Starting your business comes with many hurdles. While franchising helps people counter many such constraints, you may be unable to run the franchise alone. You may have personal or financial issues, which may arise a need for a partner when starting your business. So, let’s look at some pros and cons of partnership with your franchise.
Pros
Split Financing
One of the prime reasons you may decide to bring in a partner for your franchise can be to divide the financing burden. It helps you start your business without investing the entire amount by yourself. It also distributes the losses in case of an unlucky incident.
Get the expertise
You may have a great franchising idea and have finances ready to start your franchise, but you don’t have the skills to manage the business. A skilled partner could take up the role of handling the business. He will operate the franchise while you act as a sleeping partner who supports the franchise financially.
Another sort of partnership is with an experienced person. While you finance and manage the business, your partner may use their wisdom to guide the franchise to success.
Splitting of Jobs
Bringing in a partner has many advantages. One of them is splitting the jobs. Some individuals are more fit for specific roles than others. Specifying the positions can help your franchise get the benefits of specialists and utilise their expertise to run your franchise successfully.
A partner can also help with marketing. They have connections, which could be beneficial to your franchise. Your partner can help you with sales or handling customers if he has previous experience with those.
Another advantage of a partnership is that you have more brain thinking of solutions for the issues which your franchise may experience.
Cons
Profit-Sharing
One con about having a partner is that you have to divide profits generated from the business. The partners should agree on a profit-sharing ratio. Who gets how much profit must get decided first.If you manage the venture and the other finances, he may ask for a higher share, as he is risking his money.
Divided Opinion
One of the major problems in a partnership business is having different opinions between the partners. Usually, when your business partner wants to do a thing in a way that opposes how you like to do it, that leads to an issue. If unresolved, it may lead to complications in the future.
One more con may arise when the partner expects more returns from the venture. He may feel dissatisfied and may want to leave the partnership.
Are there any ways that will help you avoid any disputes with your franchise partner?
What can you do to prevent disputes between you and your business partner?
Understanding each other’s goals is important
You and your partner need to understand what the other expects from the partnership and the goals they want to achieve. Having a good understanding between the partners helps the business to prosper and avoid any disputes in the future.
Assign roles between the partners
Having roles assigned to each partner helps you avoid any disputes in the future. Each partner will have their role and will not unnecessarily meddle with other work. Delegating functions is also necessary to have a beneficial and lasting relationship, as each partner has the responsibility they have to perform.
All said, bringing a partner could be very fruitful for your franchise. You need to set boundaries on things your partner can interfere with and where he can use his authority as a partner and help with the venture.
Karan Makan
Technology Engineer and Entrepreneur. Currently working with International Brands and helping them scale their products Globally through different ventures. He owns Multiple Food Brands and is on a continuous spree to acquire many more businesses in the coming years. With over 10 years of experience and strong background in Brand Acquisition, Karan Makan is soon poised to be a Brand in the coming years.
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