The Franchise Magazine:

Newly launched Safeclean franchise owner Ryan Dowling is hoping that running his own business will not only provide him with a good income but also with the independence he craves. “I previously worked in sales, however I began looking into franchising as I wanted to earn more money and to be in charge of my day to day life as well as in control of my future,” recalls Ryan.

“When I came across Safeclean it immediately appealed to me because I would be able to earn an income from day one. Additionally, I would be able to work in almost all weather conditions and the cleaning was not dangerous or demanding.”

Safeclean is a furnishing-care franchise that provides its cleaning services to retailers and manufacturers as well as individual home owners. The services that franchise owners offer include cleaning a range of carpets, upholstery and stain removal and protection.

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PR Web:

ZeeWise™ Inc., the leading provider of Franchise Business Intelligence (BI) software announced today the release of CARS Premier Edition (Collection And Reporting System) at the 50th Annual International Franchise Association (IFA) Convention in San Antonio, Texas. For the first time in franchising, the new ZeeWise software enables managers to gain operational insight similar to the reporting and BI capabilities available to the Fortune 500.

CARS Premier Edition (CARS PE) is a Web-based software tool designed for use with Intuit Inc.’s QuickBooks® to provide franchisors with insight into their franchisees, or “Zees”, financial and operational performance.

“Utilizing our unique patent-pending Zpipe data collection tool, CARS PE automatically collects and consolidates individual Zees QuickBooks financial data as well as operational data from line of business applications. The CARS PE system then consolidates this data and presents it in a visual format using summary reports and dashboards to create an enterprise-wide model for benchmarking Zee performance,” said Jerry Bell, CEO of ZeeWise.

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PR Newswire:

MyMenu, a Chicago-based frozen grocery retailer that offers hundreds of delicious easy-to-prepare meal ideas in one easy-to-navigate aisle, announced today that it is offering single unit franchise opportunities throughout the Midwest. The company also announced a highly competitive pioneer plan, which reduces the investment requirements for the first MyMenu franchisees in Madison, WI, and Fort Wayne, IN, where MyMenu currently operates stores.

MyMenu’s Madison, WI, and Fort Wayne, IN stores have welcomed shoppers since the summer of 2008. For a limited time, the company is extending a pioneer plan offer to new franchisees in these two communities. The plan significantly reduces the investment requirements for a new MyMenu franchisee and includes savings of approximately $100,000 through the reduction of upfront costs including the initial franchise fee, elimination of the construction fee, as well as lowering the cost of construction. MyMenu is also lowering its royalties to as low as 3 per cent, as part of the pioneer plan. It will also provide considerable store support, and field support to offset operational costs. MyMenu is also offering area representative opportunities throughout the Midwest.

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Brazzil Magazine:

Last year alone, 14,365 new franchises were opened in Brazil, generating 144,000 new work posts. The country has the third main franchise market in the world. According to figures included in a Rizzo Franchise study, in 2010, the sector should continue growing and expectations are for the generation of revenues of US$ 135 billion by the end of the year.

The food sector was the one that presented the greatest growth in 2009, with 33% more franchises than in 2008. In the second place came the garment sector, with growth of 18.4%. Then came the sectors of personal accessories, with 11.4%, and services, with 9.4% growth. This year, 39 new franchises are being inaugurated each day.

According to research “Franchises in the Brazilian Economy 2010″, the country has 149,000 franchise units, which together had revenues of US$ 128 billion last year.

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PR Web:

Images 4 Kids, the nation’s top children’s photography franchise, is offering a limited-time Recession Rebate of $10,000 toward the franchise fee.

The company specializes in providing child care centers, preschools and private schools with high-end, studio-quality portraits using unique props and sets. Images 4 Kids has more than 60 franchises throughout the country.

Founder and CEO Marcia Altizer began her career in photography under adverse circumstances as a young single mother searching for a way to support a child and herself without sacrificing her duties as a mother.

Her first step was to save enough money to purchase a commercial camera and teach herself studio photography. From those humble beginnings, she went on to quickly build a successful national franchise.

“From my own experience, I am well aware of the challenges facing today’s families in a struggling economy with high unemployment and an unstable future,” Marcia said.

In response to those challenges, she has created the Recession Rebate to enable more families to share in the success that she has attained through children’s photography. Read more.

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QSR magazine:

Money Mailer Mobile announced the availability of its self-service text coupon software.

The software gives businesses such as neighborhood restaurants the ability to send text messages to their customers during special promotional periods and slow sales days.

“It’s amazing how communities have come alive when we’ve sent out a mobile offer for our clients. Now neighborhood businesses can do it whenever they want,” says Steven Gray, chief operating officer for Money Mailer. “Mobile couponing delivers a strong return on investment because it reaches customers who have asked to receive offers and delivers those offers directly to them on their phone. It is extremely affordable and highly impactful. We’ve seen how powerful it can be to get the cash register ringing.”

One local hamburger restaurant that recently integrated Money Mailer’s text couponing with their shared mail campaign reported that it resulted in a 20 to 1 return on investment.

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The BG News:

Angel Montero dreamed of owning a coffee shop with whispering patrons, dim lights and relaxing background music.

