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06/05/2026

Most companies build SOPs to solve today's problem.

The best ones build them to survive tomorrow's growth stage.

Charles Chang of Unified Technologies Group (UTG) shared a mindset on the RevOps Champions podcast that every operational leader should internalize:
Data isn't just a diagnostic tool, it's a prediction engine.

The organizations that scale consistently aren't waiting for systems to break.

They're tracking the early signals that tell them: this process has maybe another year left before it creates friction.

That shift, from reactive troubleshooting to proactive trend-spotting, changes how you build everything downstream.

Your hiring plan. Your SOP review cadence. Your technology roadmap.

It even changes how you define success: not "did we fix it?" but "did we see it coming?"

For any leader managing growth, the operational question isn't whether your systems will eventually break. It's whether you'll know before they do.

06/02/2026

Most franchise brands separate marketing and operations. Marketing drives demand. Operations fulfills it.

Clean handoff, except it quietly costs them revenue every day.

The franchise operators building real enterprise value don't wait for the next campaign. They train their teams to treat every customer interaction as a moment that either earns the next visit or loses it. That's not just a marketing strategy. That's an operations strategy.

In this Short, we break down why operators must own sales, and what changes when they do.

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05/29/2026

The market isn't going to warn you that you're falling behind. It just moves on without you.

Most franchise brands don't fall behind because of one catastrophic decision. They fall behind by making a thousand small choices rooted in the comfort of what used to work.

Marcus Sheridan calls it the pride cycle: → Success erodes urgency → Fading urgency slows innovation → Suddenly, you're running a 2019 playbook in a 2025 market

We see it consistently in franchise growth, and it usually shows up first in RevOps infrastructure.

The reporting that worked at 30 locations quietly becomes the operational ceiling at 80. The workflows built for one stage of growth create friction at the next. And by the time leadership feels it, the gap has been widening for months.

Breakthrough franchise leaders don't just fix what's broken. They relentlessly question what's working.

As Marcus puts it: "It's the rule breakers that always end up becoming the rule makers."

The question worth bringing to your revenue leadership team this week isn't "what's broken?"
It's: "What are we doing exactly the same way we did five years ago, and why?"

That answer is usually where the real growth opportunity is hiding.

The revenue operations model that got you to 150 locations will actively work against you past that point.That's not a w...
05/27/2026

The revenue operations model that got you to 150 locations will actively work against you past that point.

That's not a warning. That's a pattern.

Most franchise executives sense something is wrong before they can name it. Growth is still happening. Units are still opening. Revenue is still climbing.

But the easy wins are harder to find. The corporate team is busier than ever. And the data they need to make confident decisions is always one spreadsheet away from being ready.

This is the 150-location inflection point.
It's not a failure of ex*****on. It's a failure of infrastructure.

The operational model that built your first 150 units was designed for replication. The same playbook, unit after unit. It works... until the network gets complex enough that the cracks in your systems start showing up as cracks in your guest experience, your compliance posture, and your franchisee relationships.

Four places revenue quietly disappears at scale:
1. Communication collision: corporate, district managers, and local staff are all messaging the same guest. Nobody has visibility into what the others are doing.
2. Lifetime value blindspot: your POS knows about visits. Your email platform knows about opens. Nobody's connecting those signals into a guest profile that's actually usable.
3. Frontline burnout: your best people are doing data entry that your technology should be handling.
4. Compliance exposure: a guest who opts out through your corporate system may still receive a text from a local manager using a separate app. At 500 locations, that's a TCPA liability.

The brands scaling past 500 units aren't working harder. They built the foundation first.

Full article in the comments.

05/22/2026

Buying a franchise gives you a system. It doesn't give you the skills to run a business.

That's not a flaw in franchise design, it's a legal and financial reality.

