Secrets of Choosing The Right Franchise: Your Guide To Researching, Selecting And Buying The Franchise Of Your Dreams
Secrets of Choosing a Franchise is an in depth guide to researching, selecting and buying the right franchise based on the individuals core strengths. Hansen takes his 42 years of franchising industry experience and gives key insights into choosing the best franchise opportunity for the reader. This guide will save you from making the mistake of going with the wrong franchise.
He teaches how to compare apples to apples when looking through the very complex Federal Disclosure Document. The book also gives the reader the direction to follow their individual giftedness and match it up to the right business. The sole purpose is to help individuals make their next vocation a vacation and helping them to discern which franchise will make a dream come true.
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Rubie's Costume Co The Smurfs Adult Papa Costume
Come to smurf village and join these little blue buddies while they sing and dance their way into your heart A world-leader in the creation of costumes, make up and accessories, rubie's costume company is a family-owned and run business based in new york state. With more than 60 years experience and the largest selection, rubie's has the costumes and accessories children and adults want for halloween and year-around dress up fun.
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Mexican Restaurant Complete Start Up Business Plan NEW
Complete Start Up Business Plan For 2008! -Sample Business Plan In Microsoft Word For EASY Editing! -Meets & Exceeds SBA, Lender, & Government Grant Agency Requirements -This Sample Plan Has Already Received FUNDING In 2008! Complete 7 Section Layout Including?.
-Executive Summary (A brief general summary of the other 6 sections) -Products & Services (Technically Accurate Product/Service Description including the NAICS Codes!) -Market Analysis (Covers the Total, Primary, & Target Market as well as Competition) -Facility & Operations (Physical Layout, Sources Of Supply, Available Labor Etc) -Sales Strategy (Includes Pricing Structure, Promotion & Distribution Strategy) -Management Structure (Business Owners Qualifications, Legal Structures Etc) -Financial Projections (Includes 3 year projected profit & Loss, Balance Sheets, Pro Forma Cash Flow Summaries, Etc All In Easy To Read & Edit Tables & Charts)
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Restaurant Empire
Restaurant Empire is the first game that faithfully recreates all the challenges of building and operating a restaurant franchise through a unique blend of business-simulation and RPG gameplay. From the makers of Hotel Giant.
Starting with nothing except some cash and a passion for food, build a restaurant from the bottom up - hire waiters, decorate, even cook the meals! Buy, build, outsell and under-price your competition. Featuring three culinary capitals to operate in, five restaurant cuisines to choose from, over 30 unique chefs to interact with and nearly 200 recipes to source, your business sense and culinary taste will be tested to the limit.
Not only do you control every aspect of running a restaurant from buying your restaurant to choosing its cuisine and decoration; you will also travel and meet with people that will help you establish your name as the greatest restaurateur the world has ever seen!
Will you use your culinary wizardry to out-cook chefs? What tactics and strategies will you employ to buy out the competition? You decide. With a combination of business strategy and role-playing game styles plus a free-form sandbox game mode, three huge cities, and over 30 playable chefs and a host of locations to travel to, Restaurant Empire is an epicurean delight of gastronomic proportions!
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- Choose the Campaign mode to discover the culinary world of Restaurant Empire, or play at your own pace and leisure with the Sandbox mode.
- Experience a thrilling adventure in the culinary world with a story-based campaign featuring 18 compelling scenarios.
- Use real-world business strategies to gain the upper hand against your comp
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How to Franchise Your Business: The Plain Speaking Guide for Business Owners
IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING FRANCHISING YOUR BUSINESS CLIVE SAWYER WILL HELP YOU. Clive Sawyer, Managing Director of Business Options, one of the UK's leading Franchise and Business Consultancies, has written this book to cut through the confusion and complexity surrounding franchising a business.
Clive, in his renowned plain speaking manner helps the reader assess whether franchising is the right expansion model for them. He then leads the reader, step by step though everything they will need to know. For anyone serious about franchising their business, this book is essential reading. "An insightful and thorough overview which will become essential reading for business owners considering franchising their business." Richard Holden, Head of Franchising, Lloyds Bank Group.
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Grow Smart, Risk Less: A Low-Capital Path to Multiplying Your Business Through Franchising
Experienced franchisor Shelly Sun shares practical advice, insights, and her own compelling experiences to help readers discover the power and avoid the pitfalls of franchising their businesses. This title features a low-risk, low-capital path to astounding growth. In today's economic environment, and long into the future, access to capital is limited. Successful business owners have few options for dramatically expanding their brand, taking it to the regional, national, or even international arena.
This book describes how readers, through franchising, can use other people's money and leverage their success for rapid growth; Covers the entire process of franchising. Most books on franchising focus on educating the franchisee, but this book is designed to fully educate the franchisor. The author walks readers through each stage of the franchising process: from determining if they have a franchisable concept, to assembling a professional team without wasting money, to adjusting the business model along the way for optimum growth, to growing as a leader to assume new challenges; Written by an experienced, nationally lauded franchiser.
