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Expanding your business in a franchise system
If you are a successful franchise of a large franchise brand or chain, chances are you will wish to expand. The most important thing to do is make sure you are on the most positive terms with your franchisor. You should tell your franchisor at the earliest point of your plan to expand.
Franchise Buyers from Hell
I ran a franchise company for many years, a car wash franchise, and we use to get the most ridiculous franchise buyers who thought they wanted a franchise.
FTC Reviews The Franchise Rule
After more than a decade since the last attempt to update the 1970?s Franchise Rule The Federal Trade Commission is at it again. May I ask why we are looking at reviewing these rules for franchising, where no problems exist? Why we are looking to tighten up ambiguities, which over time have occurred in this sector, when we should be dismantling the over regulations choking the industry?
Cost Effective Franchise Regulations, Come again
The Franchise Group at the Federal Trade Commission in all their ego and glory has proclaimed that franchise disclosure laws are ?Cost Effective.? I hate to break it to the FTC, but your comments and court are completely naked.
What If A Franchise Was Run Like a Typical Home Based Business and Residual Income?
Have you ever wondered how a Franchise would do if run like a typical home business? This might give you some idea. There is something that is long as I live I will never understand. Well I suppose actually there are several things, however right now this is business focused. That something is residual income.
Franchise Disclosure Law and The Right To Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission enforces franchise company disclosure rules. They have developed a policy for the uniform franchise disclosure laws. The UFOC contains massive amounts of disclosure and often is 200 pages, most of which no one ever reads. It also contains all the franchisor?s present franchisee?s phone numbers.