Investing in your own business can be one of the most critical decisions one will ever make. The challenges are enormous physically and emotionally. Even finalizing a decision to own ones own business is daunting in itself. Many budding entrepreneurs cop out early into the decision making process.
Usually individuals wanting to strike out on their own were never responsible overall for: sales, marketing, human resources, customer service, quality assurance, operations, legal compliance, accounting, and much more. When owning a business, including a franchise ALL of those roles will often be carried out on a daily basis.
In principle owning a franchise will reduce the risk of not having conducted many of those roles for those brave individuals who ultimately decide to become a franchisee. The foundation of business format franchising is that the franchisor has developed a system, which has been proven successful, which can be duplicated by others being franchisees.
When a business, whether it be associated with food, automobiles, building, or consulting (there are 75 franchise industries) decides to grow by franchising vs. a product or service distribution...