Creation of that franchise agreement draft is step one of the adventure of preparing to turn your business into a profitable franchise chain.

When you start the process of preparing a franchise agreement draft, you know you are on the way toward the very profitable step of franchising your business.  It is a savvy business move because when you reach that point that your current business is successful, the natural next step is to expand that business.  Franchising a business is a great way to expand quickly because you shift much of the grunt work of growing the business to eager franchisees and you charge them for the privilege to boot.

When you start thinking about going the franchising route, it is easy to want to jump to the part where you bring in excited investors who love your business model and are eager to take out their checkbooks and buy into your business.  Before you jump to that stage, you have some homework to do including the development of franchising documents. So the faster you conquer what it takes to hammer out a franchise agreement draft, the faster you can get to the big money making stage where the fun begins.

There are a number of franchising documents that you will need to prepare before you begin to get out there and start fishing for great franchise owners.  The franchising world is heavily regulated by the Federal Trade Commission so that franchise agreement draft must live up to the standards that the FTC has in place to make sure the entire franchising transaction stays honest and that nobody takes anybody for a ride.

The process of preparing a franchise agreement draft will facilitate some decision making and preparation that has to happen before any franchises are sold to anyone.  Better to take a few days, weeks or months in getting organized and getting all of your franchise documents together than to discover that you are coming up short once discussions start with real living prospective franchise owners.

Disclosure is a big part of the game.

It is during that preparation phase when your franchise agreement draft is still in the revisions stage that you will hammer out the terms of your franchise including the fees that you will charge, how you will handle distribution of merchandise, advertising and the dozens of other terms of the franchise relationship that will dictate how the machinery of your new business model will work to make you and your franchise investors happy and wealthy.

Along with stepping through he business terms, developing a franchise agreement draft will also help you design the other documents that will be needed when you go into business with the many franchisors who will be beating your door down to invest in your business.  Some of those documents include the franchise disclosure documents and your franchise operations manual.

Not only does the FTC insist that all of your documentation fulfill a high level of disclosure to your future franchise investors, it is smart to let them know every detail of what they are getting themselves for when they become part of your organization as franchise owners.  When you have disclosed every aspect of what it means to run a business that lives up to your requirements, that will bode well for a very successful partnership. And when you are happy and your franchise owners are happy because your franchise agreement draft and the other disclosure documents are complete and correct, that means a very prosperous future for your business this year and for many years to come.