Franchise Lead Generation Best Practices

How To Avoid Looking Like Spam, and Get Through to Legitimate Franchise Prospects

December 17, 2025 – This week, we attempt to provide a concise review of the basics of how franchise development teams can get through to interested prospects. A comprehensive action plan is beyond the scope of this article, but we are attempting to provide a “first aid” list of the 20% of suggestions that might yield 80% of the results, by channel.

The Preferred Sequence of Channels for Initial Prospect Contact

July 30, 2025 – According to a 2020 study by Pew Research, only 19% of Americans will take a call from a number they are unfamiliar with. In April 2021, Apple launched its “block unknown callers” feature, followed by “live voice mail” in September 2023, which allows recipients to screen unknown calls without picking up.

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