Gazette.net Montgomery County Sports:
Ebony Freeman has operated an exotic dance course business in Suitland for about three years. Ibrahim Turay has been struggling to promote his cleaning business in Upper Marlboro. And Janetta S. Hemsely just wants advice on how to manage her newly inherited trucking company in Fort Washington.
For each of these small-business owners, the world of franchising presented an opportunity for both knowledge and expansion during a county-sponsored seminar Friday at the Country Club at Woodmore in Mitchellville. More than 82 people, both business owners and those aspiring to be one, mined the expertise of franchisers, legal advisers, the International Franchise Association, area developers and financing representatives. Read more.