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Franchise Database - Mr Clutch Auto centers franchise 

As part of asuperincome.com quest to educate the world in different ways of making money and earning more income both/either offline and online, the site will be displaying information, over the coming years on Franchises. This is the 2nd entry into the super income franchise database, and this one is all about Mr Clutch Auto centres. Some of you may have used them to carry out work on your cars, well read on to find out how you could earn money with a Mr Clutch Franchise.

As usual please only view this for informative purposes only, whenever considering investing money into a franchise please gain legal advice from a British Franchise association approved solicitor.

Mr Clutch auto centres.

Term of Franchise Licence
 5 Years

Investment Costs (illustrative):

Franchise Licence fee
 £12,500 plus VAT

Set up costs
 £63,500

Equipment/Vehicles
 £34,000

Working capital
 £20,000

Total Investment
 £100,000 to £130,000 plus VAT (Depending upon location)

SFLGS Eligible
 Yes

On Going Fees:

Royalty
 10%

Advertising
 5% (Regional budget for franchisees within M25 area only)

Other
 £150 per month (Bookkeeping service)

Licence renewal fee
 No

The company was started over 25 years ago by brothers Joseph and Will Yussef who are still active in the business. Mr Clutch started franchising nearly 20 years ago and their network is split between company owned and franchised centres. In the next five years they aim to increase the number of centres to 150. The business has developed from the fast fit clutch, brake and gearbox centres to now include batteries, automatics, general repairs, servicing and MOT work.

Franchisees will need the ability to sell, manage a team, manage a workshop, manage business finances and be computer literate. Previous motor trade experience would be advantageous but not essential. The ideal candidate would have previous experience as a Service Manager in a dealership. It would be appropriate for a prospective franchisee to work for the company as an employed centre manager whilst a suitable site is being located. Management and communication skills are key attributes as is a commitment to succeed.

Mr Clutch provide centralised purchasing and uses its bulk-buying capabilities to ensure franchisees get quality products at discounted rates. Support is provided from the initial launch of the new centre to ongoing brand awareness, signage, advertising and marketing services. The company employs a Health and Safety officer to offer advice and ensure compliance with all current directives.

Training covers every aspect of running the business, from sales techniques to staff and financial management. Computer systems, workshop maintenance and product fitting is also covered.  An area manager is assigned to provide ongoing support to assist the franchisee make the most of their business opportunity. The franchisor provides a property search and acquisition service to franchisees as finding a suitable location is one of the most important factors of setting up a centre. Mr Clutch also provides the franchisee with ongoing bookkeeping support and monthly management information is made available.

The initial franchise fee of £12,500 covers the initial market research costs for the designated area, property search and assessment costs. It includes the granting of a 5 year licence to operate and use the trademarks and logos. Other costs include £7,500 for legal fees, premises renovation £27,000 (Internal floor resurfacing, electrical alterations/fit out, reception and customer area alterations), Installation of a MOT bay and package cost £20,000, Initial stock £9,000 and major plant and equipment £34,000 (ramps, flywheel grinder, air compressor, trolley jacks, workshop heaters and office equipment). Initial working capital of £20,000 will be required. All figures quoted are exclusive of VAT. The total cost of setting up a centre will vary according to the premises size, type and location however will be up to around £130,000 plus VAT

There seems to be a lot of up front costs with this franchise. And some people seem to think, that some franchises may not expect to generate a trading profit until the second year. If this is the case the franchisee's therefore need to be able to manage their personal expenditure during this initial period, until business grows, and the money is there for the owners to spend. Of course a lot of franchisee's will get a lot of business in the first year, so this wont apply to all, it's always a good idea to speak to someone who owns one of the franchises you are looking to buy. 
 
On a personal note in the past I have used a Mr Clutch centre, and I must say, I found the service a lot better than some of the other brands. I would also be happy to use them again, and I also think that they have a very strong brand.

Most people have used garages, and most people will be aware of the big bills that some people come out with, also the number of cars on the road, sugges that there is a lot of business around for these companies. At the same time their is a lot of competition around. So this needs to be considered, when working out the potential income levels from this or any other franchise system.

At the moment there are roughly 25 UK Franchised outlets, and 17 UK Franchisor owned outlets.

