Ludwina's Blog: Red Tent Radio Ep #29 featuring Brian Keen from Franchising Made Easy

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Red Tent Radio Ep #29 featuring Brian Keen from Franchising Made Easy

Red Tent Radio | Brian Keen | Franchising Made Easy

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Brian Keen
Brian has 40 years experience nationally and overseas as a business owner and company director, focusing on business growth, particularly sales & marketing in the franchising industry.

Brian is from Uxbridge on the outskirts of London where he qualified as a quantity surveyor. He emigrated to Blantyre, Malawi in 1966 where he soon left quantity surveying behind to start his career as an entrepreneur when he established a building and development company. He continued this business direction when he and his family moved to Perth in 1975.

By the early 80’s, Brian left building behind and joined the franchising sector when he became a franchisee with the then new BedShed group, opening and operating seven stores in five years. It didn’t take him long to realize he wanted to be involved with creating franchises for himself. So he left BedShed and established a national franchise consultancy and sales group, the Franchise Alliance.

While he was with the Franchise Alliance, it was involved with developing franchise business systems and sales strategies for over 40 businesses including household names such as Ultratune, Jim’s Mowing and Donut King. The Franchise Alliance also operated internationally with groups such as Expense Reduction Analysts. Within the first five years, Brian also built his own six franchise groups with over 120 outlets. The Franchise Alliance still operates successfully in five states and New Zealand.

Today Brian has established a new franchise business, ‘How To Franchise Simply’ which delivers a simpler step-by-step franchising system in a number of different media including the internet and through workshops.

Brian is also the founder of MicroLoan Foundation Australia, a charity providing small business loans to impoverished women in Malawi.

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Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 27th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks
Tags: Ludwina Dautovic, Small Business Podcast, Women's Business, Red Tent Radio, The Red Tent Woman, Franchising Made Easy, Brian Keen

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