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Buyers should not have to pay — or hand their phone number to a sales team — to understand what a franchise really costs. Reader support keeps the tools free, the data brand-neutral and the prizes funded.
Where your support goes
Operations
Hosting, data updates, the daily news feed and keeping every calculator accurate.
New tools and guides
More categories, state-by-state guides and an FDD comparison tool on the roadmap.
Hiring talent
Paying franchise writers, video creators and fact-checkers.
Promotion and prizes
Reaching more first-time buyers, and funding the Pitch Challenge and monthly quiz prizes.
Monthly tiers
Reader
- Name on the supporters list
- Supporter-only Market Pulse notes
Insider
- Everything in Reader
- Early access to new tools
- Vote on the next guide
Patron
- Everything in Insider
- Name or logo on the contest page
- Quarterly Q&A session
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