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franchisemanager — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:53 GMT

Is franchising successful considering the geographical barriers and population of adelaide in south australia?

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Sales Leadership: Stop Making Excuses, Engage Your Channels and Deliver Success

bobbrogan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:46:58 GMT

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arks1208 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:24:45 GMT

Recording calls to evaluate service

Michelle — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:35:15 GMT

If the franchisor records calls made to franchisees to determine the level of telephone service being received by their customers, is an amendment to the franchise agreement required?

Global regulations - who's the most highly regulated?

Horsey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:50:49 GMT

I'm intrigued to know, which country has the most stringent regulations regarding pre purchase franchise documentation and ongoing regulations.

Do many countries follow the US system? I'm not from the US and am vague on pre purchase requirments. Can anyone point me to a site or info which describes the process. I'm considering going international and currently operate a franchise in Australia. I have no clue about the UK either.

Any suggestions /info would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Horsey.

Looking for my own business.

toolbaree — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:02:54 GMT

Hi,

I am a Saudi citizen and i am looking for running my own business. I thought of # of ideas but i have not decieded on one yet. I am an expert auditor, so i am at the business services side where i have my MBA and other international designation like CIA, CMA. I am currnetly employed at the telecom industry and i am recieving an excellent salary but i am really looking for freedom. I also considered franshises outside my speciality where i thought of running kids clothering retail business and fast food bakeries and other similar stuff that i think will have a sucessful future in Saudi Arabia.

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Co-op Marketing Funds

jrschmidt — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:12:19 GMT

Hello everyone . . . I am looking for general benchmarking information about marketing funds and/or marketing co-ops (there are different terms utilized) on behalf of a QSR franchise that is expanding into the US. For example: Is 3% generally the maximum funding level recommended?; What is the maximum number for participation to manage the fund/board (5, 7, 11, etc.)?; Do the members have voting rights?; Does corporate always match a portion or all of the fund?; If so, does it have a cap? What do you think about paid members?; Does the fund pay for travel expenses for the members?; What do you see as the fundamental role of the board? Thank you . . .

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Company Disclosure Information - int. franchising

ventasclothes — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:48:42 GMT

Hi, I am in the early stages of looking into importing a franchise from Argentina to Australia.
However, they are very weary about releasing information to me at such an early stage.

To me this seems unprofessional and I feel that perhaps they are not quite ready to expand into larger markets.

My questions:
- What code would a franchisor in Argentina and a Franchisee in Australia be bound to?
- Are there any international codes/regulations which stipulate that a company has to disclose certain information to prospective franchisees.

If there are any spanish speakers who can also advise me of any specific terms in spanish for which I am referring to that would be excellent.

Thanks for any potential help

Franchise software platform

fiji69 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:58:34 GMT

is anyone out there familiar with SEP networks Netgen platform? We are considering using their system and i would like some feedback from any other users. The system allows the franchisee to access their own website to use an Ad Builder function set within franchisor parameters and a click to print function, make changes to their individual websites, again based within franchisor parameters and has a lead generator function that allows email campaigns to be designed for franchisee use.

Ice Cream Parlor Business

nwpr — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:00:34 GMT

I found a great website called turnkeyparlor.

They are not a franchise, but provide a business plan and e-mail question and answer support if you are looking to open an ice cream parlor.

I would prefer to not have to pay the franchise fees and be limited in my offering.

Any feedback?

Thanks in advance!

How to choose an ecommerce product?

ramukumar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:42:53 GMT

In the part I, I had discussed briefly about how most of the small businesses go about selecting a product, whereas a successful small businessmen would be careful and would evaluate the product based on various aspects listed below before making a choice.

I will relist all the important factors, which one should consider before buying an ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) or software for their company.

