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8 Questions to Ask When Choosing the Best Business Bank Account for Your Franchise

8 Questions to Ask When Choosing the Best Business Bank Account for Your Franchise

When you’re just starting out, hunting for the best business bank account can seem mystifying. While it’s tempting to simply use your own [...]

Ready to Invest in Your Future? 5 Reasons Why Investing in a Franchise Makes Solid...

Ready to Invest in Your Future? 5 Reasons Why Investing in a Franchise Makes Solid...

With more and more people in the UK choosing to start their own branch of an established company, the potential advantages of franchising are [...]

The Ins and Outs of Running a Children's Clothing Store Franchise

The Ins and Outs of Running a Children's Clothing Store Franchise

  The children’s clothes UK market has never been more buoyant or more lucrative, no matter whether your business is aimed at tiny [...]

The Pros and Cons of Running a Car Leasing Broker Franchise

The Pros and Cons of Running a Car Leasing Broker Franchise

Car leasing is becoming more popular than ever in the UK, as drivers recognise the benefits of low monthly payments and the chance to change [...]

What you need to know to start an optician franchise

What you need to know to start an optician franchise

If you're looking for business opportunities, you may want to consider the optical industry. There are plenty of profitable companies within [...]

How to start a beauty franchise

How to start a beauty franchise

Many of us in Britain are happy to part with much of our hard-earned cash in order to look and feel good. In fact, a survey commissioned by [...]

Personal benefits of franchising

Personal benefits of franchising

Like any business venture, buying a franchise and making it successful requires lots of hard work. From hiring and training staff to aligning [...]

5 steps to buy a franchise

5 steps to buy a franchise

Buying a franchise is a significant commitment and one that you should enter into well informed and aware of what will be expected of you. If [...]

What qualifications do you need to start a consulting business?

What qualifications do you need to start a consulting business?

In the UK, consultancy services are very much in demand. More and more people are looking to develop their skills, and consultancy franchises [...]

10 steps to open a pet business

10 steps to open a pet business

For some, owning and managing a pet store is a dream career. For some lucky franchisees, it's a reality. If you've always wanted to run a [...]

What qualifications do you need to run a home repair business?

What qualifications do you need to run a home repair business?

The cost of moving house is becoming increasingly expensive in the UK. In fact, the average deposit put down is now £33,127 (Halifax). [...]

What qualifications do you need to start an automotive business?

What qualifications do you need to start an automotive business?

  Are you a car lover? Do you love to drive, have a passion for the craftsmanship of cars and are curious about the engineering that goes [...]

What are the steps to start a daycare?

What are the steps to start a daycare?

  The Childcare Act came into force in September 2017, and now three and four-year-olds with working parents in England (there are [...]

How to find employees for your healthcare business

How to find employees for your healthcare business

With healthcare being a number one graduate destination, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the industry doesn’t have any recruitment [...]

How to become a sign maker

How to become a sign maker

Behind every business, marketing strategy and business plan is a sign maker. While one of the less well-documented sectors, the sign making [...]

How to become a wedding consultant

How to become a wedding consultant

  Working as a wedding consultant is a fantastic way to become part of a rewarding industry and to be your own boss. If you want to make [...]

What is a franchise broker?

What is a franchise broker?

If you’re considering buying a franchise or putting one up for sale, it’s important that you know all your options before you make any [...]

Guide to starting a beauty store business

Guide to starting a beauty store business

If you’re considering starting a new business, there are many exciting franchise opportunities in the beauty sector. Here, we take a look at [...]

A guide to recruiting staff for your franchise

A guide to recruiting staff for your franchise

When you run a franchise, your employees are the ones on the frontline, interacting with customers on a day-to-day basis. They're the [...]

Sources of business finance

Sources of business finance

Choosing to invest in a franchise is an exciting time. You've decided to become your own boss, and you've researched the franchise [...]

Managing your wellbeing as an entrepreneur

Managing your wellbeing as an entrepreneur

Franchise investment can be both a financially and personally rewarding journey, but there’s no doubt that it can also be equally [...]

Do you need experience to be a franchisee?

Do you need experience to be a franchisee?

It’s very common to hear about entrepreneurs that have walked away from a seemingly ideal franchise opportunity because they feel as though [...]

The franchise application process

The franchise application process

Franchising has become a popular career goal, and it’s easy to see why. Buying a franchise offers the unique opportunity to be your own boss [...]

Five things not to do when buying a franchise

Five things not to do when buying a franchise

Buying a franchise is a huge decision to make. Even though you’re investing in an established brand name and have the support of the [...]

What is a retail franchise?

What is a retail franchise?

Franchising is big business. There are currently around 48,600 franchisee-owned businesses in the UK which is an increase of 10 percent since [...]

Evaluating a franchise opportunity

Evaluating a franchise opportunity

The success of any franchise relies on having enthusiastic and driven franchisees on board. To guarantee that franchisees do their best to [...]

How to become a property agent

How to become a property agent

There are dozens of real estate franchising opportunities available to those considering starting their own property business. However, [...]

How to open a Jani King franchise

How to open a Jani King franchise

Cleaning franchise Jani-King was established way back in 1969. In 1992, it arrived in the UK. Fast forward over two decades, and Jani-King is [...]

Traits of an entrepreneur

Traits of an entrepreneur

If you’re wondering whether now is the time to become a franchisee, there are several things you need to consider. As a franchisee, you’ll [...]

How to find the right commercial property

How to find the right commercial property

Perhaps you’ve just bought a franchise that relies on commercial space from the outset. Or maybe you’ve operated your franchise unit from [...]