Here is why you, of all people, fell for it.
You are a marketer. A good one. You built this brand by knowing exactly how to make a stranger want what you sell, and then doing it at scale. That skill is real. It is also the reason you are about to waste a fortune.
Because the instinct that built your brand is whispering the obvious next move. If I can market my product, I can market my franchise. Same playbook, bigger ticket. Run the ads. Make the offer. Scale the spend.
It feels obvious. It is completely wrong. And it is the single most expensive assumption in franchising.