I think I'm a face of a franchise. I can make an impact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want to be the future of a franchise.
I love the idea of coming into a struggling franchise and seeing if I can help them win. First off, I hate to lose. At anything. Secondly, who doesn't want to be the guy to help turn something around?
At the end of the day, you just want to go to a team that believes in you... and hopefully wants to build a franchise around you.
I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.
My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.
The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.
From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share.
There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.