Advice & Tools
Animoto.com
Easily create high quality videos with your photos and video clips within minutes.
BizQuest.com
BizQuest.com lists frozen yogurt shops that are for sale. You can refine your search by location, price, industry and more. You can also list your shop for sale.
http://www.bizquest.com/yogurt-stores-frozen-yogurt-shops-for-sale/
Capterra
Use Capterra to search for the right software for your business. Read user reviews.
Carpigiani’s Dessert Club
Club members enjoy access to Carpigiani’s content, including free webinars and advice.
https://www.carpigiani.co.uk/dessert-club/
Clip Art Logo
Find free and premium (paid) frozen yogurt clip art on this website.
http://www.clipartlogo.com/free/frozen-yogurt.html
Franchise Chatter
Franchise Chatter focuses on breaking franchise news, objective reviews of franchise opportunities, how-to articles, feature articles on successful franchisees, and a discussion forum.
http://www.franchisechatter.com/
FranchiseHelp.com
FranchiseHelp.com offers a free 1-to-1 consultation with a franchise expert and a free guide to buying a franchise in exchange for filling out the online form.
http://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/frozen-yogurt-industry-report
Fro-Yo Girl Speaks
Started by the founder of the IFYA in 2008, FYGS tracks the frozen yogurt industry, with a focus on California. It includes news (store openings, closings, promotions, new flavors, new spoons), reviews and more.
http://froyogirl.blogspot.com/
Frozen Yogurt Blog
The Frozen Yogurt Blog, sponsored by Café Cartel Systems, a provider of frozen yogurt point of sale systems, provides advice on opening your frozen yogurt store and making it successful, including location selection, marketing, and equipment.
http://thefrozenyogurtblog.wordpress.com/
Gaebler
The Gaebler website has over 100,000 original articles for entrepreneurs. Use the site search feature to find articles about running a frozen yogurt shop.
http://www.gaebler.com/Opening-an-Ice-Cream-and-Frozen-Yogurt-Shop.htm
Hydra Rinse
This blog focuses on food safety issues relevant to frozen yogurt shops.
http://www.hydrarinse.com/the-cold-truth/
Mobile Cuisine
This site is devoted to being the online resource for the mobile food industry. It features an online discussion area, classified ads, searchable directory of food trucks, list of food truck builders, food truck laws, food truck news and more.
Nanci’s Frozen Yogurt Blog
Nanci’s, a worldwide supplier of premium frozen yogurt and smoothies, also provides consulting for starting a new frozen yogurt shop. Their blog provides advice on operating a successful frozen yogurt business, equipment, marketing and more.
RestaurantOwner.com
RestaurantOwner.com has a library of over 300 downloadable templates, videos, webinars, discussion forums, articles, and more for restaurant owners.
http://www.restaurantowner.com
SCORE
SCORE is a non-profit association with over 12,000 volunteers dedicated to helping small businesses at little to no cost. Find a mentor, get confidential business counseling, find free tools and resources, and attend webinars and local workshops.
Sentry Equipment
Sentry Equipment has been a leading distributor of Electro Freeze for over 30 years and a leader in the frozen dessert industry. They’ve also posted training videos.
http://www.sentryequipment.net/blog#all
Slices Concession
Find soft serve machine manuals and tutorials and helpful articles focused on soft serve machines. Slices Concession is the leading seller of refurbished soft serve machines in the US.
Spaceman USA
Frozen yogurt and soft serve ice cream trends, advice, and more from Spaceman USA, a manufacturer of quality soft serve ice cream machines, and frozen beverage machines
http://spacemanusa.com/category/blog/
Taylor Freezer of New England
Taylor Freezer of New England answers your most frequently asked questions about frozen yogurt machines and frozen yogurt.
http://www.taylornewengland.com/frequently-asked-questions/
YoCream University
Dannon YoCream customers have access to valuable sales tools, insider offers, and a promotions and rebate program that awards you for growing your business.
Training Programs
Acana Northeast
Acana Northeast offers workshops, seminars and one-on-one training; they help customers develop their ideas and dreams into highly profitable ice cream or frozen yogurt shops.
Honey Hill Farms
Honey Hill Farms runs a Yogologist program at their headquarters which involves a Creamery tour, shop owner manual, marketing advice, operations advice, etc. They also offer webinars.
http://thehoneyhillfarms.com/yogologists/become-a-yogologist
Scoop School
Offers an online video based training platform for prospective, new and existing ice cream and frozen dessert store owners