| Take Ownership of Your Work and Your Life at The Franchise and Business Opportunities Expo
North America's largest Franchise and Business Opportunities Expo returns to Florida for its 2nd annual show September 8th & 9th, 2007 at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Over 1700 potential entrepreneurs looking to become their own boss, or who are in search of the ideal business partner will explore the hottest new franchises and industry opportunities available in Florida. The Franchise and Business Opportunities Expo showcases a large variety of established franchises plus exciting ground floor opportunities. Consumers have the unique opportunity to meet face to face with representatives from the most profitable franchises that are looking for new franchisees and business partners. "Some of North America's best known storefront franchises in the retail, food, fitness, and service industries, in addition to proprietors of thriving business opportunities and home-based businesses, will be exhibiting throughout the weekend," says Fred Cox Jr., Show Producer.
Village Coffee brews up growth
Village Coffee is branching out. Village Coffee founder Tommy Lowery currently owns three stores -- the original in Troy and two in east Montgomery -- and he's sold licenses in Millbrook, Prattville and Enterprise as well as one in California. He says he's negotiating a dozen other license deals. The Alabama-based company is growing through licensing, which allows the buyer a more affordable and more flexible opportunity than franchising, Lowery said. Under a franchise agreement, the store operator follows instructions from corporate on almost every aspect of running the business. In a license agreement, the store owner has permission to use a company's name and sell its products, according to Daniel Slocki, a counselor at the Auburn University Small Business Development Center.
Friday | 28 September, 2007
What storage trends are you seeing in the SMB market and how is Iomega addressing them? We are seeing huge growth in network-attached storage (NAS) coupled in the SMB space with a requirement for enterprise level services. They are not getting those levels of service yet, predominantly due to costs. We are trying to bring these services down to SMB because we have been playing in that space for a long time. Small companies are in a situation where they lack IT knowledge, they lack the funds to have an IT headcount and they most likely have a lack of interest although they understand it is vital for them to have IT infrastructure in place. As an SMB, you want to invest your resources somewhere other than IT. The role we have as a company is to work out how we can bring those enterprise services and applications to SMB.
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