Is your small business profitable and growing? Do you constantly get out-of-town customers wondering when you're going to open a location in their neighborhoods? Are you secretly kind of bored running just one, smoothly operating location and want to feel the excitement of your startup days again?

If your answer to these questions is an unqualified "yes," maybe you're ready to franchise your business-the keyword is "maybe." To see if you're really in a position to franchise, ask yourself these six questions:

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