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Commercial Cleaning Franchise Complaints
Commercial Cleaning Franchise Complaints
The commercial cleaning gold rush is on, but are franchisees getting the gold mine… or the shaft?
Commercial cleaning is being hyped as the hot, recession-defiant franchise opportunity
The February, 2010 Entrepreneur Magazine states “of the 10 fastest-growing franchises measured by Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500, six were commercial cleaning companies. That’s downright recession-defiant.” In [...]
Oxi Fresh Supports Franchisees With Central Scheduling Center
Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning books jobs, maintains schedules for fast-growing franchise chain.
Owning a franchise should give the small business owner an unfair advantage over the competition. After all, that’s why they pay a franchise fee and agree to follow the franchisor’s guidelines, right?
Oxi Fresh President Jonathan Barnett, MBA agrees.
Since first launching the fast-growing Oxi Fresh [...]
Why Franchises Fail & What to Do About It Part 2
Experts agree: franchise failure is often the result of improper screening and qualification of franchisee candidates.
In Why Franchises Fail & What to Do About It Part 1, I posted a disturbing ode to franchise failure I discovered on Twitter.
The author, a print shop franchise owner named Jenny, posted 5 total Tweets. In the first four [...]
Why Franchises Fail & What to Do About It Part 1
When a franchise location fails, everyone involved loses. Can most franchise failures be prevented?
Whether you are a franchisor, franchisee, future franchisor or franchisee, or service provider to ‘zors and ‘zees, it’s safe to assume that you want to succeed.
In order to understand and implement the principles of success in franchising, it’s essential to recognize the [...]
RICKY’S CANDY, CONES & CHAOS FRANCHISE
This post was originally published in July, 2009 on Franchise Pick, and was updated November 11, 2009.
Franchisee reports that one of the more colorful franchise concepts of recent years, Ricky’s Candy, Cones & Chaos, may have been more aptly named Ricky’s Chaos, Lawsuits & Bankruptcy.
We’ve been following and documenting the unfortunate decline of [...]
Creative Tutors
Home-based tutoring franchise for experienced educators.
Franchise Name: Creative Tutors
CEO/Founder: Jan Van Blarcum, CEO (Interview)
Website links: Creative Tutors, Timmy’s Tutor Blog
Comments: Creative Tutors FanWall
Corp. Name: Creative Tutors 4 Kids International, Inc.
Year Founded: 1999
Year Franchised: 2004
Number of units, company: 1
Number of units, franchised: 12
Initial investment: $30,000 – 80,000
Minimum Net worth: $150,000
Home-based Business?: YES
Priority Markets for Expansion: Alabama, [...]
