Through Nancy e Williams September 23, 2025 Black Enterprise connected with McGowen to find out more about his journey to franchise ownership and what he describes as ‘out-of-the-box’ business strategies that help stimulate his success. Lonnie McGowen is an accomplished entrepreneur and manager with a rich background in business and leadership. His career started at […]
Rochelle Hendricks is moving quickly. In 2022, a decade after opening her own insurance broker, she decided to try her hand at the facade companies-the purchase of an ideal pit franchise in Ontario, Canada, quickly follow in less than two months. In the next two years she opened three more locations and has now surpassed […]
People often ask me the same question: “How do I know if franchising is the right decision for me?” As a leader of the International Franchise Association (IFA) I know that some things are true: franchising is an incredibly powerful business model. It has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and millions […]
Susan Valverde is the brand president of Sylvan Learning, a tutoring and test preparation center franchise. She describes her career as “a series of happy but very unexpected turns.” Valverde was born in Noord -Mexico, emigrated as a child to the US in the early 1980s and learned entrepreneurship from her parents, who built a […]
Publication: Our goal is to contain products and services that we think you will find interesting and useful. If you buy them, the entrepreneur can get a small part of the income from the sale of our commerce partners. A recent Nasdaq report says: “The robotics -industry is ready for unprecedented growth in 2025.” As […]
Through Nancy e Williams June 20, 2025 Big Dave’s gets the headlines again – this time through an extensive partnership with his largest and first franchisee, Derek Lewis. In March, Black undertaking Spotlight -businessman Derrick Hayes In the article “Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks, the first franchise opens in South Carolina”, and emphasizes the growth of the […]