New Guide to Franchises - Don Daszkowski
Ever thought about buying a franchise as a way to own your own business? Franchises generally offer a proven business model, a reliable supply chain, brand recognition and national marketing support. Of course, all that comes at a price, but the success rate with established franchises is significantly higher than among entrepreneurs generally.
If you'd like to explore franchise ownership, you'll want to get to know Don Daszkowski, our new Franchising Guide. Don is President and CEO of Business Mart and the Franchise Buyers Network. He has owned and operated several businesses for the last 14 years.
Don's site is your source for everything you ever wanted to know about franchising, including:
- Franchise Basics
- Choosing a Franchise
- Buying a Franchise
- Franchise Reviews
- Popular Franchises
- Legal Issues
- Franchise Business Plans
- Financing
If franchising is new to you, or if you're just starting to explore it as an option, you may want to start with:
Don't franchising blog is also a great source of current news and issues in franchising, such as:
- Is McDonald's Recession Proof?
- Subway Franchise is Going Green
- The Franchisor Must Tell All (an analysis of the new Franchise Disclosure Document)
- Dunkin' Donuts Expansion Plan Will Hurt Some Existing Franchisees
Elsewhere on the Web:
Comments
Wow, you’ve done some great research and got some powerful links here. But I still say, the way to make money is to set up a frnchise and sell the idea to others, in other words, be the franchise owner! Even a little idea based around a hobby is food for franchising! And when you consider many frianchise opportunities can only cover a small geographical area per franchisee, well, the world’s your oyster! Great marketing tip! But I do sometimes wonder if corporate persons with a few tens of thousands to spare aren’t too fast to buy themselves into another ‘job’ when they could equally start a business straight from scratch and later franchise that out. However, the real upside of buying into a franchise is the safety of the company image and proven brands.
Whatever happened to risk management?
Don,
I was not able to find your email address on Businessmart.com so I thought i might reach you this way.
June 9th, 2008
Don Daszkowski
CEO
Businessmart.com
732-952-2190
499 Ernston Rd.
Suite A10
Parlin, NJ 08859
Michael Pacholek
Account Manager
Business Mart
Michalep@businessmart.com
732-952-2190
Michael,
Here is the email I sent to you when my 4 month trail was up to ensure that you did not charge me anything for your site as it did absolutely nothing for me what so ever. I have just found out that you have been charging me $34.95 per month since apx. January of this year. That means you have charged my credit card apx. 6 months time $34.95 or $209.70. I had no idea that you were charging me and assumed since I discussed this with you both on the phone and followed up in the email I will copy bellow to ensure that was not charged for your site. The reason I now noticed it is that last month I was very close on my account but based on my calculations had enough money to cover my checks. Thanks to your companies illegal practices my account was overdrawn and I received apx. $125.00 in overdraft fees from my bank. I am now formally requesting in writing that you refund my credit card the $209.70 that you have charged my account without my authorization and against the exact request I made to you over the phone and in email. I also request that you refund my credit card an additional $125.00 dollars to cover the overdraft fee from my bank due to your illegal practices.
If you agree to refund me this total of $334.70 immediately and immediately remove any information regarding me from your site including any of my credit card information after providing this information to my bank I will consider this matter closed and resolved. If for any reason however you decide not to do this I will use the email list I have with every realtor in the United States of America and every member of the Commercial Realtors boards I am a member of to send them all information on how useless your site has been to me and how I was charged after being promised I was not going to be and then was even given trouble about getting this money refunded. I will ensure that every commercial / business realtor knows about your practices, that every realtor from any industry knows of your practices and I will also file a law suit against your company for this amount of money, court costs, legal costs with my attorney / friend and any other expenses I can come up with. I would much prefer to not have to take this step and hope that after you review my account and even find the email I sent you requesting not to be charged that you will handle this immediately. I am glad I kept records and all the emails back and forth to you on this matter as my friend the attorney said with that information I have nothing to worry about we will most certainly win if you choose not to handle this matter quickly.
Here is a copy of the email I sent you to ensure that I would not be charged after the 4 month period was up:
From: Wayne & Kim Carter 305-394-5219
To: ‘Michael Pacholek (BusinessMart.com)’
Subject: RE: BusinessMart.com 4-Month Promotional Offer
I just want to make sure that if the 4 month offer is over that I do not get charged I do not want to start to pay for this site.
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