'g' Green Design Center Announces Launch of Franchise Opportunity

GreenBuild In Boston

Green Design Center will officially launch its new franchising operations on Wednesday, November 19th at the GreenBuild conference in Boston and is offering franchise opportunities to qualified and passionate individuals who want to provide our unique blend of retail and showroom green building and home design products and services to a growing market of homeowners, architects, builders, and small businesses.

These opportunities will allow Green Design Center to expand as a resource throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and soon to be available throughout New England & New York as well as...). We welcome inquiries from motivated individuals who are looking to become part of the global solution, who have a passion for green living and who are seeking a business venue where they can promote their committment to the environment while developing a meaningful business and career.

This is a transitional time in the green building community and as the GreenBuild conference validates, the interest in this industry is strong and growing. Green Design Center is proud to play a role in the development of this market and we are excited to provide this opportunity and demonstrate our goal to make green building materials available in an accessible, understandable, affordable and stylish manner. We look forward to working with our future partners on this journey.

Learn more at http://www.ggreendesign.com/

Don Boroian's Economic Speech on YouTube

Be sure to check out the speech given by the Chairman of Francorp, Don Boroian, discussing the economy and its effect on the franchise industry.

It is split up into two links on youtube.

part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXqbPryYCR4
part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVqyToRnH1M

This video really shows how important it is to pay attention to expand your company in this type of economy. Very nice video. Thanks Don.

When in trouble: turn to franchising.

Hello all,

So I went surfing today on the International Franchise Association website and found a very nice article on how people are turning to Franchises when the economy gets bad...

This particular story is based on franchise owners in Michigan (at mlive.com, Everything Michigan). It was written by Shandra Martinez at the Grand Rapids Press.

Shandra Martinez did a very good job of displaying how the franchise industry is continuously growing and is pretty much recession-proof. She also showed a bunch of examples of franchisees that left their old professions (i.e. teacher, salesman, marketer, etc.) and moved around and borrowed finances to start new lives through franchising.

Franchising really is a powerful thing. Whether you franchise your company (through Francorp!) or buy a franchise, you are buying into the success of a system (franchise system). Systems promote efficiency. Who doesn't want to be efficient?

(note: if you would like to check out the article for more information, please visit http://www.mlive.com/grpress/business/index.ssf/2008/11/for_economys_casualties_franch.html ), compliments of the IFA.

Also, you can check out Francorpconnect.com if you are interested in buying.