April 2009

Compliance Program Helps Franchise Systems Avoid Costly Mistakes

Franchise Site

SmartBrief: When it comes to legal compliance and dispute-resolution issues, the franchising community relies on International Franchise Association to help it build and maintain strong systems focused on healthy franchise relations. IFA’s Franchise Sales Compliance program is a critical component of its comprehensive Self Regulation program, which guides franchise systems in knowing and complying with […]

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Park City Storage Franchisee Plans Opening For $1.2M Warehouse

Franchise Site

Bizjournals.com: A local Portable on Demand Storage franchise on Thursday will mark the opening of a $1.2 million warehouse in Park City. The opening coincides with the company’s three-year anniversary in the Wichita market. Ed Azar opened the franchise April 15, 2006 and operated out of a temporary site until the 35,000-square-foot warehouse was finished

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Mid-Market Innovators

Administrivia

Mid-Market Innovators is a new site brought to you by Sun Microsystems and Intel that I’m participating in. It is a site for mid-market IT pros that offers advice from leading authors in business and technology on how to align your business and IT strategies to save money, plan for growth and foster innovation. In

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Bartering is Back in Business

Ideas

photo credit: ExperienceLA Bartering is no stranger to start-up businesses especially in the past, but today bartering is growing more and more with the recent recession. Businesses trade services and products with another business to help both of them maintain their cash flow. Businesses of all sizes are begining to use the barter system and

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Franchisees Cope With Recession

Franchise Site

NuWire Investor: The global recession is putting franchisees in that classic spot between a rock and a hard place. According to Charles Miller, a shareholder and director of San Francisco-based law firm Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant and Miller, a variety of factors are putting the squeeze on franchisees. “They have an obligation to pay royalties, franchise

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