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Advice on improving and promoting the retail customer experience gets thrown around a lot these days, mainly because your customers can shop from anywhere. At a time, where sites like Amazon, eBay and ASOS are enabling...
Mary Aldred | CEO | Franchise Council of Australia
Representing our members, raising concerns, reflecting real-life business challenges and responding to member questions about the national Franchising Taskforce has been the priority for the Franchise Council of...
Jason Gehrke | Franchise Advisory Centre
The next stage toward increased regulation of the Australian franchise sector is currently underway, with the Franchising Taskforce assessing stakeholder feedback to its Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) that outlines...
Jason Gehrke | Franchise Advisory Centre
Migrant franchisee discriminates against migrant workers
The migrant Indian operators of a Crust Gourmet Pizza franchise in Tasmania have been penalised $104,000 for discriminating against employees based on their...
Colin D Ellis | Author | Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work
Nothing toxic is good for you, and yet, it's something that seems to be tolerated in organisational cultures all around the world. Toxic cultures create a sense of hopelessness, and people carry on regardless of the...
Your Email Pitch to the Local Reporter
In the last issue, the focus was on how to write a press release, but it only touched briefly on how to write an email pitch. I explained that often an email pitch is all that you...
Gihan Perera | business futurist, speaker & author
In the early days of e-commerce and online shopping, businesses were asking the question, "How can we make our website customer experience as good as the 'real world' experience?" Now it's precisely the other way around...
Dominique Lamb | CEO | National Retail Association
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century we move further towards what has been dubbed a ‘cashless society’. For consumers, card transactions provide a simple payment option that doesn’t require them to lug...
Peter Buckingham | Managing Director | Spectrum Analysis Australia
One of the most critical decisions in franchising you will ever make!
Whether you are a franchisor, or a franchisee, finding a great site is one of the most important decisions you will be making, and sets up the way...