1. Ease of configuration

2. Ability to Scale

3. Useful latest features

4. Available marketing tools with the product

5. Ability to analyze data (analytics, not only google analytics!!)

6. Reports

7. Integration (with other modules, Like epos with near realtime online/offline synchronization of data and other packaged application )

8. Customer Service

9. Technical Support

10. Technical Implementation Aspects

11. Build vs Buy

Ease of Configuration-

It is very important that the product is configurable and suited for one’s current needs and future needs, Like some of the things one may want to determine that how easy it is to

· Add products, categories and catalogs. Can this be dynamically created using administrative tool and dynamically displayed on the user side? Can it support multiple images with different resolution to be displayed on the user side?

· Look and manage all the orders placed by the administrator? Before placing the order, does it check for inventories? Does it notify the administrators, if the inventories go below a threshold value? Can the administrator mix and match the shipment to the customer?

· Create new sales store and new warehouses for inventories? Can the store’s inventory be picked up from different warehouses?

· Define several types of prices for the same product like list price, default price, component price, sale price etc? Can the price be dynamically setup using a rules engine?

· Associate a product with host of features like size, color, height, width, UOM, density, length etc? Can the product be setup and shown on the user side on any of the feature mentioned above or any of your new custom features?

· Return an order, look at shopping list/wish list, browse through the items last visited, go to most popular products in store, discounted product or special product in store, look at promotional products, place a review on the product, recommend a product or provide a valuable feedback and look at the products which are most sought by the people who had brought the same product as the customer in past?

· Can I select or add a new payment processor easily? I may want to use PayPAL today but I may need GoogleCheck out tomorrow. How many Payment engines does the product support?

· Customize my shipment company or add a new shipping company? Can I integrate directly with ups, RoyalMail, USPS, Fedex etc?

Ability to Scale

As the company grows, eCommerce infrastructure should be able to grow with you, supporting more customers, products, and traffic as needed. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always occur, which is why scalability is such an important element in any ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) .

It is very important to know on what technology is the product built upon. Does the vendor have enough support or knowledge on the product?

This may sound like a mute point but all these factors do really matter. It may be easy for a vendor to use an opensource product and provide the required solution but most of the opensource solutions fail in the kind of support you get and to the kind of ownership you/vendor have on the product.

It has been my experience that even with the best of the open source products, when you look deep into the code, you realize that the pieces of code have been written by people who really don’t know what the other coders have been writing introducing lot of overheads in the code and a code which is in no way modular or object oriented, making it all the more difficult for any vendor company to provide support.

Important point is look for a company that treats your online store as an important long-term investment, and has a product with that track record. These priorities will keep you and your site up and running—whether your order volume is five a day or five thousand—without skipping a beat. Remember, an eCommerce company or product should support the total growth of your business, not limit it.

Useful latest features

Although this may not sound important or required but this does remain one of the most important criteria while selecting an online ecommerce solution or product.

The latest features provide means and ways to improve your marketability and thereby the sale of your product. To name a few,

· Products Last visited by the user

· Ability to provide reviews by the user

· Ability to list down the product rated higher by user community

· Create Composite product and offer discount for composite products

· Dynamic pricing of composite products. To price dynamically user created composite products

More current features product has, easier it is, for the merchant to rollout new marketing initiatives. Also it is very important that the product is designed and built in such a way that it is easier to add/remove features.

Available marketing tools with the product

Sooner or later you will want to provide returning customers with a special discount, or use a coupon as a promotional device. Does your ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) or solution allow for that contingency in your checkout? Can you easily generate creative marketing content and integrate it into the site’s infrastructure? Can you easily identify your targeted customers based on the data you have by analyzing the data in hand? and or does the system seem limiting?

Coupons and other promotions can be key conversion tools, so make sure your ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) allows for this kind of marketing flexibility. Remember, promotions and marketing tools can make a difference in the crowded online marketplace, and can help set you apart from others who have their online presence in the market.

Ability to analyze data

Once you have your ecommerce solution deployed, you will want to find ways and means to increase the sales of your product. You may want to look at your current customer base, understand their trends, their demographics, their preference, and the overall customer behavior. All these helps you to prepare your business better, find effective marketing tools and eventually get more sales done.

