Gary Prenevost Articles
Critical Trends in Franchising
The pandemic has redefined many aspects of consumer behaviour, both from a business-to-business (B2B) and a business-to-consumer (B2C) perspective. It has also created one unique condition that will have a …
Your E2E Journey
FranNet Canada invites you to complete our self-directed learning course: Your E2E Journey: From Employee to Entrepreneur! How to find, and research your optimum self-employment Options Who doesn’t love the …
FranNet January 2020 Featured Opportunity
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunity: We represent over 80 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet – Montreal Featured Opportunity
FranNet Rare Resale Opportunity: We represent over 80 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet November Featured Opportunity
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunities: We represent over 80 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet September Featured Opportunity
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunities: We represent over 60 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet August Featured Opportunity
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunities: We represent over 60 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet July Featured Opportunity
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunities: We represent over 60 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunity. While this may be of specific interest to …
FranNet Featured Opportunities
FranNet Featured Franchise Opportunities: We represent over 60 franchise concepts and are seeing a high level of interest in the following opportunities. While these may be of specific interest to …
Millennials and Franchising
In the past four years, millennials—those born between 1981 and 1996—have gone from three per cent of my incoming clientele to 20 per cent. Millennials are an emerging force in the …
Women in Franchising
FranNet research reveals that between 2011 and 2017, female franchise ownership in the US and Canada jumped by 83 percent, while male ownership increased by only 13 percent. This startling …
Gary Prenevost on CBC’s On The Money: Millennial Franchisees
What are millennials throwing their collective weight at now? The franchise business! For some, it’s because of a desire not to be chained to a desk all day. And many …
Is This The Year You Become A Franchise Entrepreneur?
Don’t try to fit the business, make the business fit you. Are you one of the millions of Canadians who have been taking stock of your career options this January? …
Trends for 2018: Franchises led by millennials and women poised to grow despite minimum wage hike and SME tax reforms
As the cost of living rises more Canadians are looking for alternative sources of income. Statistics Canada’s consumer price index (CPI) shows price of goods has increased by 16 per …
Season’ Greetings 2017
The Festive Season is now upon us… 2017 was a year of massive change on many fronts… personally, professionally and even politically! The year seems to have passed by with …
Gary Prenevost was interviewed on CFRB 1010 AM radio show
Check out my interview with Zane Caplansky on Let’s Eat with Zane Caplansky on CFRB 1010 AM this past Saturday. Had the pleasure to share the panel with some great …
Franchise Ownership versus the Guaranteed (?) Income Corporate Career Path?
If you’re like 80% of Canadians, you’re enamoured by the idea of having your own business. You are likely struggling with a number of factors… What concepts are hot right …
You Found a Franchise to Investigate – Now What?
You’ve chosen the franchises that you want to investigate – congratulations – the easy part is over… now what? There are three phases to detailed franchise research, “Franchisor Discussions”, “Validation” …
The Harsh Reality of Corporate Employment Patterns in Canada: ‘Work more, with less, for less’ syndrome!
As I reflected over the holidays about all of the clients I worked with in 2014, and all of the stories I heard, I was amazed at the strong correlation …
Evaluating B2B Franchises to Ensure Success
Anyone with skills in marketing, operations or management that wants to venture from the corporate world into business ownership should consider purchasing a B2B franchise. B2B transactions make up a …
Things You Need to Consider before Buying a Fitness Franchise in Canada
With the recent consumer focus on living a health conscious lifestyle, investing in a fitness franchise has become a very lucrative business opportunity. Low overhead costs, resistance to seasonality and …
An Additional Informational Article on Franchise Takes the Café Concept on the Road
Mobile franchises have been on the rise in the recent years thanks to their numerous perceived benefits. Low startup costs, flexible hours and increased exposure are just a few of …
What You Need to Consider When Investing in a Business Consulting Franchise
Business consulting franchises provide consulting services to businesses on various topics including advertising/marketing, sales training and executive coaching, just to name a few. Franchisors in this category often have a …
The Pros and Cons of Franchise Ownership
Franchising is way more than food and retail! There are over 1000 franchise concepts in Canada today covering over 50 different industries, meaning there are a vast number of franchising …
Curious About Getting In Gear With An Automotive Franchise?
