You’re tired of working for someone else, putting in all the effort and not reaping the benefit

of your ideas and efforts. Or worse, you’ve been laid off a few times and don’t think you have it

in you to go through that again. You‘ve always fantasized about owning your own business.

Chances are you have been bitten by the entrepreneur bug. Franchising provides you with a

fairly rigorous structure within which to run your business. If you’re too entrepreneurial, you will

chafe at the reins and want to do it Your Way (Frank singing in the background). If you take

direction well, don’t want to reinvent the wheel but DO want to control your own destiny, you’re a

definite maybe.

You want to leave a (business) legacy for your kids. Honorable. Goal worthy. However,

there’s some bad news around that. According to the Family Business Institute only 12% of

family businesses survive to the third generation. The reasons are myriad: improper business

succession planning, no interest on the part of the kids, no management team in place to

arrange for orderly transition and most importantly – just because you feel passionate about this

business doesn’t mean your kids will.

You want to move. You live in the Boston area and you swore you’re not going to endure

another winter there. This is a viable reason to look toward franchising and one for which

franchising can, very often, provide an elegant solution. This requires a lot of due diligence in

terms of researching where you want to be and finding a good business fit for that area, based

on its demographics and a whole host of other parameters. I love helping people live in a place

that makes them happy.

You retired. Then after a few years you grew bored, restless and found yourself signing up for

job postings through Indeed and snooping around on LinkedIn. You’re tired of living on a

budget, you long for the free spending days of yore when there was no budget. You miss the

game. You love business. Oh wait, I’m describing me awhile back! But guess what? If that

describes you too, we should talk…soon.

If you’d like to see if you are a Franchisee in the making, take this quiz put out a few years back

by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB)

http://www.nfib.com/article/quiz-are-you-cut-out-for-franchising-51892/

JANE STEIN

PRESIDENT | FRANCHISE CONSULTANT AT YOUR FRANCHISE IS WAITING

I retired after 25 years as a Senior Vice President and Certified Financial Planner in the financial

services industry, and then started this business 10 years later. We'll start by discussing your

long range financial objectives. After assessing your skill sets and work style (and other

variables), I go to work researching different business concepts that will help you achieve those

goals. My process can simplify and shortcut the navigation through the world of franchising. I

hope you'll find the same satisfaction and security in self employment that I have.