Many Business and Opportunity Companies and their owners are quite upset that the FTC or Federal Trade Commission is making them a separate category from the Franchise Rule, but there are good reasons for this. You see there is a big difference from Business Opportunities, Multi-Level Marketing and the World of Franchising. Franchising represents nearly 35% of the consumer spending in our GDP and does it with fewer than 3500 Corporations.

The fraud rates in franchising is under 1% based on complaints at the FTC or Federal Trade Commission. In the recent rule and regulations reviews on Franchising and Biz Ops under the franchise rule many commenters on both sides of this debate spoke out. It seems that;