Why You Need A Franchise Attorney

Unless you are a franchise attorney, don't decide to set up your won franchise business without consulting one. No matter how skilled you are at doing online research into the technicalities of starting a franchise; no matter how much advise you have been given by other successful franchisees; and no matter how helpful your franchisor is, you need to hire your own franchise attorney before you sign anything, both when starting your business and during your proprietorship.

Work at Home Franchise Opportunities

Potential Franchisees seeking a business opportunity that can be run from have never had such a great choice. Franchisors have now realised that the potential for home based franchises is huge. More and more people want to leave the rat race and work for themselves at the same time as keeping their overheads low.

Lawyers Profit From Our Due Dilligence

To use a lawyer or to not use a lawyer? When we start a new small business we generally have most of our financial resources already in the business. Therefore, when 'trivial' details like business contracts need to be signed a lawyers opinion and advice is generally sacrificed.

Coffee Franchises - A Tough Business?

Coffee franchises are springing up in almost every town and city worldwide. It is a tough business to be in when you consider the long hours, health and safety regulations and numbers of staff required.

Small Business - Franchising and the Economic Reality of Regulation

Have you ever considered how smaller businesses and even franchisees who own franchised outlets are hurt in economic downturns? Have you ever considered the ebb and flow of regulations and how they try to control it? We all know that the government does nothing very well and yet we allow them to try to reign in the cattle and corral the raging rapids of our economy. Why?

Franchise Information - Understanding Franchise Agreements

The franchise agreement outlines the way your business will work within your franchise system. It gives both you, the franchisee, and your franchisor a clear understanding of the terms of your business relationship.

Business Ethics: The Law of Corporate Karma

According to the shamanic traditions, the great mystery of being is that all things are alive and have a level of intelligence. This is because all things are a part of the Great Spirit. However, all things also function individually, in thought and action. It is in these individual actions that karma is born. Karmic laws also state that all karma, both good and bad, must also return home...return to sender!

Ethics in Business - Please Have Some

Ethics - in a profession or trade - is that branch of philosophy which studies the principles of right and wrong in human conduct.

Enron's Ultimate Victim: Ethics

FROM the 'MORAL HIGH GROUND', where we imagine ourselves, the Enron fiasco should have come as no surprise. Enron is simply a quintessential example of the degradation of principles such as trust, l...

Business Ethics

There is much talk today about ethics in business - as there should be, but there should be more than talk; there should be a high moral code for all executives who are responsible to both their customers and their shareholders.

Ethics? How To Take the Measure Business

When asked to write a small piece pertaining to ethics and integrity in the business world, my first inclination was to draw on personal experience. Everyone has bad experiences to relate. We deal...

Are You an Ethical Person?

I think those currently making their living in the internet marketing arena, and those trying to break into that arena need to consider the area of ethics very seriously.

The Only Thing You Get for Free in Life is Hungry!

Business Ethics has virtually become an oxymoron online. Promises of instant wealth and overnight success permeates the World Wide Web. There are a few ways to tell the difference between a real business opportunity and a scam designed to seperate you from your hard earned money.

Minding Your Global Manners

Guidelines to help you find your way through the maze of international etiquette rules that apply whether you work on-line or in an office.

Mind Your Own Damn Business Sexcess

You have certainly heard the expression “mind your own damn business” used in a multitude of contexts.The most typical being the don’t kiss and tell type statements, often uttered by responsibly private individuals about their love life. Then there are the polar opposite, blabbermouth, tell all people (you know who you are) that just can’t keep their preverbal trap shut.