To effectively achieve this, you would need means to analyze your data. As a product selection criteria, it is very important that you specifically know that what are the different analytics, which are provided by the tool

Reports

Reports are important for the management as it helps them to see the overall picture of the order and sales in the organization. It is important to know what are the different reports supported by the ecommerce solution. I would recommend that one should list all of the reports required for the organization and try to ensure that those reports are covered or are generated by the ecommerce solution. It is also necessary to know how easily more reports can be added or generated by the system.

Other important aspect of reporting is the support of different formats. The most common formats are CVS (Microsoft Excel), PDF (Adobe) and Quickbooks.

Integration

Integration is one of the key non functional requirements; one should look at, before choosing ecommerce software (www.ritecart.co.uk). Some of the key questions would be how easy is it to integrate with third party software? Does the ecommerce provider have the pluggable modules provided like Epos (Online electronic Point Of Sale) and Accounting package?

Palindrome Software Labs (www.palindromesoftware.com) has been very successful in marketing and selling its RiteCart enterprise product, which has ecommerce, epos, accounting and other pluggable modules.

Major sales in the RiteCart enterprise have been the epos and ecommerce combination. RiteCart (www.ritecart.co.uk) has n tier architecture for its epos module. Epos module has online/offline synchronization with the order management, warehouse management and ecommerce module

As I said earlier, ecommerce solution should be the tool for business to enhance its marketability, sales and in no way should limit it.

Customer Service

Any online retailer will understand how important customer service is to maintaining the success of a business. In choosing an eCommerce package, as a consumer, customer support is all the more important. Make sure that eCommerce software provider does provide with the elements you need to keep an online business operating at its peak level at all times. Does the vendor offer notifications regarding product updates or enhancements, personalized service, and technical support? Is there an option for an online help with live chat and IP2IP calling (www.supportnow.biz)? Keep in mind that the eCommerce solution provider should offer the same individualized service that one would want to give to his customers.

Technical Support

In the same vein, one shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to get someone to aid you if there is a problem with your online store—so make sure the service providers have experienced, reliable technical support and are committed to fixing a coding error or bug quickly. Quality counts; be assured that your ecommerce service provider (www.palindromesoftware.com) has people behind and are equally committed to quality and the customer experience as you are.

Technical Implementation Aspects

This is one of the most neglected factors by the ecommerce customer community.

Remember, Ignorance is not always bliss. it is important to understand that the product development technology plays a vital role in defining product features, customization, support and ease of product usage.

It is fairly common these days to use a scripting language to build products because that is the easiest way to build a product for the product supplier!!

I encourage customers to ask some specific questions, to name a few

· How can I customize the product behavior? Does it use XML or Property files?

· How can I change my query? Can I change without looking into the code?

· How can I change the content?

· Can my Home page flash dynamically pick up product images, price and other details from my database

· What language is used for development for product? Scripting language like PHP and others are a huge no, no. Make sure that your product is built using a software language like Java or .NET (most preferred ones)

· Can I add more modules to my product? How simple is it? Is the development Object Oriented

Our product RiteCart (www.ritecart.co.uk) is built using robust MVC/Struts framework, which is modular, extensible and configurable. Technologies used in this product are Java, XML, BSH.

Build vs. Buy

Over the period of time, this has become one of my favorite customer questions. Build or Buy?

I usually answer this by asking a question- how much ROI do you expect out of your ecommerce investment and product?

Building is an expensive option (not from cost point of view but from ROI Point of view).

You can build your solution using one of these options

1. Build with a good reliable vendor onsite (with or without an open source solution)

2. Build with a good vendor offshore

3. Build with a small vendor onsite/offshore

4. Go for your own development with some open source tools

Point 1, 2 &3 are feasible but one should ask himself the following questions, is the cost feasible? Will the vendor understand all the functional needs of the ecommerce solution? How long has the vendor been in the ecommerce solution market? Will the solution be ever built? Will it work as per expectations? Can the software vendor be relied upon? How much time will it take? What impact does it have on my business if it is not delivered to my satisfaction?

