The event is free to enter and open between 9.30am and 4.00pm and visitors will find 35+ innovative, inspiring and proven franchised business formulas – handing you a safer and supportive way to start your own business.

And all exhibitors have licenses available for the Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Peterborough & Coventry areas and beyond throughout the Midlands & East Anglia.

The event is a one-stop-franchise-shop for the general public – and the shows are hosted with a smile. The shows are unstuffy, relaxed and informative…and somewhere amongst the exhibitors you’re sure to find your perfect business format.

And even better, you don’t have to slog into Central London or Birmingham to see it (nor have to take a bagful of one pound coins for parking)

• Free entry
• Free car parking
• Easy to find venue signposted from the M1 junction 21

And once here, you can browse the businesses on offer and take in “drop-in” workshops advising on finance and start up enterprise including advice on marketing from Alastair Campbell of the Ideal Marketing Company.

Are you looking for that new challeng? Then we’ll see you in at Leicester Racecourse, Oadby, Leicester and we’ll hand you the keys to a new self employed career

East Midlands Franchise Show – Leicester
Saturday 25th June 2011
9.30am – 4.00pm

FREE ENTRY – NO TICKET REQUIRED – FREE CAR PARKING

Leicester Racecourse Conference Centre, Oadby (4 miles south of Leicester city centre)
SAT NAV Post Code:  LE2 4AL

For more details, visit here

http://www.thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk/news/card-ve-got-hundreds/article-3194175-detail/article.html

Here is what Steve says, starting with a few words from Mick Jagger

“If you start me up
If you start me up I’ll never stop.”

~ Rolling Stones

Pick a project and just start.

Starting is everything. It takes us out of thinking and fear that comes from thinking. Fear can only come from thinking.

Owners of the human spirit dream all day long and turn each dream into an action plan.

Victims only dream at night.

“Those who dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity,” said T.E. Lawrence, (Lawrence of Arabia), “But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.”

“The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.”

~ Robert J. McKain

Do the hardest thing, the scariest thing, the worst thing first.  Then watch how lightly you fly through the rest of the day.  Doing the first thing first then becomes a habit that gives you wings. Brian Tracy talks about it in ‘Eat that Frog’.  doing the worst but most important thing first sets you up for a successful day.

Steve Chandler says:

What would I not feel like doing right now?  What don’t I feel like doing? That is what I will do.

Where are my impulses leading me?  What pleasure draws me near? That is where I will not go.

Instead, I will glance down at my index card.  What does it say?  It has what I’m up to written in simple terms. Given what I’m up do, what would be a bold and courageous move right now?  That’s what I will do.

Buy yourself some index cards. Write your purposes and commitments on them.  When lost in a moment of hesitation, return to them. Let them call your plays in life. Let them be your cue cards.

East Midland Franchise Show June 2009

I am delighted to have been asked back to talk at the East Midlands Franchise show.  The event takes place at the Leicester Racecourse on Saturday 20th.  My slot will be in the morning and if you are considering setting up on your own but want the security of working within a franchise than it may make good sense.

This year the organisers are thinking about people who have been made redundant as the following news release indicates.

Redundancy need not mean Redundant – say Franchise Show organisers

As more of us begin to revaluate career options with lingering uncertainty in the workplace, starting up your own business – via a franchise – has long been a route considered by individuals looking to re-invest redundancy pay off.

And most franchising companies will tell you that, although a bolt out of the blue, being made redundant can be the making of you. You could well end up happier, and better off, than someone else’s wage slave.

But are those claims slick sales talk from franchise companies who want you to invest in them? Or is there hard evidence to reassure those who do lose their job that using their pay off to fund a business will “pay off”?

Well the organisers of the East Midlands Franchise Show, arriving at Leicester Racecourse in Oadby on June 20th, claim that 9 out of 10 franchisees report profitable business a couple of years into their licence.

And to reinforce the point, the low level of commercial failure is something that the high street banks have picked up on. In this immediate post credit crunch era, some high street banks have even set up specialist franchise teams keen to invest in what the have judged a “safer bet” – and offer preferential banking terms too

So if the worst happens, why not just set up alone? Why not use the capital you would have to pay the franchise fee and instead launch your own copycat idea?

Marcus Remfry, of franchise show organisers Job Done Marketing, gives as good an explanation as any;

“A good franchise will have a good brand, strong national marketing, good support for the new franchisee and most of all – a ready made, proven manual of how to run the business. None of that is there for a stand alone new business.

Those factors make franchising work. It is a far safer bet for the new business owners to succeed – and make their investment work for them

In addition, the clue is in the attitude of High Street banks. Cutting back on almost all forms of lending is in the news constantly, but some have set up specialist franchise teams to invest in, what they see, as a safer business opportunity”

So if you are one of those facing the push from work, it may just be the push you need to succeed. There are five million self employed Britons working today – and in times of economic slowdown, that tally could rise. Considering all career options – including creating your own career in your own company – is one avenue many will consider more and more.

Background:

The East Midlands Franchise Show 2009 takes place on Saturday June 20th at the Leicester Racecourse Conference Centre, Oadby, 4 miles south of Leicester city centre.

The show is free to attend – no tickets required – and there are specialist career and start your own business seminars taking place throughout which are also free to sit in on.

There are 36 exhibitors with full and part time business opportuntites on offer – a list of whom is available online at www.eastmidlandsfranchiseshow.co.uk.

What I always find interesting about these lists is how some things which seem harmless to me WILL cause offence in others.  Also how some very uncontroversial products of service will rely on sex or violence to sell. Judge for yourself at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8020881.stm