Posts from — July 2010

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The purchase of a courier franchise business is different from the purchase of an independent business. As a franchisee you will be party to a long-term relationship with your courier franchisor and you will agree to run the business in accordance with the franchisor’s system.

Buying courier franchises has the advantages of offering many benefits, such as:

A uniform, consistent business that often relies on a successful formula

Support from the franchisor in respect of knowledge relating to management, industry, marketing, advertising and buying power

Use of an already established business name and format and a reduction of business risk

It also involves the payment of fees and/or percentages of turnover to the franchisor, a reduction of independence through franchisor control of management, and there may be factors that adversely affect a franchisee that are outside its control, e.g. reputation risk.

Before buying into a franchise you will need to evaluate the franchise opportunity. You will need to assess the business itself, the franchisor, other franchisees within the system, financial matters, what your obligations and entitlements will be, and decide whether you want to be a franchisee. You will need to consider the advantages and disadvantages of a franchise business, and have read and understood the franchise agreement and disclosure document provided by the franchisor.

Make sure you obtain relevant information

The following are important factors you must give consideration to.

The information provided in the disclosure document. This will give a useful insight into the current status of the franchise system.  Read more... (509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

There are many ways to enjoy holiday. You can enjoy holiday as a group or by yourself. Eventually, enjoying your holiday as a group would be more fun, especially with people whom you loved most. But sometimes when everyone is busy with their own stuff and could not manage to accompany us for a short getaway vacation, you could always go for single holiday.

Singles holidays can be fun as well. You do not have to please anyone other than yourself and you have the opportunity to travel at your own terms and conditions. Yes, the holiday is yours alone. You decided the time at your own convenience, set your own budget, extend the stay if you wish to and you pick the travel destination according to your likes.

Imagine travelling around this wonderful world just by yourself. You have the chance to meet new people from different culture and ethnic and the chance to experience variety kind of specialty food. Make sure that you have planned it perfectly and you can find many references, story and tips from the internet or magazines. Just make sure that there is somebody that you can contact along the vacation, so other person knows about your latest location in case the unfortunate things happen.

For many of us small business owners, these past four years have been very hard. I have clients who were doing well nine years ago with a moderate amount of marketing, who over the past four years have seen those same marketing activities bring in fewer and fewer results. Many small business owners are currently faced with either going out of business or having to start again.

For me, I’m always up for a challenge! I’m always on the “see what else you can do” side of things. I feel a great deal of hope because of this past election and I think with renewed effort, and perhaps a few updated marketing strategies, we all can start rebuilding an economy where cash flows more freely.

If you find yourself with debts up to your ears and few reserves in your savings account but STILL adore what you do for a living and want to continue being self employed, here are seven suggestions for turning your situation around.

1. Now is a great time to reconnect with all the people you know through your business: this means your past, current and potential clients; your business colleagues; people you have met through networking; and perhaps even people you want meet and know. Send them a note that lets them know your doors are still open, that you feel hope for the future, and wish them the best in the coming time of reconstruction. The important thing is to communicate a sense of optimism and to offer a sincere wish that their business does well this coming year. Do it now, before the rush of business holiday cards gets started. Slip in a note about any current offerings for your business. If you have money, send a card. If you don’t, send an e-mail.  Read more... (843 words, estimated 3:22 mins reading time)

We limit ourselves when it comes to selling and business development. Here is another story from my networking association meeting the other night.  This article can help you or your people overcome self limiting sales beliefs and develop more business faster.

 

Back to the two ladies I talked about in my previous story, after I asked my favorite question.  “So ladies, what are your major issues as it relates to business development during this economic down time,” here is what happened.

I started giving my suggestions about what they could do about the low price issue (see previous story.)  As I’m talking, one lady is sort of listening as the other is checking out all the other people to see if there is someone better that she can network to.  As people walk by she actually starts talking to them as I’m talking and then comes back to my golden nuggets of selling wisdoms.  Obviously she wasn’t interested in hearing what she could to do about her issue.  The other paid a little closer attention, but then wanted to tell me why the customer was wrong.  Basically, without words, she told me she was going to continue doing it her way.