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This section provides advice to help you understand what goes into running a franchise. We hope to be able to help you decide which franchise is best for you.

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Franchising marketplace: a snapshot
Many aspiring franchisees waste their time targeting the wrong sectors, reveals the FranchiseSales.co.uk quarterly survey. The global survey of franchisors and franchisees, whose average age is 43 and 80% of ...
Video: Finding the Right Franchise
FranchiseSales.com Chairman Marcus Markou provides some tips on how to find the franchise opportunity that is right for you, in this short video. ...
What Do I Do Now?
Very often potential franchisees tend to get excited over the latest new franchise opportunity - without any thought about whether it is the best business model, the right return-on-investment or ...
Preparing your Business Plan
Planning is: Taking prudent, calculated risks rather than blindly reacting to events Making the best use of available resources Setting a path to achieve the lifestyle you want All businesses ...
Top Ten Tips on Choosing a Franchise
The benefits of the franchise model have been well established, but how do you decide which franchise is right for you? Suzie McCafferty, international development director of Smart Cartridge, one ...
The Franchise Agreement: the essentials
A franchise agreement is the contract you have to sign when you buy a franchise. It sets out the period of the franchise; the obligations that franchisor and franchisee have ...
How Franchisees Are Selected
Working as a franchisee for a franchise means that you are working in partnership with another business. Different franchises look for different qualities in their franchisees. Certain franchise opportunities also ...
Selling Your Franchise in the Future
A franchise is a business; therefore, it is important for every business owner to have an exit strategy for his franchise. Every year hundreds of successful franchises are sold providing ...
Franchising: the Pros and Cons
Buying a franchise is, in many ways, the easiest way into the business world for the budding entrepreneur. But it also means sacrificing a degree of independence and control - ...
Franchising: what's it all about?
In essence, franchising is a means of growing an established business through the licensing of its business format and brand to an individual business person. The entrepreneur then owns a ...