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Why Franchise Owners Have to Be Especially Careful on Social Media For the franchise world—in which one negative comment can affect an entire system of corporate owners and franchisees—managing your reputation is especially critical.

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

A decade ago Terry Powell, founder of career-coaching franchise The Entrepreneur's Source, hadn't fully grasped the implications of the transparent world of social media. That changed when he got into a dispute with 14 of his franchisees who were resisting a switch to a digital marketing system.

"This group was working outside the system and falsifying their marketing reports," Powell explains. "They realized that if the system was automated, it would expose them."

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