The Franchising Way to Grow
Lisa Flynn, a mother of two young boys, never relished having her children photographed. For 
her, birth announcements and holiday portraits meant either spending a small fortune for a professional photographer who didn’t cater to colicky clientele or settling for cheesy props and fuzzy blue backdrops at the mall portrait studio. "I thought, ‘There has got to be a better way to get your kid’s picture taken,’ " says Flynn, who was running her own marketing and advertising firm at the time. She looked into 
buying a franchise that specialized in children’s photography but, unimpressed, created her own studio instead. In 2006 she opened Whippersnappers Studio, a kid-friendly portrait specialist in Bend, Ore., that captures kids, families, and even pets in high-quality photographs. Read full story:
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