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Are You Ready To Buy A Franchise?

Are You Ready To Buy A Franchise?

How many times have you gone into work on Monday morning dreading the week ahead of you? Meetings, appointments, deadlines, and bosses are just some of the challenges in your everyday work life.

Are you tired of the bickering that occurs or small matters that take up much of your time to align your team? There are numerous pressures that hit us throughout our work life and finding balance and an opening for happiness in our careers is very important.

Many small business owners experienced similar challenges in their workplace, but they took action to define their independence and financial security. The irony is that those challenges at work don’t always go away when you have your own business, staff, and your financial pressures. But they are often more manageable when the business is yours.

A number of considerations for purchasing a franchise:
Define what you enjoy – what is your hobby, interests, where and how do you spend your time away from your career. Look inside yourself to see the possibilities of creating a career out of your passions – the benefits may define motivation and success for you.

What is the purpose – it is easy to say independence or financial security but that is not inherently wonderful in own a franchise. Know that the grass is NOT always greener on the business ownership side and address your own challenges before putting your family, life and finances on the table.

Financial needs – assess your access to funds to invest and your goals for where you want to be in 5 years, 10 years, etc. It will be easy to get caught up in the short-term excitement of owning your business opportunity, the key is choosing the right franchise business as a vehicle to achieve your goals.

Franchise businesses are a great opportunity to establish your independence and secure financial goals. These achievements don’t always come easy and they must begin with your understanding of your strengths and purpose in life.





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John Power
John Power, founder of Biltmore Franchise Consulting, has extensive experience developing and marketing franchises and business opportunities. He has been in and around franchising for over twenty years. From 1980 through 1990 he conceptualized, organized, and developed the American Video Association. He grew AVA to 2,000 national members, before selling the company it 1990. It was later merged into another home video marketing company. From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a contract marketing and human resources consultant to several local and national companies. In 2005 Mr. Power began working as a franchise development consultant on a full-time basis. Since that time he has helped more than three dozen companies initiate and develop their franchising program. He notes that there are many companies interested in developing a franchise program, and who need his specialized assistance. Mr. Power is a “hands-on” franchise consultant. He said, “I am the ‘nuts and bolts’ person who tends to the details for my clients.” Mr. Power holds a B.S. degree with a major in Marketing. See: www.biltmorefranchise.com You may contact Mr. Power at: jpower@biltmorefranchise.co - Visit John Power's Website

Anne Barr
Anne Barr has over 26 years experience in sales and marketing, six years as a franchisee. She has assisted over 367 business owners and purchasers to achieve their goals in career change, transition and exit strategy. She holds the designation of Certified Franchise Executive from the International Franchise Association, Certified Business Intermediary from the International Business Brokers Association and Board Certified Broker from the Texas Association of Business Brokers. Anne is active in professional organizations, networking groups and volunteers for non-profit entities. As owner/operator of four successful businesses, Anne has proven people skills and enjoys helping clients find the right "fit" in business ownership. Visit www.FranchiseOpportunitySpecialist.com for more information about me and my company. - Visit Anne Barr's Website

John Brennan
John Brennan Ed.D. Dr. Brennan is President of Interpersonal Development, LLC, a training and development firm. Interpersonal Development has provided sales training and coaching to more than 3,000 sales reps from over 100 companies. A native of Australia, Dr. Brennan received his doctorate from the University of Rochester. His dissertation researched the effectiveness of Behavioral Modeling Technology in training people in interpersonal skills. While he has spent most of his career designing or delivering training, he was also a Vice-President of Sales of a training and development franchise with operations in 25 markets. Dr. Brennan has designed and delivered sales training in North America, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. He has been a guest speaker at numerous national and regional professional conferences. When Microsoft wanted Best Practices articles on sales for their web site, they called Dr. Brennan. The results are at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011387391033.aspx His firm’s clients have included Volvo, The Prudential, Merrill Lynch, Eastman Kodak, Gannett, Equifax Europe, the Economist Group and countless small businesses. - Visit John Brennan's Website

Jay Kubassek
(Jay's Full Bio: EvanCarmichael.com/jaykubassek)  In five years, Canadian-born entrepreneur Jay Kubassek went from selling mufflers at a Midas franchise to revolutionizing Internet marketing with the 2004 launch of CarbonCopyPRO, a online marketing education company, now worth over $20 million with customers in over 160 countries.

 

As an independent film producer, his upstart film fund Aliquot Films is currently producing a films with Spike Lee and Abel Fererra (starring Ethan Hawke and Dennis Hopper.)

 

Jay's entrepreneurial spirit is irrepressible. He’s the owner of five companies, a professional speaker and trainer, international real estate developer/investor, extreme sport enthusiast and emerging philanthropist. 

 

Jay resides in NYC with his wife Jamie, son Milo and dog Cooper.  Visit Jay's official website: www.JayKubassek.com - Visit Jay Kubassek's Website


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(Visit Tom's Website) The Business Market is an online business-for-sale marketplace. If you are looking to buy a business, franchise or opportunity, you can search our database for free to find the perfect business to buy. Or if you are looking to sell a business, franchise or opportunity, you can list it for sale on The Business Market risk-free. There are no setup fees, no monthly fees, and you only pay a small fee (less than a dollar) for each unique buyer that views your listing.

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