There are currently over 30 million motor vehicles in Canada and this number continues to grow. The average length of time the car remains on the road in our country …
Things You Should Consider before Buying a Home Improvement Franchise
The wide variety of options in the “home improvement” sector of franchising makes this category one of the more popular service-based franchising categories. There are numerous great opportunities in this …
7 Top Reasons Hair Care Franchises Thrive Anytime
One of the biggest things to consider when scoping out potential franchises is when the best time to buy is. Many franchises go through ups and downs due to external …
Canada’s Franchise Expert to be Moderator and Panelist at Royal Bank of Canada’s Franchise Event
Toronto, ON, October 14th, Gary Prenevost President of FranNet today announced that in addition to being a panellist for the event, he has received the distinguished honour of being chosen …
Business for Sale: Ontario Provides Great Opportunities for Buyers
The ratio of businesses for sale in Toronto to the number of potential business buyers is approximately one seller for every ten buyers. This makes it a real challenge to …
Canada Franchise Expert Shares Thoughts on Burger King-Tim Horton’s merger with Global News
Franchise Industry Expert and President of CanadaFranchiseExpert.ca, Gary Prenevost, was recently featured on Global News where he shared his franchising knowledge with viewers about the recent historic merger between Tim …
Should I use a franchise consultant?
If you’re like a lot of people who are trying to figure out which type of franchise to buy, the question “should I use a franchise consultant?” has likely crossed …
Tim Hortons Burger King deal would be good for both – Franchise Industry expert Gary Prenevost
If you have been watching the news today, you might have heard that Tim Horton’s Inc. and Burger King have formed the world’s third largest fast food company after the …
The single most-important analogy to remember when you want to buy a franchise!
Almost all of us relate to owning a vehicle of some sort. When you think about it, and automobile is simply a vehicle to get you from point A to …
What is the hottest franchise?
One of the most common questions I get is “what franchises are hot right now? Personally I think this is one of the least relevant questions to ask – first …
How long does it take me to get to a decent income?
One of the biggest challenges people have when considering which business to buy, is figuring out how long it will take them to get to the point where they’re earning …
How Much Money Can You Earn by Starting a Franchise in Canada?
{Video Transcript} One of the things aspiring entrepreneurs often ask me is “how much money can I earn?” Unfortunately, this is a very difficult question to answer because the amount …
10 Important Steps to Opening a Franchise
While these 10 steps are certainly not an exhaustive list, they do give a good idea of what needs to get done to start pursuing franchise ownership. Step 1) Self …
Professionals Recommended in Your Search for Franchise Opportunities
Every professional athlete has at least one coach; often they have several coaches, each with a specialized area of skill and focus, so that the combined coaching enables the elite …
Overview – How to Conduct Effective Franchise Research
You are about to enter into a task of researching business opportunities, where the outcome will likely have a profound impact on your future. Some people enter into this research process and realize …
107 Questions For Franchisors and Franchisee
Purchasing a franchise is a major investment decision and not every franchise will be right for every individual. The following list of questions that FranNet and the CFA recommend you …
Finding YOUR Business : Proper Search Methodology
Following the Proper Search Methodology Looking for the right business takes a significant amount of time and effort; and unfortunately, too many people select a business for the wrong reasons, …
Buying a Franchise – Separating the Strong from the Weak!
