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Is It a Franchise or a Lease?

2014 was an exciting year for franchises from a legal point of view, filled with high-profile cases that hit the headlines.

The Top 6 Things That Might Kill Your Franchise

FranNet presents the top six things that will kill your franchise. It’s a helpful primer of what not to do once you’ve signed your franchise agreement, had the grand opening and begun on your entrepreneurial path.

Are You Aware of All the Costs of a Franchise?

Deciding which franchise business opportunities you should invest in requires a lot of research and serious thought. One of the most important areas of the research and decision making process is the financial arena.

Like Kids, the Child Education and Development Center Industries are Growing

If the New Year has brought you a sense of motivation to find a rewarding career, you may want to consider owning a child education franchise or development center.

The Best Franchises to Invest in Right Now

The core appeal of franchising, most would-be franchisees would agree, is that it remains a proven and substantive business formula for the distribution of products and services.

Can You Build a Franchise Business without Employees?

Employees are high on most lists of business owners’ concerns, whether they own a franchise business or some other kind of company. Look at all the issues that come with employees:

Understanding Franchise Royalty Fees

A franchise business opportunity will always involve upfront costs. Some will go to the franchisor and some will simply be the costs of opening a business—rent, wages, inventory, supplies, utilities, and so forth.

Franchises That Appeal to Millennials

The Baby Boomers have been the consumers to care about for a while now. But the Millennials are nearly as large a generation as the baby Boomers, and they are becoming a purchasing force to be reckoned with.

Location, Location, Location!

At the end of the day, FranNet wants our new franchisees to succeed well after signing a contract to represent a franchise brand. Blowing the whole opportunity with a bad location selection would be nothing less than a tragedy. Don’t let it happen to you.

How Franchises Use Habits

The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, reports on recent research on habits in humans. It turns out that the basal ganglia, a primitive part of the brain, controls habitual behavior.

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