advantages of franchising a business to the franchisor?
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1. Franchisee provides the capital (not you) to expand the business, which in essence is using other people's money\n\n2. Access to motivated and trained managers - franchisees do not want to lose their investment so they want to make sure they have the best managers to run their franchised stores\n\n3. Greater efficiency - otherwise, franchisee loses money and that is always a great motivation\n\n4. Rapid expansion - you can immediately open stores in chosen geographic areas without you raising the capital for it\n\n5. Greater buying leverage - when purchasing materials and supplies, you get better deals because of your bulk purchase and you save money in the process\n\n6. Better locations - the more visible your business has become, the easier it is to attract landlords to your business; landlords want high-visible businesses in their rental property and if they know your business is in the best shopping malls or strip malls, they are more likely to give you concessions\n\n7. Market dominance - easier to squeeze out the competition with your strategic presence\n\n8. Greater resources for marketing - franchisees are often required to market the business and to contribute royalty fees for marketing allowing the company to pursue greater marketing opportunities\n\n9. Increased revenue sources = franchisor gets paid franchise fees, franchise royalty, equipment and supplies, and other fees and charges to franchisee and those constitute additional revenue stream for the franchisor.\n\n10. Greater growth potential - franchised business tend to grow faster and bigger\n\nHope this helps\nIsabel Isidro\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Once you get the place incorporated then you need to think about franchising and merchandising subsets.  With the proper marketting, logo, and theme-song you should become a stellar success.
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Lets use examples.  Say you want to start a restaurant, but don't have the money to do it yourself.  You would buy a franchise, and the company you get the franchise from builds it and you run it, using their name, paying a portion of the profits until it's paid for, and then you own the business, then you can change the name because it's yours.\nNow for licensing.\nWhen you buy software, you are really only licensing it.  You will never really own it.
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if ur looking for a franchise, $ is not the first to look at. have to research and understand the the biz more :) i hv friends in 7/11 franchise biz and Ya kun can give u more tips. feel free to email me :)
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I assume that you're talking about joining an existing chain, rather than franchising out your own new chain, right?\n\nIf that's true, there are different requirements for each chain.  You should contact the individual companies to learn if they are selling franchises, and if so, what costs are.  There is not a standard fee for all of them.  They each set their own requirements.  However, I suspect it is quite expensive if it's anything like franchises in other businesses. \n\nBest of luck to you.
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http://www.bodellconsulting.com/restaurantplans.htm\n\nHere's a whole new structure that seems to be gaining in popularity that is an option to franchising. It's called licensing. I'm utilizing this structure to offer several Turn-Key Restaurant Plans I now have available.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nbodell1@cox.net\n(316) 390-6598\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com\n\nFree initial consultations
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Acquire a license of affiliation/franchise from the company .
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All partnerships, trusts, estates, not for profits and corporations need an EIN.  This is in order to be able to report and file taxes.  \n\nIf you mean why would a sole-proprietor want one, the answer is that while it doesn't give any tax advantage, it allows you to give vendors and customers a number OTHER than your Social Security Number as identification.  This keeps your SSN a little more private.  Also, having an EIN gives the appearance of a true business, as opposed to just working by yourself.
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I'm not doing all your homework for you, but I'll help.  The biggest disadvantage of sole proprietorship is liability.  If the business goes belly up, they can come after your personal assets.  Also you are more susceptible to lawsuits.
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There are many advantages, but the biggest are limited liabilty, and avoidance of double taxation. A LLC avoids liability to be placed on an individual or owner of the company. If the company gets sued, the owner's personal assets are safe. Also in a LLC, if you chose for it to be treated as a partnership all the earnings get passed on to the partners through the 1065 and k-1's and are only taxed on the individuals return. If you need help getting your business up and running contact info@strangmanagement.com
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If you are left with this only option then you can adopt this way... I think there are communities present who tend to find short cut of everything...\n\nIf you can obtain the business by increasing the services or price cut or anyother way then why to get into it???\n\nBut if you are competing with the similiar people who also tend to find  the shortcut then there is nothing wrong or unethical to obtain the business in your own way...
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You could look into setting up a franchise from a well known temp agency. That way you would have name recognition. You could contact their corporate offices and see what their franchising requirements are.
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Well first if you plan on franchising, then you would need to look into that with the company's corporation, and they usually give you steps to go through. \n\nOwning your own business is alot of hard work, Though I dont know the process, my parents own a business. So I do know that really, you need to save money.\nDepending on what kinda store you want to own, you may need a college degree. \nBut my suggestion would be, save! \nGood luck
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The information provided by the previous answerer is quite exhaustive and useful, but is best suited to the big business houses with ample funds. Your question is about small business, as such please search out retail opportunities at:\nhttp://www.franchise-international.net/franchising/Retail-Franchise-Opportunities/44
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Franchise's are a money pit, which means they take all your saveings and leave you with nothing, unless you can buy in, ride the storm for a year and sell it to another sucker, i would stay away from franchise's. Unless it's McDonalds.
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Depends. If you are selling, the benefits are obvious; exposure, advertising, etc. If you are buying, it depends on how much you know about certain things; for example, a realtor is responsible to let you know about certain things that an independent seller may 'overlook'; a leaky toilet a rotted foundation, etc. And fighting someone after you've bought the house may be tough. The person may claim they didn't know anything about the home's faults when they sold it to you. A realtor is less likely to take that chance for fear of lawsuits.
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if the company operates in different parts of world, then using ebusiness is a huge advantage for it.\n\n* purchase orders can be send with secured protocol to different office.\n\nit is also helpful for faster communication between different sites.