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The People's Franchise
by John Milton Fogg

Today, many experts say the franchising industry is responsible for more 50 percent of all the goods and services we buy and sell at retail. In the United States only it's turnover is One Trillion Dollars worth! Not bad for what just a few years ago was labeled "a scam and a scheme." Let's take a closer look at franchising.

Franchising truly was a revolutionary business concept - and it still is. Take a look at your alternative: 80 percent of all small business fail in their first year. 80 percent of those that make it don't survive to see year five - and of those that do, even fewer will last another five. Think about it: how many companies do you do business with that have been around 10 years or more? Not very many.

Franchising is a way for the small business entrepreneur to boost the odds of success. A franchise takes the guesswork out of building a business from scratch. The franchise company creates a "turn-key opportunity" - a ready-made business, complete with products or services, training, vendors, policies and procedures. Virtually anyone with the desire and start-up capital can climb into this vehicle, turn the key, and drive off down the highway of entrepreneurial success.

It's truly brilliant. You don't need to know all there is to know about building a franchise to own one. The franchise company has done all that work for you. You simply pay your franchise fee, build or rent your location and furnish it with the equipment the company has already designed and successfully tested for you, hire your people, and then pay the company a percentage of your sales and profits.

Question: How well do franchisees do?
According to its critics, the truth is about one third of all franchises fail. Another third break even, and only one third make a profit. In fact some franchise veterans say you can't make money in franchising today unless you own five individual franchises units or more! Still, that's a much better average than the 80/20 failure/success rate of conventional small businesses.

Question: How much does it cost to own a franchise, today?
Ahh, there's the rub. Franchises fees range between $1,000 and $500,000. The average fee today comes in at around a cool $100 grand. You can get a Molly Maid or a Thrifty Car Rental franchise for a fee of $17,500. Sir Speedy is $25,000. And the big guys, like McDonalds..., well even if you could find one - Forget It! It's millions....

The really bad news is that's only the fee. You've still got to pay for the building, equipment, initial inventory, etc. - all of which can run into the millions or more. The average investment is $250,000! Not quite what the average person can afford. PLUS, most franchise company's take a percentage of your sales- not just profits, SALES- as their royalty!

It's tough to start a franchise today. It's not like it was back when the industry was young and unknown. As in real estate, the stock market or most other opportunities, the real money is made by those who get in early. There's a higher risk, and a higher reward. Once anything is a sure thing, it seems everybody's doing it.

Today franchises are proven profit centers. That's one reason why they're so expensive. You pay for having less risk than a conventional business start-up - and you pay for being a Johnny-come-lately, as well.

But there is a way to have the low-to-no-risk benefits of a proven, duplicatable business system like franchising, and still enjoy the rich rewards of a ground floor opportunity.

Frankly, most people don't have the extra $250,000 or more that it takes to own their own franchise business. But almost every one of us can afford to have the next best thing. And that's exactly what I'm telling you about here: The NEXT...BEST...THING...and that's Network Marketing.

Network Marketing has taken the concept of franchising - providing independent entrepreneurs with a ready-made, low-risk, proven, turn-key small-business opportunity - and made some remarkable improvements on it:

Low Capital Investment - Little or No Risk
How much money do you need to become an independent Network Marketer? There is usually no fee required to start your Networking business. You'll typically commit between a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars for your sales kit, training and sales materials, and all your initial product inventory if you even need it.

The Benefits and Tax Advantages of a Home-Based Business
For most participants, Network Marketing is a home-based business, so you don't have the high overhead of a retail or office location. The equipment you need to begin your Networking operation can be as simple as a telephone, desk and file cabinet. And the potential tax advantages of owning and operating a home-based business represent one of the last forms of tax relief available to the average American today.

No Employees - You Are In Control
As a Network Marketer, you are an independent contractor - the CEO of your own businesses. You have no "employees." The men and women with whom you'll work are also CEOs, running their own independent Networking businesses. In Network Marketing, you don't simply "own your own job" - you own your own business. (And unlike most entrepreneurs, your business does not own you!) You are truly in control of your work - and your life.