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Japanese cars 'are most reliable'

As asuperincome.com continues its quest to introduce different ways for people to earn more money, and make their current or future incomes go faster, its not just earning more money we talk about. We talk about saving money as well. It's important at the start of become financially comfortable to be sensible with money, and one big expense a large percentage of the world has, is motor costs.  So i decided on todays post to talk about the most reliable cars in the world at the moment. Good information if you are thinking of making a new purchase.

Cars made by Japanese manufacturers are still the most reliable, according to a survey by Which? Car magazine. Now this isn't really new news, most people believe jap cars to be the most reliable, whats suprising is the number of the cars that are getting good ratings.

Japanese cars took the top seven places for reliability in a table compiled after a study of 90,000 vehicles.

In the manufacturers' table, Honda came top, followed by Toyota, Daihatsu, Lexus, Mazda, Subaru and Suzuki.

Although Honda topped the makers' charts, its Civic – made in Swindon in Wiltshire – came joint bottom in the list of reliable medium size cars.

THE MOST RELIABLE CARS ARE:

Supermini: Honda Jazz/Skoda Fabia
Mini MPV: Skoda Roomster
Medium car: Volvo C30
Large car: Honda Civic Hybrid
Luxury car: Mercedes-Benz E Class
MPV: Honda FR-V/Seat Altea/VW Golf Plus
Off-roader: Lexus RX
Sport & Coupe: Audi TT/Mazda MX-5
Source: Which? Car

The manufacturers at the bottom of the rankings were Chrysler/Dodge and Land Rover – the UK firm recently sold by Ford to Indian conglomerate Tata – which were classed as "poor".

"Japan continues to show the rest of the world how to make consistently reliable cars, although the new Honda Civic shows they're not infallible," said Which? Car editor Richard Headland.

The survey reports on nearly 90,000 cars made across the globe.

The "Most reliable car brand" survey looked at cars up to eight years old while the "Most reliable car model" used data on vehicles up to two years old.

Among the marques praised included Skoda – owned by Volkswagen.

LEAST RELIABLE CARS

Supermini: Fiat Grande Punto
Mini MPV: Suzuki SX4
Medium car: Honda Civic/Citroen C4
Large car: VW Passat/Citroen C5
MPV: Ford Galaxy/Ford S-Max
Off-roader: Land Rover Discovery 3
Sport & Coupes: Mercedes-Benz SLK
Source: Which? Car

"Skoda out-performs Seat and VW itself," the report said. "So much for being the budget arm of the VW Group."

And it noted that expensive German brands, including Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz all fell into the "average" reliability category, "suggesting there's still some way to go to ensure their well-engineered cars remain dependable over the medium and long term".

Hopefully that has made for interesting reading, espically if your thinking of spending your hard earned money on a new car. It could be worth reading again, as long term it may mean lots of saved money in garage bills.

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Darling has today called for pay restraint, and it is being said that companies shouldnt give an above inflation pay rise to workers, to help there ever shrinking incomes.

Funny that as in a few days MP's will be voting on if they should give themselves a ten grand increase in their own income. SO it would seem that us normal workers should be kept skint, and struggling with our incomelevels, whilst MP's are allowed to organise themselves a nice payrise of ten grand.

And to top this off, the bbc six oclock news have just announced that energy bills are expected to rise by 40% this winter, even more money worries for us normal people.

Chancellor Alistair Darling has called for restraint in pay settlements and said there is "no doubt" the UK economy is slowing.

Speaking to the BBC, he said it would be "disastrous" if we "allowed inflation to take hold".

Rising food and fuel prices would make is a "difficult year" for consumers, the chancellor said.

He was speaking a day after consumer inflation jumped to 3.3% in May, the highest level in 10 years.

"We have got to be vigilant in relation to all pay settlements, public and private," Mr Darling told Radio 4's Today programme.

"If we get back into that [inflationary] spiral, it will take years to get out of it," he said.

It could even herald a return to 1970s-style inflation, he said.

FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME
More from Today programme

The chancellor blamed the rise in inflation on global factors pushing up the price of oil and foodstuffs.

But he said countries needed to work together to tackle the problem.

"We need to ensure that inflation doesn’t get entrenched but that we work together to deal with oil and food prices," he said.

