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		<title>Can a franchise be built from Sole Proprietorships?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[Mike P.,
There`s plenty of busi]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Mike P.,
There`s plenty of businesses here in Seattle that do video conversions.&nbsp; I wanted to fill a niche that wasn`t being filled.&nbsp; If you decide to do video and film&nbsp;conversions, the cost for equipment jumps exponentially.&nbsp]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[&nbsp;Joe, 
As a consumer,&nbsp]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Joe, 
As a consumer,&nbsp;I would&nbsp;find it&nbsp;beneficial to&nbsp;bundle up video conversion services with your audio conversions. With all the VCR tapes I have accumulated over the years it would be nice to have one company take care]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thank you all for your input.
M]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your input.
Mike Paige, your ideas will be extremely valuable.&nbsp; I`ve been working on documentation for just those purposes: procedures, tools, supplies, strategies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like modes of advertising that work (and those]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Audio Poobah,I would be interes]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Audio Poobah,I would be interested in a partnership like this. My background in music goes further back than 1990, when I attended the Art Institute of Seattle. I now live in San Jose, CA.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Joe, 
Definately&nbsp;&nbsp; Ye]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Joe, 
Definately&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, 
but to add to what Mike had to say.&nbsp; answer these questions...
Why would someone want to purchase your franchise.?
How easy would it be for new competition to enter the market??]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[There is no reason you could not]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[There is no reason you could not franchise this operation. The keys to sucsessfully doing this, in my experiance, are:

Record everything you do on a dayly basis and orginize it, you have ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hello
I have a home based busin]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hello
I have a home based business, Precision Audio Restoration, http://www.precision-ar.com, &nbsp;which restores recordings from various media to CD.&nbsp; It provides a good supplement]]></description>
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