Franchise Opportunities Advertising

It is amazing how many business opportunities and franchise ads say things like "no experience necessary" or "be your own boss," or both. But the reality is there is some experience necessary. You see, you need to be able to budget, manage lead people, understand customer service, and balance a check book. The reality is that most Americans can't even do that. Do you know why?

It is because we are dummying down our populations, and the twittering crowd is making it worse. Today, in our high schools we are more concerned with making sure everyone can read and do math, than understand economics, consumer credit, and money. Therefore, they end up failing in life, and going on to the public dole for all their needs. This raises the cost of our taxes to help all those people that have got themselves into their own horrific situation.

So in reality there is some experience needed and to purport otherwise is disingenuous, misrepresentative, and it is unfair advertising. Just because you finished high school and can read and do a little bit of math, and perhaps, a little writing too (if you call that chicken scratch text-messaging writing), does not mean you have the experience to run a business no matter how small; including a small business online, where you sell products over the Internet.

Interestingly enough, in every single franchise agreement that I've ever read, and most of the business opportunity agreements, somewhere in there it clearly states that your success will be based on your own business acumen. However, if you don't have any experience in business, and your personal credit is shot to hell, then obviously you don't have any business acumen at all. Thus, you have no experience. In that case most likely you will fail in any business opportunity or franchise, no matter what it is.