Economy slowing

"There is no doubt our economy is slowing down," he said.

The chancellor has forecast that the economy will grow by between 2.5% and 3% next year.

However, economists are forecasting the rate of growth will be closer to 1.3%.

He said he would be looking again at his growth figures in the pre-Budget report in the autumn.

The chancellor will further examine the state of the economy when he delivers his first Mansion House speech to the City of London later.

So lets just hope that we all already earn more than enough income, as it would seem its been suggested that we shouldnt be gettiong big pay rises. More struggling ahead for poor and middle class people all over the UK. Nice.

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More income doom and gloom

A non suprisingy post on my asuperincome blog, a blog which normally promotes a happy message of people seeking additional streams of income, or a way to escape what is called the "RAT RACE" by some people. I see the benefits in both, and so I am chasing both a JOB and a RESIDUAL income stream. Trying to capture the best of both worlds, and get myself a super income.

At the moment though its a real struggle as more and more people start to feel the impact of the situation of the UK and European economy. More and more UK households have become increasingly aware of inflation over the past year (2008), and expect it to rise over the coming 12 months, new research suggests, so there seems to be no end in sight to all this.

The foreword to the Bank of England's second quarterly bulletin of 2008 says energy, petrol and food price rises have increased inflation awareness. And according to research in a bulletin article, average expectation for annual inflation in a year's time is 4.3%. This is scary, as not many people will be seein payrises that match this. And yet petrol tanker drivers are reported to have turned down a deal to increase their annual pay to £41k, yet soilders will go to war, and work in Iraq for £!6k per year, and not all of them leave the war alive. So tanker drivers strike thinking they deserve more than £41k per year, and we see a bonkers situation where one petrol station has charged £1.99 for a letre of petrol or diesel.

A scary fact is that Annual inflation stood at 3% in April, well above the government target of 2%.

At the same time, UK producer prices and costs also rose at a record pace in April.

The Office for National Statistics said that output prices for sales of manufactured products rose at a rate of 7.5% over the year. Input prices rose 23.3% over the year.

Higher food and fuel prices accounted for the rise in input and output prices, along with increases in alcohol and tobacco duties following government tax changes. Its all up up up with no end in site. How far can people's incomes last, with all this going on?? Already a large percentage of the UK has no savings, and this economy will only make this situation worse. All of a sudden the additional income streams, and the extra incomes created from a home based business, or franchise system, are becoming more and more important.

'Inflationary pressures'

The foreword to the Bank of England's quarterly bulletin, which does not necessarily reflect the views of the Bank or of Monetary Policy Committee members, points out that energy prices have "accelerated" recently. (Just in case we didn't realise!!)

Combined with current credit constraints "ultimately, both factors will act as a drag on household and corporate spending", it says.

"But in the near term, higher energy costs also add to inflationary pressures," the bulletin's foreword, written by Bank of England economist Charles Bean, observes.

It adds: "In forming its view of the prospects for inflation, the MPC must judge the degree to which businesses are likely to pass on recent sharp cost increases into consumer prices."

Many economists feel that the MPC needs to wait and see whether higher food and fuel prices lead to higher wages or lower spending in other areas before changing rates

And its not just the Uk that has been effected, throughout europe the problems are around too, read on….

Inflation in the eurozone has a climbed to a record level amid higher food and fuel costs, official figures show.

The annual rate of inflation in the 15 state zone hit 3.7% in May, according to the Eurostat statistical office.

The figure is the highest since 1996, when Eurostat started using the current methodology for calculating inflation.

There are concerns that price growth will keep accelerating, and the European Central Bank warned it will raise interest rates to slow inflation.

The rate of inflation was up from 3.3% in April, and compares with a 1.9% figure in May 2007.

Eurostat said that the main driver of inflation last month was an increase in food prices, which were up 6.4%, and transport costs, which were 5.9% higher.

Monday's figures are for the 15 nations that use the euro.

Across the European Union as a whole, the rate of inflation climbed to 3.9% in May.

So for the time being there seems to be no end in site to all this. And now more than ever before it is time for normal people, to wake up, and realise that there is more to life, than just living from pay cheque to pay cheque. Its time that people educated themselves and realised that, anyone can earn a residual income streams, and/or second income streams are possible.