Unlike many authors of books on franchising, Shelly Sun has been through the process, growing her business from $1 million to $100 million in five years. She's been named entrepreneur of the year by the International Franchise Association and is being featured on a network prime-time show about compelling companies. The book offers practical advice like that in "Franchising for Dummies", with a focus on business growth for the franchisor, as in "Franchising and Licensing" by Andrew Sherman.
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Franchise Your Business - 2nd edition
If you have a proven business system and are wishing to expand, franchising is a strong option. It provides a quick route to growth and uses other people's money and enthusiasm to open individual offices, shops, restaurants, salons, surgeries, units, van rounds, or service centres.
This book provides practical advice on how franchising works from two authors with years of experience. As well as being for potential franchisors, this book is also invaluable to owners of existing branch networks, practising franchisors and their management teams, and candidates for the Diploma in Franchise Management.
It will show you how to: - Decide whether your business should and could be franchised - Understand the franchisor/franchisee relationship - Structure the business so it works for both franchisor and franchisee - Prove the concept with pilot operations - Market your franchise and recruit franchisees - Motivate franchisees and monitor their performance - Franchise your business internationally - Prepare your network for sale - or buy an existing franchised network
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THQ Fast Food Empire Simulations for Windows for 16 and Up
THQ Fast Food Empire for Windows for Age - 16 and Up (Catalog Category: PC Games / Simulations)
An extreme makeover for fast food management!
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Reward yourself with a fresh new approach to the fast food industry. Dominate the fast food industry city by city, using gorgeous franchise staff as your secret weapon. Discover a whole new dimension to fast food management as you build your own fast food empire.
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- A selection of heart-throbbing beauties from all over the world for you to recruit.
- There are endless ways to win. Thrash your competitors however you like, only just..WIN!
- Addicting min-games that you might want to put your business at risk just to play again.
- Now what would you do to give your business a boost if you had the Mafia at your finger tips..??
- Just a shoe right? Think again! Your franchise girl's clothing may be the key to billions or bankruptcy!
Windows Requirements
- Windows Me, 2000, XP
- 800 MHz or faster processor
- 1 GB of RAM or more
- 1 GB of free Hard Drive space or more
- DirectX 9.0 compatible Video Card
- Video Card must have 64 MB or more memory and one of these T&L capable chipsets: ATI Radeon 8500 or greater; GeForce 2 MX440 or greater
- DirectX 9.0 compatible Sound Card
- 8X CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
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Young Gun: 25-year-old Opens 10 Red Mango's In Under Three Years
It only took Samantha Goldsmith less than three years to open 10 Red Mango locations on her native Long Island. That makes her the system's youngest franchisee, largest multi-unit owner, and Long Island the single largest market for the brand. That's quite an accomplishment, even for a veteran franchisee. But Goldsmith is just 25 and has been in the business for only three years.
Her list of accomplishments, punched up by multiple Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare accounts, is the reason Goldsmith is something of a rock star at her store grand openings and the recipient of Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine's 2103 MVP Influencer Award. "It's great when young people come to the manager and ask if I'm there because they want to talk to me about being successful in business," she says.
Goldsmith spent her childhood on her father Harvey's heels. "I've wanted to be like my dad since I was five years old. He had an inventory business, renting out scanners to companies to use when taking inventory. I'd sit in the back of his office, making boxes and watching him do business," she says. At 16, she started work at Bed Bath & Beyond and was promoted twice in less than four years. "I liked managing and being part of a team," she says. But she couldn't see spending four years in college when she already knew what she wanted to do.
When she and her father came across Red Mango at a franchise expo, she liked the brand's "delicious and healthy" products. She approached the franchisor, who didn't seem taken aback by her age, she says, and opened her first unit early in the chain's national development.
"Red Mango appealed to me because I'm health-conscious like most people between 24 and 50. We're all concerned about calories, fat-free, and gluten-free. I thought our products would be popular and the stores would thrive right now," she says.
Her instincts were good, and Goldsmith has kept up a rapid growth rate, opening her other nine stores within three years. Her husband, Tim Gatto, is COO, and the pair closely mentor their 10 store managers.
Red Mango founder Dan Kim has described Goldsmith as an "inspiration." But her father is her biggest fan. Says Goldsmith, "He tells me how proud he is all the time."
Name: Samantha Goldsmith
Title: Founder
Company: Goldsmith Companies
No. of units: Red Mango, 10
Age: 25
Family: Husband Tim Gatto, company operations manager, and three stepchildren
Years in franchising: 3
Years in current position: 3
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The Franchise MBA: Mastering the 4 Essential Steps to Owning a Franchise
This comprehensively researched and deftly written franchise guide brings together experience and fact to give you the tools you need to understand which franchise is right for you. With insights from respected franchise leaders and a thorough understand of franchising, this book will help you understand and master the 4 Critical Steps to finding the Ideal Franchise: 1. The Introspective Self 2. The Franchisor 3. The Franchisees 4. The Legal and Financial
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Maximize Your E-Sources: Using Social Media As A Recruiting Tool
"Google," which became a verb in June 2006, is among many new verbs that have transformed the way we speak--and interact. Today we "friend" someone on Facebook, "bookmark" a website, "blog" an article, and "text" from our phones. Social media is rewriting how we connect with each other--and it's happening in every aspect of our lives. Twitter transformed how we get our news; Groupon revolutionized how we consume; Foursquare revamped how we "check-in"; and now, social media is redefining how we hire.
