Franchise Educational Information

The Franchise Doctor is dedicated to helping you learn enough about franchising to measure its suitability for your needs. To achieve that goal, we provide the following tools:

"The Franchise Doctor's Monthly Newsletter." Provided free to those who register with

us their name, contact information and E-Mail address. It offers tips, ideas, and pointers based on our daily readings and conversations with buyers and franchisors.

"The Franchise Doctor's Blog." Another new twist on the internet is a blog (or web log) where we post short 3 or 4 paragraph articles about franchising. Now you can read our franchise blog without registering your email address. By learning how to receive notices about new posts, you'll get notified every time you log onto the internet with a blog-enabled browser. Netscape & Firefox are now offering this capability, as is My.Yahoo.com. Our RSS feed can be found at: http://franchisedoctor.blogspot.com/atom.xml

"Restricted Access Marketing Area" Once you register your E-Mail address, Name, Mailing address, and Daytime phone number, you'll be given a list of links to allow you to review extensive marketing materials for some of our favorite franchisors.

"Franchise Review" The Franchise Doctor will produce a review of a franchise that you specify. Our focus will be on specific benefits and shortcomings of the opportunity compared to other ventures in the same industry or price range. If available, industry financial ratios will be provided so that you may see how your projections compare with industry norms. We will also provide you with a list of questions that you should be sure to have answered by the franchisor before proceeding to a purchase. Click here to access this data: Franchise Reviews.

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