I stumbled on an article on Yahoo! Small Business, that (again) put franchise ownership as one of 7 most overrated businesses. Kelly K. Spors and Kevin Salwen, the article writers, have conversed with small business experts to identify the overrated businesses. Other than franchise ownership, the other six are: Restaurants, direct sales, online retail, high-end…

I just read an article posted by Joel Libava (The Franchise King) about not including buying a franchise as a backup plan after someone is being downsized. Unfortunately, I do heard stories of people who put buying a franchise in the top list of what-to-do-after-you-are-being-downsized – I agree with Joel: Franchising is not for everybody.…