Robert Stidham
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395 appearances
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first heard Jun 2013
last heard Jun 2013
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You know, I would love to tell you I have a crystal ball.
I don't, but it's interesting.
Within our management team, we talk about roughly a half a dozen things.
Paul, we believe that the franchise development marketplace is going to continue to develop a little bit along the lines of what you talked about.
You're going to have that man-in-a-band community, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with
with a franchise opportunity for that person who wants to change their lives, but their goal is to be in a business where they're the owner-operator.
We think the investor side of the business, particularly in investments that are retail or restaurant-oriented, where we have a generally more sophisticated business, more scalable, more variables in a bigger investment, is going to continue to evolve, where there is some crossover, but we think over time we're going to really speak
as franchisors to those two audiences.
In a perfect world, you'd want to have an offering where you could speak to both.
I do think technology is going to continue to have a bigger and bigger impact.
It's interesting, you know, Facebook, pardon me,
has been a great social media tool for most of us for the last few years.
But candidly, we see things like Twitter and Pinterest and some of the newer forms of social media having a bigger and bigger impact because, frankly, one of the trends we see is franchising appealing to a younger and younger buyer.
You know, I'm the father of four boys from 20 to 30.
Two are out of college and working and married, and two are in college.
And what I see amongst them and their friends
because the corporate world has changed.
I started my career out of college as a management trainee in a Fortune 500 company, and of course, that path does not exist anymore.
Younger people more frequently considering entrepreneurship and franchising as a component of that.
How do you reach those folks?
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