{"id":911,"date":"2010-04-06T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/are-you-a-high-risk-franchise-buyer\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T09:40:51","slug":"are-you-a-high-risk-franchise-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/are-you-a-high-risk-franchise-buyer","title":{"rendered":"Are You A High Risk Franchise Buyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you decide to become your own boss, and buy a franchise business<\/strong>, there&#39;s <strong>one thing<\/strong> you can do to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> increase<\/em><\/span> your chances of franchise failure;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy emotionally.<\/strong> That&#39;s it. Instead of<em> first<\/em> learning what a franchise business <em>really is<\/em>, and taking a methodical, step by step approach to a major decision like this, just go ahead and<em> buy a franchise <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because you like it<\/span>.<strong> <\/strong><\/em><strong>Hundreds<\/strong> of others have done just that. <strong>They&#39;re what&#39;s known as <em>ex-franchise owners. <\/em><\/strong><em>They were<strong><span style=\"color: #c00000;\"> high-risk<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em> franchise buyers.<\/em><strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I decided to develop a few <strong>online courses<\/strong> on franchising. I came up with what I think is a cutting-edge name of my little project;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchiseonlineuniversity.com\">Franchise Online University.com <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But, I think I kind of blew it. The word &quot;<strong>University<\/strong>&quot; may be scaring people away.  <\/p>\n<p><object height=\"384\" width=\"495\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IYUNJ27dx5o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IYUNJ27dx5o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"495\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Please<\/em> make sure everyone you know who has lost their job, and is starting to say things like, &quot;Maybe I should do my own thing,&quot; or &quot;I think it&#39;s time for me to be the boss,&quot; or I&#39;m going to look at some franchises,&quot; knows about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchiseonlineuniversity.com\"> Franchise Online University.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#39;ll be helping them tremendously. There <em>are<\/em> ways to lower risk. Getting educated before jumping into something is about the strongest.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you decide to become your own boss, and buy a franchise business, there&#8217;s one thing you can do to increase your chances of franchise failure; Buy emotionally. That&#8217;s it. 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