Finally for option 4, if you decide to pursue an open-source application to manage your store, make sure to thoroughly research and examine your options. Is the project continuously updated, or has it been stagnant for a long time, with very few updates on the project and very little news as to where it is headed? Several open-source solutions are released every year. However, very few have the longevity that you will need to be used as a foundation for your online store. Examine the programmers behind it, and others who use the program.

Buying option is a much easier option. One can feel and see the solution. One can make sure that he has got everything in the product he needs. Also, he can be rest assured that the company has the required functional, technical and support expertise to support all of his needs.

Finally, look at the company that’s behind your eCommerce solution (www.ritecart.co.uk). What have they done in the past? Are they a growing enterprise, likely to continually make improvements to their firm, and pass on those benefits to you? When considering a package, make sure that the company you are dealing with is credible, with a solid reputation to back up any claims. See where your customer and technical support will come from. Is it in-house or out-sourced? Do they have a solid, supportive community in the form of a forum, blog, or network of satisfied eCommerce businesses (www.ritecart.co.uk)? Examine the philosophy behind the company. Ask for references or email others, who’ve used their services in the past, and see what they have to say about the different aspects of the company you may be working with. These are the people who are going to help you build your business and make it a success; so choose wisely.

Ritecart product (www.ritecart.co.uk) is sold in two flavors (Lite & enterprise). If you are looking for ecommerce software, Please request for a quotation from our Sales team.

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Author is working as a Senior Retail Analyst with Palindrome Software Labs (www.palindromesoftware.com).

How to choose an ecommerce product?

ramukumar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:41:54 GMT

What is ecommerce?

Ecommerce (www.ritecart.co.uk) can be described as a commerce conducted electronically. It is the whole process of being able to make a sale of the product over the World Wide Web.

Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses is referred to as Business-to-business or B2B. B2B can be open to all interested parties (e.g. commodity exchange) or limited to specific, pre-qualified participants (private electronic market).

Electronic commerce (www.ritecart.co.uk) is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of the business transactions.

How does one go about choosing an ecommerce product?

It is my observation that while selecting an ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) most of the customers seem to be asking themselves the following set of questions

· How will it appear on the customer side?

· Will it be an attractive website?

· Will it display all of my products?

· Can I use open source and do some developments specific to my requirement?

These questions are valid and are important but these questions should be asked only after the selection of product is done. It is very important for business, which are for a long haul to really look for ROI (Return of Investment) from their ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk).

Before selection of any product, it is very useful to list down why you need a product or software, in this case ecommerce software?

Some of the answers will be/can be

· Increase presence in Online market and thereby have more sales

· Introduce a new channel of business- Have a new online channel for selling goods

· Establish Brand name, making future rollout of products/commodities easier

· Simplify management of all sales and inventories

· Increase productivity by integrating both Online and Offline model

· Increase visibility of the entire business operations by integrating both online and offline models together

· Be competitive, Just because a neighbor doing it!!!

I like the last one, because that way, one doesn’t have to really think hard but to follow his neighbor!!

Anyways, once one has his reasons chalked out, he would have also realized that this is a true line of business and needs much more investigation, investment and business initiative to make it a real success.

Online business can be only successful as successful as the tool is (the ecommerce product). To draw a comparison, one may want to travel 80 miles in an hr and may be really trying hard but that ain’t be possible with a bullock cart or may be even with a horse wagon. One would atleast need a car to make that happen.

Coming back to success, success of the ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) would lie on how the product fares with all of the following aspects.

