Buying into a franchise is the best and easy way to start a business without fear of loosing your hard earned income. This is because in a Franchise business you are not left alone to do all the risk yourself, even though it is your own business with all the profit going to your bank account.

What is Franchising? "Franchising is the processing of a company giving you the rights to start a company in your area, with all their identity,reputation, standard brand name and image."

Franchise has a lot of advantages compared other forms of starting a business.

1. Owning a franchise allows you to go into business for yourself, but not by yourself.

2. A franchise increases your chances of business success because you are associating with proven products and methods.
Lower Failure Rate - When you buy a franchise, you are buying an established concept that has been successful. Statistics show that franchisees stand a much better chance of success than people who start independent businesses; independent businesses stand a 70 to 80 percent chance of NOT surviving the first few critical years while franchisees have an 80 percent chance of surviving.

3. Help with Start Up and Beyond - You get a lot of help starting your business and running it afterwards.

4. As a Franchisee you are given a very sound training by your franchisor..

Most companies you see today in Nigeria is a franchise bought.
E.g Dominos Pizza, Debonairs, Shoprite, HP, Mr Biggs,

Starting your own business. Being your own boss means freedom from lay-offs, downsizing, redundancy and other risks now associated with corporate careers. However, not all industries are created equal. A tough economy has put unprecedented pressures on what were once booming industries. Franchising is one strong way to ensure that you are in business for yourself, but never alone or by yourself.
Franchising with WSI insulates you further against industry downturns – the internet marketing industry has only one way to go – UP!

While budgets are shrinking, the ways to connect with consumers are actually growing. What’s the best channel to reach the super-engaged, or lightly engaged- consumer? Of course, the answer is internet marketing to all channels of today’s communication.

Let’s put this in perspective with an example of the power of social media consider this; in January this year Konga raised 25 million US dollars in foreign investment – arguably the second biggest single raise by any start up in the whole continent. How did Konga grow this much in such a short time? They where quick to realize the shift in consumer habits from conventional to digital.

Today the digital world has permeated every aspect of our daily lives and we are now digital consumers, Media and the consumer have digitized and has begun impacting businesses from the way they acquire and retain customers, to how they present their product or service, and how they manage their reputation.

Today consumers want to see what you have to offer before physically visiting your store, so businesses need a digital presence.
With expanding social networks word of mouth referrals happen instantly between your customer and the hundreds of people across their digital network.

Eventually all businesses will Acquire, Manage, and Retain customers 100% digitally

For business owners, the big ‘a-ha’ moment is when they finally realize that their internet presence is being defined by the consumer world, not the reverse. The WSI Franchise opportunity teaches you how to make businesses, your clients, more proactive in internet marketing. This means when people start Tweeting or posting on Facebook that they’re planning a holiday or buying a car, they can be approached pro-actively. The business can come to the consumer instead of the other way round.

Buying a WSI Franchise gives you the opportunity of owning a world class Digital Marketing Business from one of the largest global brands in Internet Business who has business partnerships with marquee brands like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Hoot suite, Hub Spot, Bing, etc

Hence you would be able to deliver cutting edge digital marketing solutions to your clients

For more info visit : www.wsiwestafrica.com/franchise-business
www.wsiworld.com

how does it benefit a man who his willing to to startup a bizns but does nt hv finacial supports?