Take Your Time When Buying a Franchise Oklahoma City OK

Buying a franchise can be a very lucrative business venture, however, it can also be a complete disaster. Too many franchisees are making rushed decisions, or deciding to enter franchising for the wrong reasons. The following article from Blue MauMau urges potential franchisees to take their time when making the decision to pursue franchising, as well as when looking for the right franchise to buy.

I have been a franchisee for more than a decade. We don't make as much money as a lot of people in the community seem to think, but we do make more than 90% of the households in America. I read all the horror stories on Blue MauMau, and contrast how people are buying bogus franchises with how we got into our system.

People talk about dealing with sales people who want to sign them up for that deposit or franchise fee. People talk about how THEN they might work in a store "for a few days", or go to a training that takes a week or two.

And they think that a week or two will make them into business people???

What is really scary are the poor folks who decide to buy a franchise BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING LAID OFF. That is a TERRIBLE motivation because the fearful job-losing employee will want income IN A HURRY. Franchising has been around for decades, perhaps a century, and yet the job-loser will feel pressure to find the franchise and buy it in as little as a few weeks. No, no, no. It can take YEARS to find the right business opportunity.

About that salesperson and that fee: For contrast, in the McDonald's system you have to be approved as a Registered Applicant before you will be considered to buy a store, and you don't pay the fee UNTIL you buy a specific store. And to BECOME a Registered Applicant you have to first prove yourself to be operationally qualified.

You might work in the stores for a year, not a week. You go through four levels of courses and you don't just walk in and attend the course. You have to prove yourself operationally qualified and pass an assessment as to your operational knowledge, before even being allowed into the course. You can't just read manuals in your office or at home, you have to prove yourself in the restaurants. And this is BEFORE you are ALLOWED to pay a franchise fee to acquire a restaurant.

Contrary to sentiment from some of Blue MauMau's columnists and commentators, I am NOT a big fan of "due diligence" to the extent that it implies that if you just hire enough consultants, you can indeed walk right into a business that you knew nothing about 2 weeks ago, and the "diligence" will save you and make your success guaranteed.

Nope. People do come into McDonald's from outside but they gain their own knowledge of the industry before they buy a store. They don't throw it over a consultant's transom and ask if it is okay. And let's face it, most McDonald's franchisees came with prior McDonald's experience.

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