More Choices - Part-Time, Full-Time, Travel, National and Global Businesses
Every Network Marketer is a volunteer: You don't "have to" do anything. You're free to work the days and hours you want, where you want, doing what you want - and perhaps most important of all, you're free to choose the people with whom you work.
Although the majority of Networkers work their businesses part-time, more and more men and women are pursuing Network Marketing as a full-time career. Some work exclusively from their homes; others enjoy traveling to other cities and even to other countries, building their businesses on a world-wide scale.

Complete Professional Support
In Network Marketing, you're in business for yourself - but not by yourself. Your Network Marketing corporation's success depends on your success - they're your business partner, so they give you all the support possible, every step of the way.
As a good franchise company would do, a good Network Marketing company provides you with the product or service to market, plus an R & D department, new product development, field training, sales and marketing literature and promotional materials, a distributor service department, and more. And today every Network Marketing company is Internet Friendly. You and your company are truly partners in a win-win opportunity.
Sound incredible? It is - but there's more. There's another very special reason Network Marketing is the next step beyond franchising. Which is why it's sometimes called...

"Franchising²"
When you buy a franchise, you acquire the right to market the product or service provided by your company. It's much the same in Network Marketing, except that you don't have to pay a franchise fee nor the same huge startup and overhead costs, have retail location and/or elaborate equipment, hire and manage employees or have geographic restrictions on your marketing territory. You also don't have to pay a percentage of your sales back to the Network Marketing company, as you do in franchising. What's more, you are an independent contractor - you work for you - not for "the company."
And as if all of that were not remarkable enough, a Network Marketing company does one more truly revolutionary thing for you. They give you the ability to offer the opportunity to build a successful business to others, too!
In Network Marketing, you not only get to earn income from marketing your company's products or services (like a franchisee), you can also earn income from the sales generated by people you enroll into your own Network organization - people who, just like you, own their own independent Network Marketing businesses. That's why we call it Franchising².
And that's what creates one of Network Marketing's most powerful and and profitable features: it allows you to leverage your time, talent and energy to earn commissions from the sales made by all the other people you bring into the business.

Andrew Carnegie once said, "I would rather have one percent of 100 people's efforts than 100 percent of my own." And that's just what Network Marketing enables you to do. This explains why so many "ordinary" people can achieve extraordinary success in the Network Marketing industry. Conventional sales and distribution methods depend on a few, select high-performance sales superstars, who each do a huge amount of sales volume. Network Marketing is just the opposite: it's based on a lot of people - doing a little bit each. That's why we call this concept "The People's Franchise".

Network Marketing powerfully combines all the income-building benefits of being both a "franchisee" and a "franchise company" at the same time - while cutting out the major stumbling blocks of both.

There's no fee, because you're an independent Network Marketer
You don't pay royalties from your sales back to the company.
There's no hiring, firing or managing employees.
There are none of the all-consuming demands of a seven-day work-week and 15-hour-a-day retail operation.
There's the powerful marketing advantage of offering superior quality, one-of-a-kind specialty products and unique services that meet high consumer demand with exceptional value through Relationship marketing..
There's the independence of choice: choosing with whom you work, when, where and how you work.
There's the freedom of a home-based business - and the potential tax advantages that come with it.
There's the flexibility of part-time or full-time involvement, as your unique situation allows.
There's the ability to leverage your time and energy to earn income from the efforts of others.
There's the limited risk of a start-up that requires only a few hundred dollars.
There's the proven potential reward of both earned income and residual income - which can range from an extra $500 or $1,000 per month up to $10,000, $25,000 and more.
It's a great business for the Internet, too. When you combine the High-Touch of Network Marketing with the High-Tech of e-mail and the world wide web, it just might be the most perfect business of all....
And finally, there is still the opportunity for you to be one of the first to enter an industry - an industry that has just begun its dramatic growth curve... an industry that is creating a revolution in the way the world buys and sells everything!

There has never been a better time than now to take a serious look at Network Marketing. "The People's Franchise" is an extraordinary concept whose time has come - today!

Now is the time of best investment for greatest returns in Network Marketing. It's like having the chance to buy gold again at $49 an ounce!

Make the time today to check out the benefits of building your own Network Marketing business. It's a straightforward and simple, low-risk investment - and it promises to return the most remarkable rewards you can imagine.

Thanks for your willingness to take a look at Network Marketing - The People's Franchise.