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How to Motivate and Keep Your Best Employees

How to Motivate and Keep Your Best Employees

If you’re a franchisee or entrepreneur, you know that retention is more cost effective than recruitment. Hiring and training new team members takes time and cuts into your bottom line, not to mention the separation costs involved. In a competitive marketplace, your business needs to attract the best talent--and keep it. What are some low-…

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Promoting Your Business Through Social Media

Promoting Your Business Through Social Media

Social media has become ubiquitous for sharing not only personal information, but also for promoting and advertising businesses. If a business does not have a strong social media presence, it puts itself at a disadvantage. According to eMarketer.com, Americans spend more than three and a half hours on their mobile devices each day, and much…

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What Does it Cost to Start an Auto Glass Business?

What Does it Cost to Start an Auto Glass Business?

An auto glass business startup is an appealing idea to many people with entrepreneurial ambitions. You get to be your own boss and, because of the necessity of automobiles, starting up a windshield replacement business tends to be a much more secure and safe venture than some more speculative businesses. But as with any business,…

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What Are the Keys to Successfully Launching an Auto Glass Replacement Business?

What Are the Keys to Successfully Launching an Auto Glass Replacement Business?

The auto glass repair and replacement business is a strong industry with many advantages. Auto glass businesses have a wide base of potential customers, a favorable economic forecast, and lots of flexibility in market entry. This is not to say that starting an auto glass business is an automatic guarantee of success. As with any…

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4 Things You Need to Know Before Starting an Auto Glass Business

4 Things You Need to Know Before Starting an Auto Glass Business

Starting an auto glass business is a great way to start your path toward a rewarding career, both financially and in providing quality service to your community. But starting an auto glass business takes hard work and strategy. There are some things you need to know about the auto glass business before diving right in.…

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What You Should Be Looking For in Glass Franchise Opportunities

What You Should Be Looking For in Glass Franchise Opportunities

Glass franchises present excellent opportunities to establish a rewarding career in which you get to be your own boss. This allows you to reap more of the rewards of your business’s success than you could as an employee. But it also makes you responsible for more, so the stakes are higher. You want to make…

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NOVUS® GLASS WELCOMES NEW FRANCHISEES ANTHONY AND NICK CARRATU

St. Paul, MN - May 23, 2019— NOVUS Glass, the innovator of windshield repair, is excited to announce the addition of new franchisees, Anthony and Nick Carratu. The Carratus have just opened a NOVUS Glass Franchise in Greensboro, North Carolina, known as NOVUS Glass of the Triad. From left to right: Nick and Anthony Carratu,…

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NOVUS® GLASS WELCOMES NEW FRANCHISEES PAIGE AND TREY SOLMS

St. Paul, MN–May 31st, 2019— NOVUS Glass, the innovator of windshield repair, is excited to announce the addition of new franchisees, Paige and Trey Solms. Opening the first NOVUS Glass location in the Daytona area, the Solms will service Volusia, Flagler and the City of Palm Coast. From left to right Ted Andersen, VP of…

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One Hundred Years of Auto Glass Technology

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Auto glass tends to be something most people think about only when they get a ding or a crack. But there is a century of technology that goes into your auto’s windshield. Here are some interesting facts about auto glass and how technology has improved it over the years. Have you ever wondered what those…

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New Role for Millennials? Franchise Owners!

New Role for Millennials? Franchise Owners!

Once the much-maligned generation of entry-level workers, Millennials are moving into a new role as business owners and the franchise industry is taking notice. Millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are almost all adults now and understand the power of franchising better than most, probably because they grew up eating at fast casual restaurants like…

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