1. Ease of configuration

2. Ability to Scale

3. Useful latest features

4. Available marketing tools with the product

5. Ability to analyze data (analytics, not only google analytics!!)

6. Reports

7. Integration (with other modules, Like epos with near realtime online/offline synchronization of data and other packaged application )

8. Customer Service

9. Technical Support

10. Technical Implementation Aspects

11. Build vs Buy

Please keep watching for my second post on the same topic, where I will expand on each of above selection criteria’s. If you happen to take your decision before my next post, consider RiteCart ecommerce product (www.ritecart.co.uk) software marketed by Palindrome Software Labs Pvt Ltd (www.palindromesoftware.com).

How do I find suppliers?

GT Stu — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:06:53 GMT

I have some suppliers given to me by my franchisor and other franchisees but I have had diffculty locating ligitimate suppliers on the internet, they don't seem to advertise.

Is there an easier way to locate them or do I need to network and get introduced?

New China Regulations Interpretation

Mr. Carl E. Zwisler, III — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:56:00 GMT

A lawyer representing China's Ministery of Commerce told the audience at a franchising seminar in Beijing last week that MOFCOM is about to clarify several aspects of the Franchise Regulations. One clarification relates to how the 2 outlet, 1 year requirement can be met. MOFCOM is expected to release its interpretations within the next 2 weeks.

Tomorrow the American Bar Association will conduct a Teleseminar about Franchising Under the New China Franchise Regulations. It begins at 1pm eastern. The panel will discuss what they have learned about the 2 + 1 requirement and other issues.

Franchising In China: How to Do It Under the New Regulations

Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Duration: 90 Minutes - Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Central Time

Description:

On May 1, 2007, China adopted its long-awaited Franchise Regulations.

The regulations and related administration guidelines have clarified

many previously unsettled issues but have left others unresolved. This

program will provide insights into the regulatory process that produced

the regulations, assistance in interpreting them, and help determining

the cost of compliance. Practical advice based upon the panelists'

experience of the past year under the Regulations will also be provided.

Issues to be addressed will include:

* May foreign companies franchise directly into China?

* Must trademarks be registered before franchisors may begin

franchising in China?

* May foreign franchisors satisfy the "2 +1 Rule" through

franchise operations outside China?

* What types of registration other than franchise registration

must franchisors obtain before they may franchise?

* What disclosure standards should franchisors expect under the

regulations?

This program will prove valuable for companies and counselors involved

in international franchising and particularly for those considering the

prospect of franchising in the dynamic and ever-expanding Chinese

market. Panelists will include lawyers in China, Canada, and the U.S.

who regularly practice in this field as well as in-house counsel for a

company that has successfully deployed its franchise system in China.

Program Faculty

Michael K. Lindsey (Moderator), Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &

Walker LLP, Los Angeles, CA

Paul Jones, Jones & Co., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sherin Sakr, Associate Counsel, International, Kahala Corp., Scottsdale,

Richard L. Wageman, Of Counsel, DLA Piper UK LLP, Beijing, China

Carl E. Zwisler, Of Counsel, Haynes and Boone, Washington, DC

To register: go to http://www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t08fap1.html

Technology supplier

ithnan1 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:26:56 GMT

Technology supplier search engine Conjungo has been launched to help ease search times for companies looking for suppliers of technologies. Conjungo is the only place online where technology vendors can list their entire channel in an easily searchable format. This helps buyers find local or specialist resellers. http://www.conjungo.com

Franchise purchase start-ups in a Bear vs. Bull Market

L..A. Jones — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:04:54 GMT

For instance, right after 9-11 did franchise purchases by individuals go up or down? How about during the boom of the dot.com 90s?

Wondering if bad times actually increase the number of franchise purchases due to layoffs and reduced opportunities in the traditional workplace.

Global Franchise Marketing

Franchiseek.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:09:57 GMT

Dear Franchisors,

Franchiseek.com has just added a further 3 new country portals to its global franchise website: Saudi Arabia, Portugal and Germany.
Bring the total number of individual franchise portals to 23.

As part of our ongoing development, we are looking for news and articles from Franchisors to help populate our news and advice sections.
There are also opportunities available in our Ask the Experts section.

