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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

No matter how good your business is not everyone will see the appeal of your product or service. Sometimes this will lead to bad reviews in the press or online. This was recently discussed on the UK Business Forums when Claire asked about dealing with bad press. Her business is The Crystal Chick and they [...]

Business 2.0 is reporting about JetPens a business run by three students at Stanford University. The students, Lily Kim, Shu Lindsey, and Adrian Mak had trouble finding the precision pens they liked to use, the Japanese-made ultra thin ones with tips half the width of the average ball point. Unable to find what they wanted [...]

Wannabes obsess about the big idea. Entrepreneurs obsess about great implementation. Wannabes focus on positive thinking. Entrepreneurs plan for multiple contingencies. Wannabes want to get on TV and get “famous.” Entrepreneurs want to build their business. Wannabes seek a perfect plan. Entrepreneurs execute and adjust the plan later. Wannabes wait for their lucky break. Entrepreneurs [...]

The marketing expert Seth Godin recently wrote about Triangulation on his blog and how it applies to marketing. He makes the very simple point: There are two wines for sale at dinner: $9 a bottle or $16 a bottle. Which one do you order? Now, imagine that there are three, and the third is $34. [...]

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20,000 UK Start-up businesses fail every year… The Startups Awards celebrate the success of those who make it! 400,000 new businesses start up each year in the UK. Yet as many as one fifth of these cease trading within their first 12 months.* It is vital to recognise the successful new companies who continue to [...]

There’s surely got to be some amazing business opportunities to be explored alongside the Fab@Home project. Fab@Home is a website dedicated to making and using fabbers – machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. The look something like this: Fabbers (a.k.a 3D Printers or rapid prototyping machines) are a relatively new form of [...]