Please come back and read my blog again, as I continue on my journey with my home based business.

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More money who needs it ? Everyone

From time to time I get emails from people, telling me that I am mad for doing what I do. Holding down a good job, as well as striving to get an additional stream of income flowing. Being in the young proffesional category, I am in training for my job, which soon will be nicely paid however until then, I am unable to get a mortgage or really have much spending money left, after paying all the bills etc. This of course will be familiar to a lot of people, too much month at the end of the money. So I am on a quest to build myself a super 2nd income to either match or beat my first income.

Check out this scary facts below, about the scary situation the world is in (finacially) at the moment.

 According to independent website, Moneyfacts, more than 300 mortgage deals vanished from the market in the space of just one
day last week.

• Almost 3,000 mortgage deals were withdrawn in March (the figure stood at more than 15,000 before the credit crunch hit)

• Leading lender, Nationwide has reported approvals for new mortgages are down 40% on a year ago

• Research suggests the average rate on a two-year-fixed rate mortgage has risen from 6.15% to 6.29% over the last two weeks

• Home repossessions could soar to more that 60,000 this year as families struggle to cope with rising mortgage payments

• The average house price is now around nine times average earnings, up from around four-and-a-half times 10 years ago

• Analysis of government data has suggested that families at risk of repossession are now spending over 75% of their disposable income on mortgage payments (all the families affected had disposable incomes of £1,000 or less and mortgage payments up to £750.)

Scary reading hey, average house price 9x annual earnings. This is just one of the reasons why its massively important that we all have residual income stream, that are additional to our JOB incomes. Imagine if you could start your own home based part time business, that could cover your mortgage payments, and left your wages, for you to spend. Well this is one of my targets, and I am using my home based spare time business, to start to get me close to my goal.

Check out the above link to see what one of the money making business opportunities I am involves, and if you like the sound of it, join now risk free for 14 days. If my business isn't for you then (or even if it is) then keep checking back on my site, as I will be reviewing lots of different franchises, network marketing companies, online money making methods and much much more.

I honestly don't know any reason why everyone cant create multiple streams of income. All it takes is some hard work, determination and the ability not to quit with it gets tough.

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A very quick post here, carrying on from a post I did on saving money on petrol and diesel, I have just been sent this link to petition to Gordon Brown, to lower the tax on our fuels.

A typically British way of protesting I must add, whilst over in mainland europe, they are blocking up roads, and ports, in the UK we write a petition. Ah well who knows, old Mr Brown may pay some attention, who knows.

http://www.express.co.uk/fueltaxpetition/

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Franchise information/database – Thebestof.co.uk

As part of asuperincome.com quest to educate the world in different ways of making money offline and online, the site will be displaying information, over the coming years on Franchises.

Which are one of a number of ways people use to create income streams. Franchises are bought by two types of investors. One type is what I call the active franchise owner – this is someone who buys a franchise, to run it themselves as a business and main income stream creator. Then there are what I call sleeping franchise owners – these are people who will buy and set up a particular franchise, and then employ someone else to run it. The sleeping owners use franchises more as a way to create a additional income stream.

For this Franchise database entry, I will be writting about a business franchise opportunity called Thebestof.co.uk with information on the opportunity. As with all franchises, if you are considering investing in one, please get advice from the British Franchise association, and an approved BFA lawyer. The information on this site, is for informative purposes only, and should not be consider as provided by a franchise expert.

Okay so thebestof.co.uk the business was established in 2004, and in 2005 thebestof.co.uk became a business franchise opportunity. At the time of investigation (which was some time ago) there was 1 franchisor owned outlet, and over 290 franchisee owned outlets.

The business is a local community website, and the owner company is N5 Limited, whom are based at Unit 5, Olton Bridge, 245 Warwick Road, Solihull,B92 7AH. And the website address well thats obvious.

The franchise opportunity is to own a local and operate a local website as part of thebestof.co.uk franchise. Local people run the local sites, and use it to promote local business, retail outlets, clubs and associations. The site will also contain local news, weather, cinema listings, community information and advertising. The basic idea is that local business pay thebestof franchisee for advertising on the local site. The advertising then increases traffic to the business site, which should help increase business, and local awareness of the produts or service on offer from the advertising companies.

