This article’s title is one of the sentences that always makes me shiver. Entrepreneurs investing all their time, energy and money in a business that has to work as a Franchise if they are going to create the pension value they need. It also makes me wonder if the time for Franchises is over. Not [...]

Rodrigo Moya emailed me a couple of days ago about Speaking Roses, who have developed a way to transfer images onto fresh-cut flowers without shortening the life of the flowers. They have this to say about themselves:

Speaking Roses created an idea over 7 years ago that would merge the flower and greeting card industries forever. [...]

If you want to work from home and fit your working life around your family instead of the other way round. A popular choice in recent years has been to start a home publishing business. Such businesses usually publish a local magazine or directory aimed at a specific niche.

While it’s possible to pursue such a [...]

The Cereal Bowl is a new franchise based in the USA. Founded in 2004 it is a new bread of cafe, one which gives the customer the ability to mix and match their own cereal. To me it sounds like the Subway of cereal. It was start by two guys who decided to turn their [...]

For most people, once they get a job, they see it as a long slog, going to work everyday to earn money, only to find they get a fairly poor pension when they retire. Usually this means that they sacrifice quality time each week working when they could be spending that time with their family [...]

Printing.com provides a printing service on a wide range of stationary. They have a range of franchisees across the country and one central state of the art production hub.
They offer four different franchise levels:

Bolt-on Franchise – where you add their branding and capability to an existing business.

Start a Store – where you start your own [...]

Along with a McDonald’s franchise, Domino’s Pizza is another franchise with a well known brand. Domino’s Pizza is world renown in pizza delivery and one of the most successful franchise businesses ever. They have more than 8,000 stores in over 50 countries.
Domino’s Pizza operates a turnkey scheme which means that all property identification, acquisition, planning, [...]

Franchising can be a great way to start out in business and where better to start than one of the most successful franchises ever, McDonald’s. After all one of the key benefits to buying a franchise is gaining a well know brand and that’s certainly something McDonald’s have!
McDonald’s is one of the few brands that [...]