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		<title>NMFI Selects 50 Top Franchises for Minorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI) has compiled its third annual list of “50 Top Franchises for Minorities.” The results of this survey were featured in the October 2, 2009 issue of USA Today in the Franchising Today section. A copy of the article and list can be found here. For a listing of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2009/10/02/nmfi-selects-50-top-franchises-for-minorities-2/</link>
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		<title>World Franchising Network selects Top 100 Franchises for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Franchising Network is pleased to announce its selection of companies for its annual list of Top 100 Franchises. The results have been published in Bond’s Top 100 Franchises (3rd Edition), which is now available for purchase here. A list of the companies selected for inclusion can be found here. The publication includes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2009/09/29/world-franchising-network-selects-top-100-franchises-for-2009/</link>
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		<title>National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI) selects Top 25 Franchises for Hispanics for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI) has compiled its annual list of the Top 25 Franchises for Hispanics. The results were published in the April issue of PODER (“ability” or “power” in Spanish) Magazine, the successor to Hispanic Enterprise. A copy of the article and list can be found here. For a listing of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2009/04/15/national-minority-franchising-initiative-nmfi-selects-top-25-franchises-for-hispanics-for-2009/</link>
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		<title>Franchise Deals Still Getting Done Despite Credit Crunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post by Scott Kern, with Franchise Law Source.
Credit is tight.  Prospective franchisees are finding it difficult to secure loans.  Even the Small Business Administration Section 7 Guaranteed Loan is hard to come by in this environment.  Despite the government’s guarantee of the largest part of the loan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/12/19/franchise-deals-still-getting-done-despite-credit-crunch/</link>
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		<title>Franchising vs. starting your own business in an unfriendly economic environment</title>
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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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/30/franchising-vs-starting-your-own-business-in-an-unfriendly-economic-environment/</link>
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		<title>Evaluate a Franchise by Talking to Current Franchisees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/28/evaluate-a-franchise-by-talking-to-current-franchisees/</link>
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		<title>The Secret to Streamlining Your Franchising Operations and Eliminating Your Weaknesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/24/the-secret-to-streamlining-your-franchising-operations-and-eliminating-your-weaknesses/</link>
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		<title>The Significance of Franchise Fees</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/23/the-significance-of-franchise-fees/</link>
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		<title>Compiling information for the Top 100 Franchises guide</title>
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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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/22/compiling-information-for-the-top-100-franchises-guide/</link>
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		<title>Franchisees being forced to pay for a variety of expenses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article titled &#8220;Owners Say Franchisers Are Passing on More Costs&#8221; 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 &#8220;who pays what&#8221;? Well, simply because of the economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldfranchising.com/blog/2008/10/22/franchisees-being-forced-to-pay-for-a-variety-of-expenses/</link>
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