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Below is an in-depth analysis and side-by-side comparison of The WAITING GAME vs Skedaddle Press including start-up costs and fees, business experience requirements, training & support and financing options.
Start-Up Costs and Fees |
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Investment | $7,500 - And Up | $12,000 - And Up |
Franchise Fee | $7,500 | $12,000 |
Royalty Fee | - | - |
Advertising Fee | - | - |
Year Founded | 2009 | 2015 |
Year Franchised | 2011 | 2015 |
Term Of Agreement | - | - |
Term Of Agreement | - | - |
Renewal Fee | - | - |
Business Experience Requirements |
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Experience | - | - |
Financing Options |
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In-House/3rd Party | In-House/3rd Party | |
Franchise Fees | -/- | -/- |
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Equipment | -/- | -/- |
Inventory | -/- | -/- |
Receivables | -/- | -/- |
Payroll | -/- | -/- |
Training & Support |
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Training | We offer a 2 ½-day "boot camp" style training, held in Tampa, Florida, that takes you through all aspects of your new business. Each franchisee is provided a 150+ page operations manual designed to be a self-teaching tool and that takes you step-by-step through your business procedures. In addition, each franchisee is provided access to our Franchisee-Only Intranet, which provides a forum for franchisees to communicate, as well as access all forms, updates, documents, and online refresher training modules. | - |
Support | - | We actually put the paper together for you including creating ads for your clients at no cost. We can be contacted for support around the clock and there's a lot of help before you launch. |
Marketing | - | - |
Operations | - | - |
Expansion Plans |
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US Expansion | Yes | Yes |
Canada Expansion | - | Yes |
International Expansion | - | - |
JOIN ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING NEW FRANCHISES ... Are you looking for an opportunity that: Is Home-based - giving you a flexible lifestyle? Requires Low investment - less out-of-pocket? Provides Financial Independence - so you're in control? If so, then The WAITING GAME® may be the perfect opportunity for you to combine your passion for sales and a flexible lifestyle with a great way to earn a living. The WAITING GAME® is a FREE, full color, interactive, incentive-based publication that can be seen 365 days a year. It is published monthly and distributed anywhere consumers experience wait times�" doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, urgent cares, local schools, hotels, senior centers, clubs, martial arts centers, gymnastic clubs, car washes, dance studio’s and just about anywhere with a waiting room. The goal of The WAITING GAME® is to entertain and engage consumers while providing valuable incentives to visit local businesses. We strive maximize enjoyment for our readers and exposure for our advertisers. TWG was developed as a cost effective, targeted marketing tool for small business owners to effectively spend the dollars they have, in their target market (the 3-5 mile radius from which most businesses generate 80% of their customers). TWG has evolved to be an effective tool for businesses of all sizes, whether it is the only thing they do or whether it is just a supplement to their advertising program. Consumers spend an average of 45 minutes interacting with TWG and they almost always take it with them.
There are a number of license-able papers out there, but we feel we're doing something a bit different. We have 4 monthly papers to choose from that you don't typically see as free papers as they're more magazine topics. A food paper, exercise, pets, and a celebrity news paper. Readers pay a lot of money to read magazines with these topics, why wouldn't they pick up a free version? These papers aren't 2-12 pages, they're 48-62 page tabloid papers. At no cost we do just about everything for you; we create the content and format it, we insert your ads in the paper, we create the ads for your advertisers if they don't have their own, we create & maintain your social media sites, we send the completed paper to a printer near you, and we help promote your paper through local live events. You just find your own advertisers, locations to accept the papers, & pay the printer & distribute. This can be done from home. This also comes with a money back option, we will buy the license back from you at the original cost if after 6 published issues it's not working out for you. You literally have nothing to lose. Every edition has the same content and look, like syndication. You can have some original content of your own included if you wish. With cities/towns that have a population up to 100,000 people your territory is the entire city/town. Larger cities territories are broken into North, South, West, and East. So there'll never be more than 4 license holders in one city.