This document discusses franchising as a business growth strategy and considers whether a business is suitable to franchise. It provides some initial rules of thumb to consider, such as having a proven and profitable business model that can be replicated. The document outlines benefits to franchisors, such as being able to expand more quickly with less capital as franchisees take on start-up costs, and having more committed franchisee-owned branches. It promotes The Franchise Company as being able to help determine if and how a business could successfully be franchised.