Welcome to ConnectMe, powered by Franchise Navigator, and congratulations on taking the most important step towards self-employment in your own business. The Franchise Navigator Franchise Business Survey is the only market-validated profiling tool available in franchising! Thousands of people just like you have taken our survey to better understand their skills, values and needs as it relates to business and franchise ownership.

We started using the survey tool in 1998, after almost 10 years of research. We learned through our consulting arm, Franchise Architects, which was founded in 1980, that a company could have the best business model but if it is sold to the wrong person, it won’t work as well as it could. Selling to the wrong person creates a "mismatch" of an individual to the skills, values and behavior of what is necessary to execute the business model.

We developed the survey tool as a way to benchmark and compare prospective owners to the highest, successful performers within any given company.

So far, we have surveyed almost 20,000 existing and prospective business and franchise owners from over 150 different organizations. We will match you to the high performers of these companies. If you resemble the high performers, have the right amount of liquid capital and your geographic preference is in an area the company wants to grow, an effective match is made.

Don't be fooled by other companies that claim they also make a match. According to Webster's Dictionary, "a match can only occur when someone or something resembles someone or something." If a company promises you a match but has not done the benchmarking and research as we have, it just is not a match. Don’t believe the hype!

The Franchise Business Survey will take you less than 10 minutes to complete. It asks you:

		About your personal skills, values and needs,
		Where you would like to own and operate your business or franchise, and
		How much liquid capital you have for investing in your business or franchise.

Your responses to these questions will then be automatically calculated and compared to the high performing franchise owners of quality organizations – to help determine which types of businesses and franchise opportunities might be most appropriate for YOU. Further, we‘ll match your geographic preference and liquid capital to ensure the right match occurs. You’ll be redirected to your own personal profile on Franchise Central, where you can view your matches, download a Personal Profile Report along with your free copy of the Franchise Success System workbooks. You will also receive an email that will contain the organizations and opportunities you match to. Each company will also receive your information and will be contacting you shortly!

(If you elect not to be redirected to Franchise Central you will receive an email which will provide you with your own USERNAME and PASSWORD to gain entry into a Control Panel where you can return as often as you would like.)

Just click on each tab section and follow the survey instructions. Make sure the large green button appears, indicating you have answered a question. As you complete the questions, simply click on the next tab section. When you are satisfied with the answers you have entered on the entire survey, please click on the Submit tab, and then click Send on the bottom of the page to forward your information to us. Once you are on the Franchise Central site, you can even request to be connected to professional resources that can assist you in your business and franchise search.

A reminder: your information is confidential and will only be shared with the franchisors and professionals you request. This is a survey and not a test - as there are no right or wrong answers. Please respond as honestly as possible.

Enjoy ConnectMe and Franchise Central! We're certain you're going to find this process interesting and informative. Don't forget to keep logging back on to Franchise Central as we are always adding new franchise and business opportunities.

The odds are one of them might be the right one for you!