Buying a Franchise
Franchise Opportunities in Advertising and Marketing
TV’s Mad Men might make it look glamorous, dangerous, and extinct, but marketing is actually still an essential business service. The broad range of franchise business options listed below give you a chance to get into the ad game with a franchise that lets you help other businesses in your…
Just One Franchise: TCBY and Mrs. Fields
Just one franchise… but isn’t that two? In fact, TCBY and Mrs. Fields are both franchise business opportunities from Famous Brands International. For a limited time, they’re offering a Dual Brand Concept that lets you offer both warm, chewy cookies and cool, sweet frozen yogurt for the same investment. TCBY…
Franchises Flexing their Muscle
Some 80% of franchisees are male. No wonder plenty of popular franchises base their business models on the idea of men helping men with manly pursuits. Here are just a few of the franchises in this category. Filta Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions offers cooking oil filtration & fryer management for…
Choosing a Franchise Business Opportunity: Love or Money?
In his book Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entreprenuers, Norm Brodsky said people ask the wrong questions when they’re comparing business opportunities: I’m constantly hearing from people who have ten different business ideas they’re considering at the same time. They want to know which one I think is…
Just One Franchise: NZone
Remember those long summer days spent running and playing outdoors? Many of today’s kids won’t have those memories. According to an article from the National Wildlife Federation, children today spend more than seven hours in front of a screen and less than 30 minutes outside playing. It may be one…
Are Franchise Owners Business Owners?
A Forbes article listed 13 mistakes new franchisees make, and one of them was investing in a franchise business in order to be your own boss. “Franchising is based on conformity and uniformity,” the author said, “not freedom.” One of the great advantages of a franchise business is that you…
How Does that Franchise Handle Upgrades?
You’ve chosen a franchise business opportunity, let’s say, and you can tell it will be a great fit for you. The business systems seem ideal, the offerings are just what your community needs, and you can easily see yourself doing exactly what the franchisor describes as the daily routine in…
Choosing a Franchise: Quality Control
McDonald’s is the quintessential franchise example for many reasons, but one of the most important has to be the concept of standardization. Travelers could be sure of what they were getting at McDonald’s, so the sight of the Golden Arches during a long road trip could be a relief. One…
Just One Franchise: Vom Fass
Named German Retail Franchise of the Year in 2012, Vom Fass brings the world’s largest selection of oils, vinegars, spirits, liqueurs, and wine to American foodies through franchises. Johannes Kiderlen transformed his father’s business into a franchise focusing solely on these four products in 1994, and now the franchise is…
Choosing a Franchise: Trust
The goal in franchising, for many people, is to be able to follow a franchisor’s business model and see results. Instead of doing research and wasting money on trial and error, people figure, they can follow the franchisor’s system and bypass the hardest parts of starting a business. This makes…