For more details, please visit www.franchiseek.com

hoping to start need help

kmichael — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:09:16 GMT

im a full time student that has just been granted a large amount of money around 70k for college from my grandparents however i want to invest it in a coffee franchise, first i would like to start a corporation if you will for me and my father to open different franchises under the same company how might i do this and if there are any coffee franchise owners out there i would love to talk to you thank you for any help

Outsourcing with Costa Rica's Call Center

RichardBlank — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:50:39 GMT

http://www.costaricascallcenter.com

Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art outsourcing company located in the Central American country of Costa Rica. Our focus is to personally offer key
telemarketing services to small and medium sized companies looking for a
proven method of expanding their business. Costa Rica’s Call Center gives any company a competitive advantage by providing our clients more than twice the number of highly trained and educated bilingual staff for the same price as they
would pay within their local area. In addition, Costa Rica’s Call Center stays focused on managing no more than a hundred seat call center, one campaign at a time, in order to properly control quality, performance and positive employee morale. Once capacity is reached, another call center will be created in order to keep our results and expectations consistently high. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica.

Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center, a division of Cheyenne Consultants, a company incorporated in Costa Rica. At the beginning of the decade, Mr. Blank relocated to Costa Rica to train over 500 employees for one of the larger call centers in Central America. By utilizing his motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, he has successfully prepared and managed some of the finest telemarketers in the country for the past seven years. In addition, Mr. Blank has earned the reputation of running a school for telemarketing and is often sought after for private training sessions and consultation. In anticipation of CAFTA, Mr. Blank became a strategic partner of the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce, Beverly Hills, California and Selway Global Communications, Tempe, Arizona to expand Costa Rica’s international telecommunications and business appeal. Mr. Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.

Technology Deployments USA, Canada, UK

Wachter — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:06:17 GMT

Since 1930 Wachter has delivered on time and within budget - Today we implement new voice, data or security solutions across thousands of locations – from traditional access control systems to the latest technology systems such as:

· IP-based & Analog Cameras,

· Remote Guarding Analytics and Monitoring

· Video Recorders (DVRs/NVRs),

· Structured Cable and Fiber Optic Infrastructures and Backbones

· VOIP Communications

· Access Control Systems and more.

Corporations today are implementing security solutions for non-traditional reasons, including minimizing the risk from employee and customer litigation. Wachter knows the demands of today's security and IT Professionals and understands the impact of converging networks. We partner with leading security equipment manufacturers to design, install and support a wide variety of building and mobile-based security and systems. I have attached some introductory information we provide deployment and support services including moves , adds and changes (MAC) to 30 of the Fortune 100 and many others. I hope we can meet in the near future to discuss how National footprint and trained professionals can support you goals.

Emerging Concepts and New Directions in Franchising

razzii — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:02:59 GMT

I was hoping to get some feedback and thoughts and opinions of emerging concepts and new directions in franchising.

I am currently a university student in the secondary research stage of this particular topic and would be most interested to read your views on this.

Thanks in advance,

Raewyn

Retail Clothing Franchises

JB — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:43:09 GMT

I am considering franchising my retail clothing business - Has anyone ever heard of other notable clothing franchises that have been successful ?

Best Casual Sandwich Franchise

Carlito — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:04:45 GMT

I know Subway is #1 franchise, has anyone had experience with Quiznos? I've had success with a Great Clips franchise and trying to figure out how best to expand. Would a fast food franchise be harder or easier? Thanks for any insights!

UPS

Dilon — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:57:44 GMT

What do you think about UPS franchise store? Any feedback will be appreciated.

Best Regards

Dilon

Malaysia franchise brokers

Wayne — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:30:01 GMT

To all:

I understand that Malaysia has a broker registration requirement, in order to sell franchises in Malaysia. My company has contacted a variety of potential brokers, but none of them are registered. If anyone could provide contact information for a registered broker who can sell franchises in Malaysia, for a franchisor based in North Amercia, I would be very appreciative. Thank you.

