This is the funniest headline I’ve EVER read in the Wall Street Journal: Two of the Three Little Pigs Would Have Trouble Getting a Loan Like many Americans, Jon and Laura Hagar are searching for a lender to refinance their home loan. But banks are leery of the Hagars. Their rural Colorado house is made […]
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Oak Brook Business Ledger: Many people looking to buy a business consider buying a franchise. After all, they think the franchisor has a cookie-cutter approach that can’t miss and they can just walk into the new business, which will be flush with cash. In the numbers I have read, four out of five new franchise
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Reuters: Pretzelmaker(®) announced today that the Company is introducing a new pretzel flavor for fall – Pumpkin Spice. Available for a limited time, the specialty pretzel is topped with a crunchy pumpkin spice blend with caramel sauce either drizzled over the top or served on the side. Pretzelmaker is managed by NexCen Franchise Management, Inc.,
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Earthtimes: Franchise Direct, one of the world’s top franchise portals, has released its first-annual list of the Top 100 Global Franchises. Franchise Direct arrived at these rankings after examining thousands of franchises worldwide. Franchising plays a major role in the global economy, and this list highlights the franchise businesses that have best-invested in international development.
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Examiner.com: One of the more popular avenues of achieving “financial freedom†is network marketing. The vision of working hard for a while and then having “residual income†forever “without working†is appealing on many levels. So how does that work in practice? I am not going to bore you with statistics and case studies, although
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Wall Street Journal: How best to resolve serious disputes between franchiser and franchisee remains a matter of, well, disagreement. Which is preferable, judge and jury or arbitrator? Those favoring arbitration contend it is faster than court litigation. Others say that the finality of an arbitrator’s decision – the loser is stuck with it – makes
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Franchising: Dymocks has acquired an 80 percent equity stake in Healthy Habits, the sandwich bar business recently listed by BRW as the fifth fastest growing franchise by revenue. Multiple award-winning founder and owner, Katherine Sampson, retains 20 per cent of the company and will remain as managing director. Sampson said Dymocks’ retail and franchise experience
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SourceWire: 2009 is predicted to be a boom year for the franchise industry according to specialist consultancy Franchise Development Services (FDS). The company, which also publishes The Franchise Magazine and The UK Franchise Directory, reports that since the end of November 2008 over 2,000 people registered an interest in owning and operating a franchise through
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College Mogul: Are you able to pitch your company in under a minute, or even thirty seconds? Well, you should be able to do it in one sentence. The easiest way to do this is to compare your model to another one (or two if it is a combination) that people already know and understand.
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