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Text Box: A franchise may need to be looked at from a product or service comparison prospective. While one franchise’s product or service may be suitable in a geographic area, another may not be. When evaluating a franchise, close attention needs to be spent evaluating several factors: the strength of the franchiser, the franchiser’s long-term goal, the uniqueness of its product or service, the type of consumer response the product or service is achieving, the amount of fees it charges, and the type of support it provides.

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Franchise businesses provide jobs for 21 million Americans and generate $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy.

Source: IFA Educational Foundation report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers

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What do Apple Computer, Hershey Chocolate, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and the Ford Motor Company have in common? They all started out as home based businesses. Over half of all U.S. businesses are based out of an owner's home. Starting a home based business has many rewards and challenges.

Who are entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurs ...

• create and grow enterprises (Kellogg Foundation).

• organize and manage a business undertaking,

assuming the risk for the sake of the profit. (Webster’s

New World Dictionary).

• develop innovations, create jobs, and contribute to a

more vibrant national and global economy. (Kauffman

Foundation).

Why are entrepreneurs important?

Economist David Birch estimates that on average, 7

percent to 8 percent of jobs are lost in a local economy

each year due to the natural cycling of firms. Typically,

the new jobs that replace those lost are coming from

expansion of existing small businesses (55 percent), from

new business start-ups (44 percent), and from business

relocations (1 percent). Research also strongly correlates

the level of entrepreneurship to overall economic growth.

The Small Business Administration’s data indicate that

small businesses:

• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.

• Employ half of all private-sector employees.

• Pay more than 45 percent of the total U.S. private

payroll.

• Have generated 60 percent to 80 percent of net new

jobs annually over the last decade.

• Create more than 50 percent of nonfarm private gross

domestic product (GDP).

• Supplied more than 23 percent of the total value of

federal prime contracts in FY 2005.

• Produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee

than large patenting firms. These patents are twice as

likely as large firm patents to be among the 1 percent

most cited.

• Are employers of 41 percent of high-tech workers (such

as scientists, engineers, and computer workers).

• Are 53 percent home-based and 3 percent

franchises.

• Made up 97 percent of all identified exporters and

produced 28.6 percent of the known export value in

FY 2004.

Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census; Advocacy-funded research by Joel

Popkin and Company (Research Summary #211); Federal Procurement

Data System; Advocacy-funded research by CHI Research, Inc. (Research

Summary #225); Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey;

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.

Text Box: Want to be your own boss, but aren't willing to take on the risk of starting your own business from scratch? Franchising can be a great alternative. If you are an entrepreneur with limited resources or business experience, and you want to have some guidance in the start-up phase of the business, a franchise or business opportunity is the right fit.

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Founded in 1981, Salem, Oregon-based Figaro’s Pizza has been recognized as “the best pizza you can have at home.” Pizzas can be baked in the restaurant or taken home in oven ready baking trays for home baking. Pizza is also sold by the slice in some stores. There are 4,000 topping combinations to choose from. Dependent upon location, other menu items may include lasagna, sandwiches, calzones, salads and soft drinks. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.figaros.com