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Submitted by dwyadog on Wed, 2008/01/09 - 17:31.
Hello All,
Just wanted to ask if anyone had any experience with the Coffee News franchise. Seems like a pretty solid set-up and the start-up costs are low. I don't want to jump into that segment on my own and Coffee News seems like a good choice.
There are currently no Coffee News franchises in my area but there is a Tidbits newspaper franchise active in the area. Do you think two products that are similar would work in a metro area of about 300,000 people? Thanks
Dan
Coffee News
Coffee News in the Blue MauMau franchise directory. But all we know is that it is a home-based publishing franchise.
Anyone know anything about this franchise system?
Coffee News vs. Tidbits Franchise
I've checked into both Coffee News and Tidbits Franchises and the two are similar ideas, but Tidbits appears more publisher friendly (i.e. you can add your own content, increase the number of pages, etc.).
Coffee News seems much smaller in what you can do with it. You need to own several it would seem to make a good living. With Tidbits they expect you to earn net over $100,000 a year after your first year with one paper. Also, it's more like a newspaper as in you get comics, games, sports articles, home improvement, etc. Most people run it on a full color newspaper tabloid and some run it on a 11x17 sheet folded over similar to Coffee News.
You can check them both out here:
http://www.TidbitsWeekly.com
http://www.CoffeeNews.com
If you get any more information, please let us know!
Re: Coffee News vs. Tidbits Franchise
Not sure about Cofee News but the Tidbits Franchise cost is around $8500 - $9500 for a pretty big territory (about 250,000 - 300,000 population I was looking at). They both cost about $75 a week for your content (with Tidbits that includes all your games and puzzles and features).
-Dan
Coffee news
I Owned 2 of the coffee news franchises and it's limited to about 40,000 people per franchise so I had to buy 2. Tidbits would sell me 300,000 people for 8,500 - so it's 1/2 price. Plus you can do things with tidbits whereas coffee news was strict. We wanted to add suduko and they had a fit. I sold both of my coffee news and am now looking at tidbits. It was hard to sell ads in coffee news as I didn't get many "big companies" but tidbits from what I see has car dealer ads etc - bigger companies HAVE MONEY!