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Do Franchises Really Have A Low Failure Rate?

                  

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As a franchise consultant, I get to do seminars on franchise ownership. I always tell my audience that the only meaningful statistic on franchise success is their own experience with franchise ownership. Unfortunately, statistics like that requires one to take some risk, and actually invest and open up a franchise.

Statistics can be promoted and shuffled about in many different ways. Just what are the true franchise success rates, and do they really matter?

Read all about it over at The OPEN Forum by American Express

Personal Training Institute Introduces a Guarantee

The guarantee provides that if clients using the PTI fitness program do not achieve mutually-agreed fitness goals within a 6-month period, which may include weight loss, muscle mass or other agreed physical health improvements, they can get free personal fitness training sessions and nutrition consultation for the next 6-month period.

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Will The Franchise Industry Take Off?

                                                                               

“It doesn’t matter whether the Dow is 5,000 or 50,000,” Guy Kawasaki says. “If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.”

In a way, he is right. Sometimes, our circumstances force us to act sooner, rather than later.

Guy, a venture capitalist, recently spent some time on The Navy's USS John C. Stennis, and wrote about it, here. Wild stuff, folks!

Anyway, are going to look into investing in a franchise of your own? In this economy? Maybe you should!  Read this article over at the American Express Open Forum.

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