The State of the Industry: Franchising Today
- Appearance of government oversight
- Arbitration, secret
- Assuming a busy store is a profitable store can be very dangerous
- Attempts to rehabilitate image
- Bait advertising
- Be your own boss
- Betrayal
- Cat's-paw
- Caveat emptor canard
- Celebrity endorsement
- Code of ethics, a joke
- Company man
- Conflict of interest
- Deceptive business practices
- Development deal hype
- Disclosure document: best franchisor selling tool
- Disclosure laws do not reduce fraud
- Economies of scale promise
- Excuse du jour
- Fair weather friends
- False earnings claims
- False success claims
- Franchisor changes personal names
- Fraud mushrooms when regulation is dropped
- Fraudulent misrepresentation
- Gosh, we've never heard of that problem
- Half-truths
- Hidden agenda
- In business for yourself, not by yourself
- It's not about the money
- Mask of respectability
- Perception of lower business risk
- Potemkin village
- Private detective used
- Survivability (franchisee and franchisor)
- Unintentional franchises
- Vacuum of information favours dominant party
- Veil of secrecy
- We have no franchisee failures
- Wolf in sheep’s clothing