Advertising prices start from £10 per month for a standard web-vert, and £40 for a prime spot advert. Advertises also pay a one-off £97 set up fee. Thebestof.co.uk franchisee pays the franchisor a monthly fee dependent on the number of adverts that the site runs. Franchises with 200 or less adverts pay £300 per month, and any franchise with 200 or more pay a fee of £500 a month. These monthly fees also increase at 500,750 and 1000 advertisers, the first two months of fee's are waived, as a way of helping the franchisee get started.

Initial investment for a franchise start at £9,999 plus VAT. This investment will depend on a number of factors, which for more information, anyone interested in buying a thebestof franchise, should contact the company direct to find out more. Each town can only have one franchsee, the growth of the company has been very fast since its launch as a franchise in 2005. As always asuperincome.com recommends that you do your research before investing in any franchise or business opportunity.

A lot of the franchisee's for this opportunity are said to be women, working their franchise on a part time basis from home, fitting the business in around family and every other commitment they may have.  This seems to be a  business, that people can either run full time or part time, from the comfort of their own homes. This could be a great way to create an additional stream of residual income (if advertiser's, continue to rebook the adverts) or a way to build up a full time income, running the business full time to create a main income stream.

This is a relatively low cost franchise. There is no stock to buy or hold, no employees needed or technical knowledge required. The franchise is normally worked from home, on a pc in bedroom or office, this keeps the overheads low, and gives the business a good chance to succeed early on, as the costs are low, and so if advert sales are low at first, the low overheads enable the business to continue, and then in theory as sales increase, the franchisee has more money to invest in promoting, or to reward themselves for the work they have put in.

A background in sales would be an advantage, as  the business is developed by selling advertising space.  Thebestof.co.uk hold bi monthly franchisee development days, and there is also a franchisee forum to interact with fellow franchisees. The company also offers regular dial in conference calls, which contain tips and training and support for the franchisees.

This isn't the only local community website that offers a franchise business opportunity, however it seems to be one of the most successful ones, with many people buy a thebestof.co.uk franchise.

If you are considering buy a franchise with this company, and have found asuperincome.com through an internet search, or some other means of promotion, then I hope you have found this article in someway useful. Please continue to visit this site, and feel free to put it into your favourites folder. I will be adding new franchise information all the time, as well as reviews on network marketing companies, and any other legitimate business or money making opportunity that is out there.

Soon I will even get around to completing the about me page, and will start to talk more about what I do to make money online/offline. 

More and more each day with rising petrol/food/energy bills etc, its more and more important that we create ourself income streams. I believe also in education, educating yourself is very important, people should continue to improve themselves, and make themeselfs more and more employable. For me the plan is to continue to build my career, and enjoy hopefully a long career with just one or two companies. (as long as they can live upto my ambitions!) Whilst having a career and working hard for promotions, and enjoying the benefits of the JOB lifestyle, its also important to create additional money streams. You never know what will happen, so its always good to have a back up plan.

Anyway thats the end of this Franchise database entry.  

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The Kleeneze money making home based business opportunity (MLM/network Marketing)

Kleeneze history and facts:

This is the first ever MLM review on asuperincome.com, this is one of the many UK MLM home based business opporunity. Kleeneze is a UK plc with a long and successful trading history. Their opportunity is avaliable in the UK,Ireland,Holland and Germany, and in future years in could be a global business opportunity like Amway and Herbalife etc.

The Kleeneze history is below.

Kleeneze Homecare is a multi-level marketing company, and was started in 1923, in Bristol,England. The founder, Harry Crook, had emigrated to America with his family several years earlier and while there joined Fuller Brush as a sales representative. He returned to Bristol several years later and started his business,Kleeneze initially started business as purely brush makers.

Kleeneze gradually expanded to include household consumables within its range – beginning with polish.During the war years of 1939-1945, women were encouraged to become salespeople while the men were away fighting.

The very first Kleeneze distributors were known as Boosters as they boosted brush sales. Between 1945 – 1960, Kleeneze began to expand its range to include Talcum Powder, Oatmeal Bathcubes and Chlorophyll Toothpaste.

