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Recommended Reading and Other Franchising Resources

From sales advice to marketing tips to improving the workplace environment, there is an endless batch of resources available to refine your business savvy, help grow and expand your business, and enhance your overall franchisee experience.
Franchise Shows - October & November 2007
The upcoming franchise and business opportunity shows in the United States and Canada are the perfect place to get a closer look at what the industry has to offer. These will be updated every month.
Bond's Franchise Guide 2006
Bond's Franchise Guide is the most exhaustive and comprehensive directory on franchise opportunities available. Newly updated, this invaluable guide offers prospective franchisees a detailed profile of over 1,000 franchises, as well as supplemental profiles on franchise attorneys and consultants.
What No One Ever Tells You About Franchising
This is a must have for the thousands of business owners who want to franchise their concepts, and for the thousands of buyers longing to purchase a franchise.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey H. Gitomer
Sales master Jeffrey Gitomer has created a real-world, practical, and fun book that salespeople will love and profit from—and sales managers will buy by the case. Salespeople want answers. That's why the Little Red Book of Selling is short, sweet, and to the point. It's packed with answers that people are searching for in order to help them make sales for the moment—and the rest of their lives.
Fish! Tales
The phenomenal international bestseller Fish! told the story of a fictional company that transformed itself by applying lessons learned from Seattle's Pike Place Fish market. Now, with Fish! Tales, readers can learn how people in real-life businesses boosted morale and improved results by implementing these same principles.
Hug Your Customers
Now for the first time, Jack Mitchell shares the secrets of his family's innovative merchandising and management approach in his book Hug Your Customers.
How to Become a Rainmaker
Following the success of his national bestseller, How to Become CEO, Jeffrey Fox strikes gold again with this guide to becoming a top-ranking sales person - a rainmaker.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture.
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