But she never expected it would take a drive-through window, and perhaps more importantly, the exposed mid-riffs and sun-tanned curves of her bikini-clad employees to help her business boom after only a month.

When Montero heard of a similar bikini drive-thru in Seattle, she decided it was a great twist to add to her coffee shop. The Bare Bean drive-thru, located in the shopping center at the intersection of Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway, opened on Dec. 3 and offers Louisiana’s first bikini baristas.

The baristas’ uniforms consist of a black Victoria’s Secret bikini top and a pair of black Aerie bottoms of the girls’ choosing.

The drive-thru is seeking to hire “attractive all-American girls for barista positions,” according to the Bare Bean Web site.

“Once we put the ad in the paper, the phones were ringing off the hook,” Montero said.

However, intriguing as the uniform of this coffee shop may be, Montero said the skimpy outfits aren’t what she would like the main attraction to be. Read more.

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BigNews.biz:

The auto detail shop, DetailXPerts, created a patent-pending process that resulted in a great product while protecting our planet. Emmanuel Williams, founder of the auto detail shop, listened to his young son who suggested he use steam to wash cars.

Emmanuel’s wife, Angela joined him in his venture as she helped develop the procedures and administration guidelines that made DetailXPerts a successful business model. Once they proved their concept, they decided to expand their goals and satisfy another one of their great passions…helping others to be profitable and successful.

In 2008, Emmanuel and Angela created DetailXPerts Franchising, LLC with a mission to provide affordable business opportunities for entrepreneurs and to create jobs for unskilled labor while preserving our environment.

DetailXPerts is the world’s first eco-friendly, vehicle steam cleaning auto detail shop franchise with 5 locations and a goal to award 34 more franchises across the U.S. Learn more about the opportunity to own an auto detail shop at http://autodetailshop.blogspot.com/2010/01/auto-detail-shop-franchise-opportunity.html

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The Northern Echo:

A young entrepreneur who won the backing of Duncan Bannatyne on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, is to franchise his industrial cleaning business.

UK Commercial Cleaning Services (UKCC), which founder Tony Earnshaw grew from a window cleaning round in Washington, Wearside, to a £1.5m turnover business, is to be franchised across the UK.

UKCC, which Mr Earnshaw established in 2004 with £300, when he was 19, is making the move in order to increase its workforce and prepare for large national contracts that are in the pipeline.

Mr Earnshaw operates from depots in Leeds and Washington, and is using franchising as a way to expand the business, with ambitions to deliver services to Scotland, Wales, the South of England, and Ireland.

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FRM Solutions, a leading provider of relationship management solutions for franchisors, announced today a new software application to meet franchisors’ business needs for franchise sales, marketing and advertising, real estate and store development, franchisee administration, and compliance tracking. FRM Solutions is built on the industry’s leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform and can be customized for each franchisor based on their specific needs. FRM Solutions was founded by Red Clay Consulting, who has completed hundreds of CRM deployments over the past 10 years.

“FRM Solutions was started because franchisors have limited choices for complete franchise management systems that are easy to use and modify for their needs,” said Paul Marnell, Managing Partner, FRM Solutions. “Because current solutions for franchisors are built on proprietary platforms changes to business process, reporting needs and maintaining agility is either a major headache or impossible. Because FRM Solutions is built on the industry-leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform that integrates to Outlook, Excel and Microsoft SharePoint, users adopt it and IT gets it.”

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Online PR News:

With various experience of the electronics & motoring industries behind him, Surrey based local entrepreneur Alex Shurko recently embarked on a new chapter of his career as he has just moved into franchising with Chem-Dry. His recent career background as an employee with Osram part of the Siemens Group and then having run his own independent MOT & Car Repair business, Alex has built a considerable wealth of business knowledge. He will benefit from his recent employee and employer working backgrounds, which will provide the perfect grounding to make his new Chem-Dry professional carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning and disaster restoration franchise a success.

Alex has forged a good working relationship and works closely with another Chem-Dry franchise Chem-Dry Gold, this was helped him build upon his knowledge of his local licence areas. It will also help with some of the technical aspects of running a carpet cleaners franchise business.

Franchisees, which have experience of running their own business, tend to possess skills such as discipline, motivation & process management skills. Due to the challenging issues they have to overcome and the driven personalities they display, ensures they are able to handle challenges as and when they occur.

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Tyrepress.com:

Midas Inc. has acquired the 22 Midas automotive service shops in Northern California owned by franchisee Maurice Glad, who had just reached a $1.8 million fraud settlement with the state of California, reports Tire Review. Two of those locations were then re-franchised to another Midas franchishee.

The $5.8 million sale was completed this weekend, and the shops are now under Midas’ management. Midas acquired these shops in connection with a settlement between Glad and the California attorney general and Bureau of Automotive Repair. Glad had been charged with violating state business and professional codes in a suit seeking $222 million in civil penalties and costs.

Midas was not named in the suit and worked closely with the California attorney general’s office on acquiring these shops. The state accused the 22 Midas stores owned by Glad with pushing customers into unnecessary repairs, and filed suit against the owner last year. Glad operated Midas stores in Walnut Creek, San Leandro, Concord, Hayward, Campbell, Dublin, Fremont, San Jose and in several other towns.

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