Franchising In The E U

lsand007 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:41:24 GMT

I have two questions. 1) Is it true that the E U has no blanket regs on disclosure or franchising as a specific business model, but each member country may have regulations, and 2) Malta has no country requirements or regulations on franchising.

Thanks.

Lee Sanders

Johnny Rockets

Australian Franchise coming to America

johnburns — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:38:30 GMT

Is any one able to point me in the right direction in Protecting trademarks in the USA at a reasonable price please?

Is there anyone that has experience in this area please?

Assistance with International Franchise Rollups

Len in PA — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:14:15 GMT

I'm looking for assistance on identifying, buying and managing multiple franchises in international markets. I would ideally like to be doing this with mulitple franchises in the same market, even the same part of a market. I understand there are companies that exist that manage this process. I have not been able to figure out who those are to this point and am looking for additonal information. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

World Wide Franchise Tyson Sports

tysonsports — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:30:34 GMT

Grand Master Lyons former 5 Time World Martial Arts Champion will be franchising Tyson Sports Martial Arts & After School Program World Wide, learn how to grow your Tyson Sports Franchise into a $1 - million dollar a year business. Master Lyons also ownes a Sports, Trophy/Medal & Martial Arts supply business. Jimmy Lyons owner of Tyson Sports is based out of Orlando, Florida. Good Friends of Jimmy Lyons, Super Star Chuck Norris and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are avid fans and good of what Mr. Lyons is doing with his after school programs.
For more information contact Jimmy Lyons at tysonsports@yahoo.com.

Unique advertising and marketing opportunity FREE to Franchisors!

svet — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:07:48 GMT

Dear Franchisors!

I would like to discuss with you unique advertising and marketing opportunity FREE to Franchisors through our social networking site. Alansis Media as a marketing arm has an exclusive rights to represent PerfSpot.com globally. I have attached some additional information for you to better demonstrate what PerfSpot.com has to offer to the International Franchise Community. PerfSpot.com will promote your products and services through brand awareness, product promotion directing interesting consumers to your franchises demographically, and redirecting interested consumer to your websites or sales professionals!

Did you know that...?

· 38 percent of all online advertising dollars today go towards branding efforts?

· 67 percent of all U.S. households are on broadband as of year-end 2006, and over 80% of internet users regularly watch video content online today?

· Broadband video allows us to reach our audience with the sight, sound, motion and emotion of television, but with better measurement, more granular targeting and opportunities for interaction and viral sharing?

PERFSPOT.com is one of the internet’s premiere online portals for engaging original content and social networking. Due to the varied nature of the media that is uploaded and viewed, the site draws visitors of numerous marketing demographics – from young to old, with multi-faceted interests. PERFSPOT.com offers various types of potential avenues for our clients to market their brands to a receptive, enthusiastic audience for FREE:

Rich media block throughout the site – This is an incredible opportunity for specific product branding. An active Flash video will stream that is always on the right of the main pages in a specific category. Because the pages update as site users navigate, this allows for multiple rich media videos or animated logo’s to appear each time a new page is selected.

Sponsor Link on PerfSpot.com Newsletter - Upon creating a profile on PerfSpot.com we offer members the opportunity to opt-in for PerfSpot.com newsletters, updates and marketing offers. We are offering advertisers the opportunity to sponsor the newsletter with a link to their site.

PERFSPOT.com offers a unique approach to building brand awareness without bombarding the visitor with unwanted ads and pop-ups. The audience is engaged and interested in content sponsors and videos, delivering measurable results to our clients!

Please let me know when your schedule allows for a conference call to discuss FREE advertising and marketing opportunities through PerfSpot.com. Thank you again for your precious time!

Kind regards,

Svetlana

Svetlana Toun
SVP – International Strategic Alliances
www.alansismedia.com
PH: 866-618-1950 x 5395
FAX: 480-452-0247
stoun@alansismedia.com