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What nobody tells you about franchises
The promise of success against the reality nobody warns you about
«Lo que nadie te cuenta sobre las franquicias» — written and published in Spanish.
Cecilia opened 15 franchises in Buenos Aires. This is what that actually involved — the promise against the reality — written for anyone weighing up the same decision.
There was less than $500 in the safe. Five franchises closed. The phone ringing with reproaches. When exactly did it all fall apart?
Cecilia Alvarez
- Author
- Cecilia Alvarez
- Language
- Spanish
- Format
- Paperback · eBook
The chapters
- Mi marca Paloma Nails Boutique y el sueño de crecer
- El sueño de escalar
- Definición básica del modelo de franquicias
- El modelo de franquicias: ventajas y trampas
- Superando la pandemia
- Herramientas críticas para desmitificar las promesas
- El equipo para soportar la expansión
- Elegir a los franquiciados: mi mayor desafío
- Los errores típicos a la hora de elegir franquiciados
- La relación franquiciante-franquiciado
- Conflictos comunes con los franquiciados
- Problemas para mantener los estándares de calidad
- Resistencia a seguir tus lineamientos
- Cómo manejar el estrés en tu rol como franquiciante
- Claves para establecer los no negociables
- Impacto en tu negocio
- Cuando todo comenzó a desmoronarse
- Conflictos legales
- Las consecuencias: impacto financiero
- Impacto emocional: estrés, frustración, pérdida de confianza
- Impacto en tu marca: deterioro de imagen o pérdida de clientes
- Abandonar el modelo de franquicia
- Evaluación de compatibilidad entre franquiciante y franquiciado
- La importancia de proteger los valores de tu negocio
- Cómo evitar depender de franquiciados sin perder control
- Consejos para otros emprendedores
- Manual de marca para una franquicia
- Cómo identificar a un franquiciado problemático
- ¿Ya estás dentro del modelo de franquicia?
- Qué hacer ante un escrache en redes sociales
- El peso de la sociedad: ¿cuántos socios son demasiados?
- Otros modelos de expansión que pueden funcionar mejor
- Mi mensaje final para emprendedores
- Mi pasión por ser una empresaria exitosa y crear empresas
- Puntos que debes incluir en tu contrato
- Lista de errores comunes
- Recursos extremadamente importantes
- Preguntas de reflexión
- Lecciones aprendidas a través del fracaso
- Acciones de marketing para vos, tu negocio, tu marca
- Testimonios reales
- Capítulo final: de Varela al mundo
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The complete page for this book is published in Spanish, the language the book itself is written in.
What it is about
The story nobody dared to tell
This is not a technical manual. It is Cecilia's real story — unfiltered — about what it means to franchise a brand, lose control of what you built, and start again from the bottom.
Paloma Nails Boutique reached Puerto Madero, Palermo and Recoleta. The franchise model promised freedom, passive income and fast expansion. What nobody told her was what came next: franchisees who stopped paying, five locations closed overnight, legal notices, disputes, the pandemic at the worst possible moment and $500 in the safe. This book exists so you do not have to learn it the most expensive way.
- What consultants do not tell you — the promises against what you actually find once you sign
- How to survive a franchise crisis — pandemic, closed locations, disputes and rebuilding
- The traps in the model — poor franchisee selection, brand erosion and hidden costs
- Critical tools for deciding on real information — before signing any contract
- The rebuild — from $500 in the safe to a new chapter in Miami on an O-1 visa
The author
Written from real experience
More than 20 years in the industry. Pandemic, collapse, rebuilding. An O-1 extraordinary ability visa. Miami. This book is the result of all of it.
Cecilia Alvarez founded Paloma Nails Boutique and Paloma Nails School, trained more than 10,000 students and expanded her brand through the franchise model across the finest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. She lived the rise, the pandemic, the collapse and the rebuild. Today she works from Miami on an O-1 visa, does the nails of Tini Stoessel, Young Miko and Stefi Roitman, and advises beauty entrepreneurs across the continent.
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