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Seven Sure Steps To Choosing A Franchise

Franchising is a wonderful way to go into business for yourself. So many things have already been established for your benefit: branding, marketing, processes, products, systems, etc. Building a business through franchising has been so successful that franchised businesses generate jobs for more than 18 million Americans and account for 9.5 percent of the private-sector economic output, according to a study released by the International Franchise Association Educational Foundation.

If you are convinced that you want to investigate franchising for your next career move, how do you go about finding just the right one? Here then is our recommended approach of determining what to look for in a franchise that will meet your needs, expectations and goals.

This post has been selected as one of the Top 50 Franchising Blog Posts of 2008. Learn more here.

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Speaking Roses

Speaking Roses invented a process that has revolutionized the floral and greeting card industries forever. They have created a method of transferring images and messages onto fresh-cut flowers without harming or shortening the life of the flowers, so you can imprint messages on the roses.

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Soda Can Advertising

A Ukrainian inventor, Johan De Broyer has conceived the idea for the ingenious new “Soda Seal” can which appears like a standard soda can. When the tab is turned the can becomes re-sealed with a water-tight and gas-tight seal, revealing full-color, high-resolution advertising messaging.

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Cheap Solar

Energy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Their Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost, high-efficiency system with an incredible projected energy pricing of 5 cents per kilowatt.

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5-star Hospital

Henry Ford Health System is taking unprecedented steps to change that, along with many other traditional hospital practices, in a $350-million community hospital and wellness complex opening in February on 160 scenic acres in West Bloomfield. Its multifaceted approach has attracted the attention of health care experts.

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Shirt History

Re-Shirt is an Austrian-based company that resells second-hand t-shirts. What sets them apart from other online boutiques is that every shirt comes with a personal story. Owners submit the unique history pertinent to the garment they donate—often the circumstances behind buying it.

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Urban Mining

A recent Reuters wire story describes the new trend of "urban mining" - of recovering gold, silver, copper, iridium and other precious metals from discarded cell phones and other consumer electronics. There are tens (or possibly even hundreds) of millions of cell phones taken out of service every year.

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Personalized Texting With TextHub

TextHub is a text messaging service that allows you to send personalized text messages to people online or via mobile phones. TextHub offers an all-in-one suite of tools in one easy to use account manager and makes it easy for any non-technical user to administer mass text messaging campaigns and scheduled alerts.

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10 Things To Take The Nervousness Out Of You

Inspired by Andrew Dlugan’s recent post “Stop Rehearsing! 3 Critical Things to Do Before Your Speech“, I will like to add to his list 7 more things you can do before your speech to take the nervousness out of you. First, let’s do a quick recap of his three excellent pointers.

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Franchisees- How To Develop An Effective Sales Plan

When you are starting a franchise business for the first time, you need to be aware in advance of the type of products and services you will be selling to consumers within a particular target market industry. While in saying this, it might seem obvious to you, but understanding what your business is providing is essential.

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Does Size Truly Matter

Sometimes size does matter. When talking about a piece of chocolate cake – bigger is always better. When evaluating new cell phones – smaller gets the nod. In franchising, there are some advantages to being part of a large franchise system and other advantages to joining a small system.

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How To Fix Low Ezine Newsletter Deliverability

If you publish your ezine through one of the emailing list services then you will also be provided with tracking stats for each issue. Are you happy with the open rate, or does it seem exceptionally low for each issue? It is equally important is that your subscribers receive it.

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How To Bounce Back When Your Mood Plummets

Life’s weather is but temporary. It’s the seasons that really matter. Finding balance in the storm. Life” - Anon. Do you find yourself spiraling downward when something happens that you find upsetting? Many people feel happy when something happens that they want or like and fell unhappy if something unwanted occurs.

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Top Ten Principles of Success

Success principles from interviews with highly successful people who have overcome obstacles to accomplish such feats at climbing Mt. Everest, winning a Grammy, etc. Regardless of your career or industry, when applied, these success principles can shorten your learning curve and be a catalyst for your success.

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How To Grow Your Business During Tough Economic Times

The first action you must take is to create a marketing plan. You must get clear on who is your best customers, where to find them, what problems you solve and why they should buy from you. This does not require a long document but clarity in thinking. All eleven actions are documented in 49 Marketing Secrets THAT WORK.

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