{"id":112,"date":"2011-04-18T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-04-18T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:47:14","slug":"franchising-look-before-you-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Franchising: Look Before You Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franchises are one path for the new entrepreneur to take, and are less risky than starting a business from scratch.<br \/>\nThere is a huge variety of franchises available, from Subway or McDonalds to icecream to home healthcare.<br \/>\nAgain, before investing, you need to:<br \/>\n1. Evaluate your own business skills and your risk tolerance&#8230;.franchises are less risky, at least the better known ones. Take our free Entrepreneurial Questionnaire that&#8217;s in our downloads.<br \/>\n2. Research the franchisor&#8217;s offering compared to others available to you&#8230;.better, worse, same? If it&#8217;s about the same, why do you want this franchise rather than another one?<br \/>\n3. What kind of prepurchase support does the franchisor offer, e.g., site selection, territory analysis? How good is the support? What do other franchisees say?<br \/>\n3. What&#8217;s your earning capability under the franchise? This is hard to find out in franchise disclosure documents, for legal reasons. Talk to other franchisees.<br \/>\nThese are just some of the key concerns&#8230;.go spend $29 on our franchise course (S01) before you spend thousands&#8230;.you&#8217;ll be glad you did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franchises are one path for the new entrepreneur to take, and are less risky than starting a business from scratch. There is a huge variety of franchises available, from Subway or McDonalds to icecream to home healthcare. Again, before investing, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}