Aicha Bascaro, Founder & CEO of the American Franchise Academy, points to two specific barriers that leave many franchise owners figuring out the "business side" on their own:
• The Joint Employer Trap Since 2015, franchisors have had to pull back. Too much involvement in recruiting, interviewing, or onboarding creates legal exposure as a joint employer. To protect the brand, the human element gets left to you.
• The Resource Reality Building product and service training is standard. Building the equivalent of a business management degree for every owner? Most emerging brands don't have the budget or the bandwidth.

You get a proven brand and an operational playbook. What you don't always get is the business acumen needed to turn those operations into profitability.

The gap between a "great product" and a "profitable business" is where many owners get stuck.

The brand is your foundation. The business management is yours to master. Don't wait for the franchise playbook to teach you how to be a CEO.

05/05/2026

Early-stage founder: "I will figure it out." Seasoned founder: "Who has already done this?"

Brady Carlsen, Co-Founder & COO of The Back Nine Golf, went from zero franchise experience to 160+ locations. His secret? Proximity to experts.

"Join the IFA, go to the conferences, get involved in franchising because that will teach you more than anything."

Don't pay for your education with expensive mistakes. Pay for it by getting in the right rooms.

The difference between reading a framework and talking to an operator is the difference between theory and reality. If you are scaling a multi-location brand, find your peers.

04/21/2026

Technology supports your franchise, but don't lose sight of who you are.

John W. Francis, Franchise Expert, Advisor and Coach, shared this simple reminder that he sees getting lost as AI dominates conversations.

He sees franchise teams moving fast on AI without asking two important questions:
1. Where's the ROI?
2. What are you doing with the freed-up capacity?

If you can't answer these questions, your efficiency isn't real yet. It’s just potential and it has the potential to take you off course from your mission.

The leaders who can answer them are using AI to support franchisees and scale more focused organizations.

04/16/2026

"I missed my MQL goal by a mile. I didn't end up getting my bonus that quarter, but I stand by the decision."

Ryan Gunn, Founder and Chief Education Officer of Attribution Academy, shared his experience of what misalignment looks like in real life.

After a quarter where his team grew the average deal size 8x and hit revenue targets, they still missed their MQL metric. Because that wasn't the metric that mattered most.

Sometimes teams and systems are set up to reward the easy metric over the right outcome.

Gunn made the right call for the business, but the measurement framework hadn't caught up.

Don't make your team choose between driving real growth and hitting their KPIs. If doing the right thing for the business costs a high-performer their bonus, your metrics are broken.

Alignment means ensuring your measurement keeps pace with your strategy.

That's a wrap on DenamiDays 2026! 💙Every year, we bring our team together to celebrate our wins and plan the future toge...
04/09/2026

That's a wrap on DenamiDays 2026! 💙

Every year, we bring our team together to celebrate our wins and plan the future together. Part of the team even made it to Puttshack for a (mostly friendly) game of mini golf.

This year included an AI hackathon, a session with HubSpot, mapping out what we're building toward, and making commitments to each other about what we'll stop, fix, and hold ourselves accountable for this quarter.

This team genuinely loves what they do and this time together reminds us how lucky we are to work together. Leaving grateful and excited for what we will accomplish together in the next year!

04/08/2026

Growth has a way of exposing what stability hides.

• The manual handoff that was fine when you had two sales reps creates issues at six.
• The reporting that was close enough becomes a liability when you hit 20+ locations.
• The workaround that made sense to just “get it done” last year is now a full-time job.

These are the differences between systems that run and systems that scale.

Steve Maule, VP of Global Sales at Acclaro, join us on the RevOps Champions podcast and shared, "When things are fairly steady, it hides a multitude of misalignments.”

A system that runs looks fine, until growth turns up the pressure and everything that was quietly misaligned is suddenly screaming. It’s easy to miss the signs or think they’re natural growing pains that will correct themselves.

Instead of ignoring or patching issues, Maule recommends focusing first on clarity and then on communication.

In our experience, the teams that are willing to honestly assess where their foundation is strong and where it’s cracking are the ones who can turn their functioning systems into ones that scale with their growth.

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