Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Sebastien
Terry Dunn wrote a good post on his franchise blog about how franchising seems to be a safer bet than starting your own business during these tough economic times.
Depending upon your source of information, we are headed into a recession or a depression or even a catastrophic cessation of all business activities. By any definition, [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Blair
When buying a franchise, one of the greatest tools you have at your disposal is the ability to contact current franchisees. Not contacting them and investigating their opinion of the franchisor thoroughly would be a big mistake. When you contact a current franchisee, you get the opinion and outlook of someone who is in [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Sebastien
You have to always aim at having a better franchise business operation by seeking to improve your methods and making them as efficient as possible especially at the level of your outlets. This is important in all businesses in modern times but especially in a franchising organization. The ultimate secret that will enable you to [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Sebastien
If you thought that the only finances you need to come up with in order to set-up your franchise business are the initial franchise fees, you thought wrong. In order to set up your dream business, there are many other finances to think of.
Understand that the initial franchise fee is simply the money you put [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Sebastien
A quick post to let everyone know that the World Franchising team is currently compiling information about a large amount of franchise companies for the third Edition of Bond’s Top 100 Franchises.
How does that work? Well, we evaluate companies on the basis of historical performance, brand equity, market dynamics, franchisee satisfaction, the level of initial [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Sebastien
An article titled “Owners Say Franchisers Are Passing on More Costs” in the Wall Street Journal today highlights how some franchise companies are asking franchisees to pay for expenses that those franchisees were not supposed to pay in the first place.
Why this sudden way of changing “who pays what”? Well, simply because of the economic [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Sebastien
The International Franchise Association created a website called www.FranchisingVotes.com to help the franchising community register to vote and make it to the polls on Nov. 4.
The site includes access to registration requirements and deadlines for every state, information on federal candidates around the country, voting records of current lawmakers in the 110th Congress and the [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Sebastien
I was playing around on YouTube when I came across this video about A All Animal Control. Wildlife in the home or office can do serious structural damage. Animals destroy electrical wiring, phone, cable, computer lines and security systems. Wildlife can also be carriers of disease such as rabies, distemper and many other serious diseases. [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Sebastien
When you’re going into the fiercely competitive world of franchising, you have to understand that you’ll basically be walking into a battleground. There are hundreds just like you everywhere, who could not be happier than when they see you fail. In the world of franchising there are customers to win, market shares to possess and [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Sebastien
New franchise law blog FranchiseLawyerBlog.com is starting a series of posts about how to develop a franchise system. Although our blog is mostly focused on potential franchise buyers, I thought it would be interesting to see what’s happening on the franchisor’s side. As a potential franchisee, you must know that if sometimes a franchise opportunity [...]
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