In the franchising industry many service firms can excel by collecting national accounts, which have outlets in many states. Each franchisee can help with the over all multi-state National Corporate Account. Only one problem; many franchising companies purposely choose not to do business in certain states such as WA, CA, MD, NY and IL.

When discussing this recently with one academic professor he advised a strategy might be to do what many bootleggers did in the past by putting bars just over the borders of prohibition states. Interesting indeed and his comments about cross border services from one franchise registration state to another is worthy. For instance MI, IN, KY are notification states and not issues. IL is a tough nut to crack.

Indeed you could run units from a cross border state HQ'ered franchisee. We have done this previously in order to serve large accounts in my company; CarWashGuys.com, we used franchisees in ID into WA and OR into WA; also NJ into NY and SC, TN into VA. Etc. But it is not only the franchise registration states. The Federal Government also has their heads up their asses, the disclosure docs being so lengthy you may as well invite your competitors both foreign and domestic into your office for the day to go thru all your computers, banking records and files.

That is not workable and indeed it very much hurts America, too bad really, we need downsizing of regulations all the way around. Franchising is a good venue, but when you are in a good business model why share it, with those who can too easily sue you after they put out piss poor performance and you terminate for such. I would rather keep my money not pay it to professional parasitical lawyers and Caesar was correct. Consider this in 2006.

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