At this point, Kleeneze was no longer simply a brush making company; the business was progressing and expanding. During the 1960s Kleeneze agents, as they were now known, were awarded self-employed status.

Between 1970-1980 Network Marketing, a concept unique in the UK, was introduced and, in anattempt to modernise the Kleeneze image, a move was made to step away from traditional brush and polish selling to aerosol and car care products.

From 1980 onwards the home shopping and direct selling phenomenon took off. Kleeneze was now solely concerned with Network Marketing and the dedication and energy of Kleeneze ‘agents’ built the foundation for today’s Kleeneze business Opportunity.

During the 1990s Kleeneze’s successful programme of incentives saw ‘agents’ flocking to thebusiness.

In 1995 Kleeneze re-launched its activities in the Republic of Ireland. Since this time, bothDistributor (as agents are now known) numbers and sales figures have grown.Kleeneze began it's European expansion in 2004, starting with the Netherlands. Since then Kleeneze has also launched it's home based business opportunity in Germany in 206.

At the same time, the company has also gone through some rough times. In recent times, the companys parent company "European Home retail" whom also owed Fair pack (christmas hampers and savings), went bankrupt in 2007, and Kleeneze was sold off to another major UK plc, Findel.

>> Findel is a UK plc, which is a member of the FTSE 250. Its a home shopping company, so buying Kleeneze makes a lot of sense. It owns a number of companies which are Nottingham Rehab Ltd (NRS), Express Gifts, Findel Education,Findel Services,Kleeneze Europe Ltd, IWantOneOfThose.com and Kitbag.com.

Kleeneze occupied the same original site for almost 80 years, but in May 2004 relocated to its new office headquarters and distribution centre in Warmley, Bristol, England. In 2007 after the acquisition by Findel Kleeneze moved to a new site in Accrington.

Two interesting facts about Kleeneze, are that 1) Kleeneze was a founder member of the direct selling association, and 2) Kleeneze is also the oldest Network Marketing or MLM company in Europe.

Making Money with Kleeneze:

The first way Kleeneze distributors make money is through what they call: Retail Profit (via Catalogue Distribution)

Kleeneze distiributors simply distribute the Kleeneze catalogue through local residents letterbozes and/or leave them with friends and family. Kleeneze distributors earn 21% – 37% on all the orders that they receive.

Typical examples that are used by independent kleeneze distributors are similar to the below:

Example:

By distributing just 200 catalogues per week, your likely total orders would be £800 per 4-week period* as the Kleeneze national average is around £1 per catalogue placed.

You earn 21% retail profit cash in hand. This is collected from your customers as you deliver their orders. Here, your income over 4 weeks would be £148 and you would then qualify for additional Volume Profit.

The second way kleeneze distributors get paid is through whats called Volume Profit. Volume profit is paid directly from Kleeneze for higher orders, starting at 6% for total orders over £764, through 8% for orders over £1528, through to 16% for £8813+ in a 4-week period.  A bonus if you like for the Kleeneze distributors who get more orders for the company.

The third way to make money from the kleeneze home based business opportunity is through the network side. Building your own network of Kleeneze distributors, by recruiting/training and support new kleeneze distributors.

Every person that a kleeneze distributor introduces to the business becomes part of their kleeneze group and Kleeneze pay them on not just on their own personal retailing, but on the total turnover from everyone in their group also. This means that once a Kleeneze distributor has built up a team to a certain size, that Kleeneze distributor gets paid whether they choose to work or not. Some Kleeneze distibutors can almost walk away from their business and still get paid from the turnover of the team, which you have built up over the months / years.

So in a nutshell thats how you can earn money with the Kleeneze home based multi level marketing business opportunity.

If your thinking about joining Kleeneze, then it always makes sense to speak to a number of Kleeneze distributors, before chosing to join a particular Kleeneze distributor.

Also look for the hidden cost of running a Kleeneze business, ask your prospective sponsor about these day to day running costs, which include replacing catalogues, when they are lost or out dated. Stationery (call backs slips, day slips etc) plastic bags to put the orders in, cost of fuel (if you use a car) cost of internet ordering (if you chose to use the Kleeneze internet ordering facility) cost of calling the Kleeneze call centre (if the number is still a 08 number).

