Franchise Business Systems that are Lemons

A”lemon” in slang means a person or thing considered to be useless or defective.

Many franchise systems are fundamentally flawed.

Robert James and James Home Services: Relying on the franchisee desperation to compensate for a business that has fundamental problems that haven’t been addressed.

Coffee franchisors that use manufactured figures to BS franchisees or Home Service Franchisors that use “conditional income guarantees” to con franchisees in to sign up.

Franchisors who are directing franchisees to under pay employees as contractors to compensate for the lack of profit in the business.

Many franchisors have little or no manuals, support and training for their franchisees.

There seems to be an expectation that the franchisee should be able to work it out and if not it’s their problem.

Robert James and James Home Services: Franchisors with no experience in the business that they are flogging franchises in. A franchisor who has NEVER run a home services business cannot direct franchisees to success.

The lack of professional support is lacking across the sector. There are an in-crowd and the outsiders in most networks.

The In-Crowd help sell a franchise.

The ‘Outsiders’ are vilified to stop them from speaking out about issues in the network.

Franchisors invest in the evolution of the systems if you plan to survive long term.

If it’s broken, fix it!

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