it to the franchisee and say, ‘Now run with it.’” —Dave Goebel, franchisee of Pie Five Pizza and Goodcents Deli Fresh Subs MULTI-UNIT FRANCHISEE IS S UE IV, 2016 muf4_d_online(8).indd 8 10/6/16 4:48 PM