Charles Watson
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858 appearances
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first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
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So some of those lessons early on uh were good that you got to have a great brand, you got to have brand awareness, and you got to work really hard.
Hard in order to make a go of it in certainly in franchise development.
And then as my career went on, I got to get into some other things.
But I really think that franchise development was a great place to start my career because, in my opinion, someone who has to sell or consultatively sell a franchise, a whole business, which may contain real estate, it may contain equipment, it may contain all these things.
That prospect or that buyer is
looking to you to be the expert, not just on how you buy a franchise, but on every aspect of that business, right?
And so a a really good franchise development person is probably one of your best people in the organization to give the 30,000 or 20,000 foot view of every aspect of the business.
So I think I had a a good basis in franchising and understanding the whole franchise and all the ins and outs by working in that area.
You know, in three days I will hit my eleventh anniversary at Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
And especially in this environment, this career environment, right?
That becomes something a little different being with one organization for uh eleven years.
And and I'm I'm very grateful for that because I I can't say that looking back when I was twenty-five or thirty that I thought that would necessarily be the case.
But no, I had had enough uh enough snow, quite honestly, in the northeast after after corner.
And in Boston and came back to Atlanta and actually took a job with Intercontinental Hotels.
I didn't want to get pigeonholed as just a salesperson.
And so I took on some strategic services roles in Intercontinental.
I got a taste of big company, right?
We got 15 floors of people and 7,000 hotels.
And what I learned there was ultimately the relationship side of corporate and meetings and meeting after meeting after meeting and having a meeting about having a meeting and how bigger organizations.
Work.
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