This is my first “to be continued” blog. I am in the process
of growing my empire using a tried and tested route to market…..Franchising.
Now, here's my issue, to date I have been to 3 different “free”
franchise showcases, and all of them say the same blurb,
Step One:- We will tell you if you can franchise and
in-return you pay us loads of money
Step Two:- We will then tell you what you need to do to get
to where you want to go, and in-return you will pay us even more loads of money
Step Three:- We will provide you with lots of already
written templates that you can tweak to suite your business, along with some
tried and tested but not unique marketing ideas and in-return you will give us loads
of money.
Step four: once you have sold a couple of franchises we will
take the credit for all the hard work you put in, and should you fail we will
take no responsibility what so ever, and you would have just lost loads of
money.
I’ll tell you what Mr Fee earning consultant, if you’re as
good as you say you are, then you do it for free and I guaranty to double what
you would have charged me by paying you commission for each franchise we sell? What do you mean no? are you not as good as
you say you are?
I’m now caught between a rock and a hard place; I know that
if I do pay the franchise consultant, I will never fully appreciate what they
are doing for me. If I don’t use the “expert” and go at it alone, I will find
it dam near on impossible to find an investor. 
