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Tips and Traps When Buying a Franchise: Complete Revised and Updated

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Author: Mary E. Tomzack
Creator: Robert E. Bond
Publisher: Source Book Publications
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 reviews
Sales Rank: 352370

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.7

ISBN: 1887137122
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.8708
EAN: 9781887137126
ASIN: 1887137122

Publication Date: March 5, 1999
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Product Description
Franchises are today's hottest entrepreneurial opportunity - provided you know what you're doing. This issue-by-issue crash course shows franchisees how to ask the right questions, avoid the common pitfalls, and make an optimal purchase - from choosing a location and lining up a loan to navigating the legal mazes.



Customer Reviews:   Read 3 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Good structure and review of basics, but now out of date.   September 15, 2008
This book is well structured and well written but is now out of date. After going through some very useful basics on deciding whether franchising is right for you and how to approach franchising, it then focuses on how to read a UFOC. This document has now changed to the FDD, which has a slightly different format than the previous UFOC. The examples are also rather dated. In sum, a good book for its time but I have found up to date books on Franchising to be more useful.


5 out of 5 stars simply fantastic......   August 16, 2006
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

As prospective franchise purchasers, my wife and I highly recommend this book. It is well balanced, presenting the path from initial consideration, analyzing the data including the daunting UFOC, and a list of resources that are helpful. It is not biased towards the viewpoints of franchisers, which is one of the downfalls of the Dave Thomas book which is otherwise a good companion to this text.

It is simultaneously a good and quick read, but is also full of information. I hope that anyone interested in the franchise route will read this and learn from it.



5 out of 5 stars Much better than the other books on franchising   November 17, 2004
 9 out of 18 found this review helpful

I found this book very informative on the subject of franchising. It gives you a great deal of information to consider and look for. As for the questions it raises I went to the authors website and that helped somewhat but I still had questions that I needed to get answered so I found and expert to help me.

A little investigation, and Google, led me to George Knauf. I wanted to use everything available to me and the book was a good start, but don't dicsount the benefit of some good and experienced advice. The book was worth the investment and the advice was somehow free, how can you beat that?



5 out of 5 stars AMAZING!   November 12, 2002
 28 out of 31 found this review helpful

I started off with no knowledge of the franchising industry..until this book. Tips and Traps takes you through the whole franchise process. After devouring this book ( I am already on my fourth reading!), I have become a franchisee in an expanding food franchise! I would like to find Mary E Tomazack and shake her hand...she changed my life!


4 out of 5 stars Very informative on questions about Franchising   October 28, 1999
 4 out of 28 found this review helpful

Very informative and interesting on the Franchising Business

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