CiNii Books - Franchising for free : owning your own business without investing your own cash

Specific strategies and tactics for financing a franchise are offered in this practical guide, which also shows how to make potential financing groups notice and respond to a proposal. A wide range of funding sources are described, including small business incentive companies, SBA, venture capitalists, and franchisors themselves, and detailed instructions are provided for creating effective proposals, marketing plans, personal resumes, and payback plans. The book also describes techniques for forecasting performance. Numerous sample documents, charts, graphs, and tables are included, each of which can be adapted to any franchise plan. An additional feature of this book is a directory of over 200 franchisors offering financial assistance, plus names, addresses, and telephone numbers of venture capital groups and companies and agencies involved in financing.

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Part 1 Tilling: The Financial Proposal
The Business and the Industry
The Marketing Plan
Forecasting Performance
Your Personal Credentials
The Payback Plan. Part 2 Sowing: Making the Rounds
Venture Capital. Part 3 Rooting: Leveraging the Franchisor
The Franchisors.

Volume: : pbk. ISBN 9780471625551

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Everything you need to know to get started. Franchising for Free Ifyou've been considering buying a franchise business, but you're notsure where to begin, this book will get you started. FranchisingFor Free shows you how to secure the vital start-up financingyou'll need to launch your franchise business and guides youthrough all the business, financial, and marketing aspects ofestablishing a successful franchise. Dennis L. Foster, afranchising expert and consultant, shows you how to get financingusing six proven methods, and offers a model plan for financing afranchise operation with little or no cash investment. Foster alsoshows you how to identify the right opportunity based on your ownpersonal credentials, the nature of the business, the market, andthe financial outlook. You also get-- * Tips on packaging, presenting, and circulating the finishedproposal * Lists of names and addresses of financial sources * Evaluations of the comparative advantages and drawbacks ofgetting funding from venture capitalists, SBA, SBIC, MESBIC, orindependent investors * A list of over 250 franchisors (with mailing addresses) who offerfinancial assistance * Work sheets, charts, and numerous examples and case histories.

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Introduction. TILLING. The Financial Proposal. The Business and the Industry. The Marketing Plan. Forecasting Performance. Your Personal Credentials. The Payback Plan. SOWING. Making the Rounds. Venture Capital. ROOTING. Leveraging the Franchisor. The Franchisors.

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