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- Calculating the potential profit of a franchise
- Advice on how to ascertain the profitabilty of a new franchise business, by Robin Every of Card Connection.
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- Buy a franchise: eco-friendly cleaning products/service
- Founder Julie Bishop tells BusinessWings about her business's ethos and how it makes it unique in its field.
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- Starting a small business in a recession
- Recession is looming, but that needn’t put you off starting a small business. Some businesses are recession-proof, recession-resistant or actually perform better during a downturn.
- See more in: recession, food, luxury goods, funeral parlours, healthcare, debt collection, solicitors, schools, maintenance, over-50s, franchises
- Choosing the right franchise for you
- A few basic pointers as to what you should think about when picking a franchise, by Simon Rickett, co-founder of UK Websaver and Activ Web Design.
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- Buying a franchise resale
- As well as the backing of an experienced operator, buying a franchise resale buys you a functioning business with customers in place.
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- How I bought a... children's sports coaching franchise
- Gareth Simpson was a good football coach when he joined Premier Sport in 2003; five years later and he's accomplished in starting a new business, too.
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- What it takes to… run a fitness club
- Griff Shortt at The énergie Group outlines the attributes required to succeed in the fitness club industry.
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- Buying a franchise start-up
- Advice on buying a franchise business from Mundays LLP.
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- Buy a franchise: children's sports coaching
- Whether you have a background in sport but not in starting up a business, or vice-versa, you can be a successful Premier Sport franchisee with the right guidance and attitude.
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- Raising finance to buy a franchise
- The good news is, it's easier to raise the funds to buy a franchise than it is to raise the capital to start or buy a small business.
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- Choosing the right franchise
- Only fools rush in, as they say. Brian McLelland advises against ploughing your savings into the first franchise that comes along.
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- From O2 to CO2
- Former O2 Manager trys his hand at health and fitness.
- See more in: Attiva, health clubs, fitness clubs, health, fitness, gym, leisure, franchises, buy a franchise, franchisees, news
- A golden business opportunity
- You’ll soon be able to ‘pimp up’ much more than people’s ‘rides’ thanks to a new venture courtesy of the ‘Ring Bling King’.
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- Original Video - automated DVD rental
- A franchise ideal for those without much time to spare, or those that would like to work from home.
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- Go Kart Party franchisee: Claire Perera
- Meeting plenty of fellow mothers and choosing her own hours, Claire Perera has found the ideal franchise opportunity for someone with children.
- See more in: Go-Karting, buy a franchise, franchises, franchisees, children's entertainment, interviews
- Starting a business consultancy – Helen Dowling
- She had a wealth of experience in the industry, so Helen Dowling was well placed to make build a business consultancy. Now, having established the business, she has big plans for the future.
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- Exceptional Thinking – niche marketing and business planning specialists
- You don't need a background in the field, but you will get to learn and make use of a number of different skills.
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- Fred Deluca
- One is a discredited way of transporting people from one side of the road to the other; the other is a fast-food franchise which now has more outlets than McDonalds. Which Subway did Fred Deluca mastermind?
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- How franchisees are selected
- It’s the classic vicious circle: you can’t get the job because you don’t have industry experience, and you can’t get the experience because you can’t get a job in the industry. Well guess what? Lack of experience is a GOOD thing in franchising…
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- Exit strategy: planning the future sale of your franchise
- The biggest challenge of any business is establishing it. But what might not have occurred to you is to plan for selling it - and that, too, is important.
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