Marketing
The Quiet Mastery of Franchise Marketing Done Right
Learn how a sandwich franchise chain quietly dominates through consistent marketing that empowers operators with unified digital tools and local flexibility.
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Marketing
Community at Scale: How Smart Franchise Brands Win Locally Without Losing Globally
Discover how smart franchise brands like Planet Fitness achieve intimacy at scale by balancing local authenticity with global consistency in their marketing strategies.
Marketing
Kumon: The Quiet Franchise Giant That Built a Marketing Empire on Trust, Not Flash
Learn how Kumon built a global tutoring empire through simple marketing focused on trust and consistency rather than flashy campaigns and trends.
Consumer Brands & Retail
Franchise PR Is Local Now: Why Centralized Control Stopped Working
Centralized franchise PR stopped working when social media learned every franchisee's first name. Why local empowerment beats top-down control, and the trust posture brands have to rebuild for.
Consumer Brands & Retail
Hand & Stone Made Massage Routine. That Was the Whole Play.
Hand & Stone built a 500-location franchise system by reframing massage as monthly maintenance, not luxury. Membership model. Local trust. Relief, not pampering.
Marketing
Orangetheory: How a Heart-Rate Screen Built a Franchise
Orangetheory Fitness became a successful franchise by turning heart rate data into emotional marketing and transforming franchisees into community builders.
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Mathnasium: The Franchise That Marketed Math as Confidence, Not Punishment
Discover how Mathnasium revolutionized math tutoring by marketing confidence over fear, creating supportive environments that help children build number sense and transform their relationship with learning.
Marketing
Scream and McDonald's: What Multigenerational Franchise Marketing Actually Requires
The Scream film franchise and McDonald's are the two most-cited examples of brand longevity that survives generational handoff. The parallels are not aesthetic. They are structural — and the structural pattern is what 2026 brand-building has to be designed around.
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6 Franchise Marketing Failures and What They Teach Us
Massage Envy, Quiznos, LA Fitness, Cold Stone, Sears, and the Transformers franchise all failed franchise marketing differently — some through digital neglect, one through sheer promotional volume. The common threads, and what the next generation of franchises does instead.
Marketing
Franchise Marketing in Europe: The 2026 Operator's Reality
Learn key strategies for successful franchise marketing in Europe, from cultural adaptation and digital presence to local partnerships and regulatory compliance.