A key factor to success is to first isolate strong franchise systems from weak ones, and then only focus your search on partnering with a strong franchisor. So let’s look …
5 Ways to Become an Entrepreneur
Consider these 5 Ways to Become an Entrepreneur when considering self-employment Starting from scratch Multi-Level Marketing Buying a franchise Buying an existing business Conversion Franchising – a Hybrid Strategy It …
Top 10 elements of a Strong Franchise System
Franchising, by its nature is a business strategy that is designed to capture and keep disproportionate market share. Success of franchising is that good franchising harnesses the human independence factor. …
Benefits of Buying a Canadian Franchise
Are you looking for a business opportunity? We’re not just talking about any business opportunity here. We’re talking about a proven business opportunity with the potential and demonstrated ability to …
What To Be Aware Of When Buying a Franchise in Canada
When buying a franchise in Canada, it is important to conduct thorough due diligence, to the point where you can complete a detailed a cost-benefit analysis of the franchise opportunity …
8 Questions to Ask and Answer Before Buying a Franchise
For many people, buying a franchise provides a way to fulfill their lifelong dreams of achieving and exceeding their financial and lifestyle goals. Truthfully, owning a franchise can totally change …
Buying a Franchise in Canada
Owning a profitable business can do wonders for your financial health. However, the stress involved in market research, identifying unique opportunities and finally getting the business up and running is …
The Resurgence of the Entrepreneurial Dream – a bad news/good news story!
Over the past few years the amount of people who have become interested in self-employment has doubled to tripled – 10 years ago only about 10% of job seekers were …
The Tips on How to Avoid Buying into a Franchise that Might Fail
The best Canadian franchises are not always the franchise systems with the biggest brands are most locations, instead, they are franchised businesses that demonstrate a proven track record of success, …
Benefits of Buying a GOOD Canadian Franchise
Are you looking for a Canadian franchise business opportunity? Buying into one of the best franchises in Canada provides you with an excellent opportunity to successfully run a business that’s …
Franchise Buying Advice: 9 Rules for finding your ideal franchise business
Over the last several years there have been significant changes to corporate employment in Canada – jobs have been offshored or shifted back to U.S. head offices; we’ve gone from …
Canadian Franchise Industry Trends for 2014
What to Expect From the Canadian Franchise Industry in 2014 Quick — name the first three businesses that pop in your head when you hear the word “franchise.” Did you …
Canada Franchise Broker Testimonial: Nurse Finds Great Business for Helping Elderly, Injured, Disabled
Terrilynne Young spotted a big hole in the way health care equipment was sold, and Gary Prenevost helped her find the right business to fill the need Terrilynne Young wanted …
Canadian Franchise Advice: Recent MBA Graduate’s Job Search Leads Her Into Franchising
Sharon Herrnstein wanted to take advantage of her marketing background — and she was also intrigued by franchising. Gary Prenevost helped her find a perfect fit. Sharon Herrnstein was at …
3 Mistakes People Make When Buying Franchises
Avoid Common Pitfalls and Turn Your Franchise Purchase Into a Successful Career There are more than 1,200 systems operating in Canada, operating in 80 different industries. As you explore Canadian …
Franchise Consultant Canada Testimonial: Human Resources Pro Gets Help Scanning a World of Opportunities
JF Thibault consulted with FranNet franchise broker Gary Prenevost to see if franchising would be the right fit for him. When JF Thibault’s job as human resources specialist for a …
Canada Franchise Consultant Testimonial: Search for Pet Brand Demonstrates Commitment to Clients
When Leslie Greene realized her business passion and it wasn’t something on Gary Prenevost’s franchise roster, the help kept on coming Leslie Greene may be the happiest person ever to …
Canadian Franchise Expert Testimonial: After Layoff, Ontario Man Finds New Career as Speedpro Owner
Jeff Trudeau found a business he loved with help from Canadian franchise advisor Gary Prenevost Jeff Trudeau can’t say enough good about Gary Prenevost and how he changed his life …
How Big is The Franchise Industry in Canada?
The Canadian franchise industry is large, diverse and growing. More than 1,200 different franchise concepts are already offered in Canada. Here are some Canadian franchising statistics.
Canadian Franchise Buyer Advice
What are the best Canadian Franchises to Purchase? Researching franchises can feel a little bit like Speed Dating — you’re looking for that special company that you’re willing to spend …
What Are The Qualifications to Buy a Franchise?
5 Things You’ll Need to Qualify to Buy a Franchise The best Canadian franchises won’t partner with just anyone, they are looking for people who have the right experience, personality …