More than a decade ago, HR saw the emergence of job boards that allowed employers to reach an expanded talent pool with the click of a few buttons. Since that time, virtual hiring portals have dominated candidate sourcing. As social media infiltrates everyday life, franchisees must leverage these resources to connect with both their consumers and candidates.
Today, one of every six Americans uses social media. Of those, 59 percent interact with businesses through social media sites, with one in four checking in more than once a week (Cone Communications). And consumers who "like" your business give your brand and your bottom line a "thumbs-up." In fact, 61 percent of Facebook users who have "liked" a brand note that they are more likely to purchase from that brand (AllFacebook).
The business case is clear. It is time to seize the day and capitalize on online influence by integrating social media into hiring processes. For franchise businesses with a following, it is the obvious next step, especially for the fast casual segment, where social media campaigns have already shown marketing success.
Social media is already revolutionizing the restaurant industry. The NRA's 2012 Restaurant Industry Forecast found that more than 80 percent of restaurant operators plan to increase their social media marketing efforts. Over the next two years, more than half plan to add online review sites, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs into their marketing mix.
Further, according to the 2012 HR Toolbox survey, HR professionals spend 7.62 hours each week on social media sites. What are they doing? They are using online profiles (originally reserved for connecting socially) to hunt for jobs, build credibility and a personal brand, and network professionally.
Social media is a powerful recruiting and sourcing tool for franchisees. Social media takes the old networking adage of hiring based on "who you know" to a new level. The ability of employers to tap into these social networks is quickly becoming an indispensable resource: hiring managers can reach their target demographic more easily, employ a proactive sourcing plan, and drastically reduce costs.
Most social media sites allow businesses to Post, Tweet, Pin, and Message open positions free--unlike job boards, which can cost employers hundreds of dollars for each position.
BranchOut, the largest professional network on Facebook, went mobile in the fall of 2011. The program lets members use their Facebook network to look for jobs, source leads, recruit candidates, and cultivate professional contacts.
Three months earlier, LinkedIn launched an "Apply with LinkedIn" button, allowing candidates to submit resumes directly from their profile with just a click. Sophisticated talent management systems can pool social media sourcings and quickly filter through applications to identify the best candidates.
Developments such as these continue to drive innovation in franchising. The future of franchise hiring and repeat customers is a two-way conversation. If you're not speaking the lingo, you'll be left behind.
Look at what is working for others who are being successful, and then set goals for where your franchise is headed. Take into consideration industry innovations, relevant social media outlets, culture and brand messages, and the development plan for your franchise business. Open a conversation with your management team and team leaders about where you want to go and what you need to get there. Then empower your team to lead the charge.
Nate DaPore is President and CEO of PeopleMatter. He is passionate about providing team members, including his own, with a rewarding workplace experience that values creativity and innovation. Contact him at 877-230-4088 or info@peoplematter.com.
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Transworld Business Advisors Launches New Location in Troy
Transworld Business Advisors, a unique business concept that provides services for business brokerage, franchise consulting, and franchise development, announces a new location in Troy, under the ownership of local resident Jeffrey Sak.
Transworld Business Advisors is essentially three complementary businesses rolled into one: business brokerage, franchise consulting, and franchise development. The brokerage side successfully puts buyers and sellers of businesses together; the franchise consulting side gives entrepreneurs access to more than 200 pre-screened franchises and the franchise development service assists people in growing their businesses through franchising.
“Discovering Transworld Business Advisors came at a perfect time in my life because I was looking to start my own business and the operation of Transworld is very well suited to my background and skill set,” said Sak. “I launched the business in August and am already looking to hire sales associates to assist in growing the business.”
Prior to owning a Transworld Business Advisors agency, Sak spent nearly 15 years specializing in international tax consulting at two of the Big Four public accounting firms as a CPA and tax attorney.
Transworld Business Advisors is a joint venture between United Franchise Group, (UFG) an industry leader in the development of successful franchise systems with over 1400 franchisees in 50 countries, and Transworld Business Brokers, one of the nation’s largest business brokerage companies handling business sales and mergers and acquisitions.
For more information on the new Transworld Business Advisors in Troy, contact Sak at 248-519-2305. For information on how you can own a Transworld Business Advisors franchise, call 800-205-7605 or go to www.transworld-info.com.
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Tomb Raider
After a brutal storm destroys the boat she was travelling on, a frightened young woman is left washed ashore on an unknown beach. On her own but not alone she has only one goal, to survive. Here begins the first adventure for a young and inexperienced Lara Croft in a story which charts the journey of an ordinary woman who finds out just how far she must go in order to stay alive.
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