Overal Kleeneze is a very good business opportunity, the catalogue does the selling for you, and other people will also be able to see the potential in the business. A percentage of the UK population have tried the opportunity, or knwo someone who has.

As with any business, the more you put in the more you will get out. And for the hard workers (or the lucky) the rewards can be endless.

Hope that is a useful post on the Kleeneze opportunity.

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Franchise Database – RedHot Camera

I think this is a new franchise on the block, as I cant find much about it on the internet. I came across this one in a magazine called whatfranchisemagazine.co.uk (which, I think if you visit their site, you can get free copies of)

Okay so this franchise review is on a franchise opportunity called RedHot Camera.

Minimum Investment Required for Redhot Camera franchise: £6,500
Total Capital Investment Required for Redhot Camera franchise: £31,990+VAT

RedHot camera is described as suitable for someone who wants to develop a business in the property and holiday accommodation sectors. And of course RedHot Camera will provide all the training and support to help you succed in your new business venture.

RedHot Camera say that, don't need to be a professional photographer, as we will train you in all aspects of property photography; you do need to be personable, sales and business orientated and keen to add a touch of your own creative genius to your day to day work.

The business is providing high quality digital images in a "one stop photography shop" shooting and hosting property images on the internet for practicing real estate agents.

A Red Hot Camera franchisee will provide high quality digital images, virtual tours, high resolution low level aerial photographs and interactive floor plans for practicing real estate agents. A point of differentiation for RedHot Camera will be the "one stop shop" aspect of service provision and the RedHot Camera website hosting of all commissions, the present marketplace is divided between those that shoot properties for sale and internet sites that host images. So this could be a real advantage, as the franchisee will be able to offer the full service.

As well as this RedHot Camera also say that there are many opportunities in the holiday accomodation industry and many other market places, which the franchisee would  be able to provide with the 'Sidewinder' system including surveyors, builders, developers, architects, councils, stately homes, hotel and motels, park and recreation authorities to name but a few.

What makes the RedHot Camera franchise double unique is its 'patent pending' side winder ariel photographich unit.  A special pole unit which can elevate camera equipment upto 70ft, whilst the franchisee stays firmly on the ground.

There are two packages avaliable for this franchise opportunity:

One is the "Van" package = This gets the franchisee a fully livered Volkswagen Caddy equipped with a photographic pole (known as the "sidewinder"). Including all necessary equipment, the pneumatic 70'aerial pole system and sign written, new vehicle the van franchise costs £31,900 + VAT. Dependent upon your circumstances we may be able to offer an attractive financial package whereby this franchise may be commenced for an initial capital investment of £6,500.00 + VAT.

and

Two is the "Scooter" package – which gets the franchisee a fully equipped  RedHot camera scooter. This franchise package is suitable for inner city areas.

The price of your business investment will include the following:

New Sign written Volkswagen Caddy equipped with a Sidewinder Elevated Photography System
GPS for your new vehicle
Digital SLR Camera, Flash Cards and Flash Gun
Tripod
Computer Desk and Chair
Personal Computer with Microsoft Office
Photo, floor planning and virtual tour software
Photostory with Sonic DVD and Pano2QTVR.
Filing Cabinet
Sundry Office Supplies
Approved Stationery
Signage
Initial three week training course with ongoing refresher courses

The company mention there are some franchises covered by a guaranteed income plan, and deepending on circumstances, some people may be able to get a franchise package for an initial capital investment of just £7,500 .

Other bits of the RedHot Camera franchise for the franchisee include the following:

Online invoicing, billing and tracking systems
Dedicated Research and Development team
On-going training courses 
Continuing development of systems and support
Strength of growing business nationally
Preferential consumables and equipment purchases
National Accounts – You will be responsible for billing and account collection, however the records will all be centralised through our online system.

Some brief information there, in the very first ever franchsie review/database entry on the asuperincome blog. Could this be the idea, that you will use to make money ? Is this the way out of your job? 

To find out more about RedHot Camera check out www.redhotcamera.com

This franchise database entry is to be used for information only and should not be considered authoritive. Whenever anyone considers taking out a franchise, they should always consult a British Franchise association solicitor. These can be found by visiting the British Franchise Association website

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