What\u2019s next for you and your business? <\/strong>
Right now I am squeezing all the possible potential out of this business through proper marketing and accounting. This is after I streamlined operations, then built my customer base through networking and sales. I\u2019ve learned so much in this endeavor, and I love it! What\u2019s next? More growing, more learning and, hopefully, more success. I am looking into how to apply my interest and knowledge of 3D printing to this business, and others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Shutterstock October 25, 2015 Franchise Players is Entrepreneur\u2019s Q&A interview column that puts the spotlight on franchisees. If you\u2019re a franchisee with advice and tips to share, email franchiseplayers@entrepreneur.com.Kevin Papula had a nice niche in life — IT director of a company with 300 employees. But the desire to start his own business prevailed,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiseindustryblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}