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TRUEPRESENCE COSMETICS - FDD UFOC ITEM 1 Detail
THE FRANCHISOR, AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS AND
AFFILIATES The Franchisor.
The Franchisor is TruePresence, LLC. For ease of
reference, TruePresence, LLC will be referred to as "we", "us" or "TruePresence" in this Disclosure Document. We
will refer to the person who buys the franchise as "you" throughout this Disclosure
Document. If the franchisee is a corporation, partnership or limited liability
company, certain provisions of the Franchise Agreement will also apply to the
owners and will be noted.
TruePresence is a Maryland limited liability company that was formed on September 30, 2003. We currently conduct
business under our entity name. Our principal business address is 250 West Pratt Street, Suite 880, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Our agents for service of process
are disclosed in Exhibit A. We do not have any predecessors.
Parents and Affiliates
Our parent company is PTL
Corporation, a Maryland corporation formed on November 20, 2007. We have no
affiliates that must be disclosed in this Disclosure Document.
The Franchise.
We offer franchises for the establishment and operation
of a business ("TRUEPRESENCE Business" or "Business") which offers a full range of
internet marketing solutions including search engine marketing, online
advertising, web design and development, email marketing, website hosting,
domain name management and other related services ("Internet Marketing
Solutions"). We will refer to the companies to which you will offer your Business''
services as "Clients"
throughout
this Disclosure Document. You will have the right to use our proprietary
methods, along with our proprietary operations manual and software which are
designed to aid in the marketing and operation of the Business. A TRUEPRESENCE
Business is licensed to use the service mark "TRUEPRESENCE" and other trademarks, service
marks and commercial symbols ("Marks"), as well as our proprietary
business methods and techniques ("Licensed Methods").
Our Licensed Methods result
from our management''s twelve years of experience in assisting businesses with
website design and development, domain name management, web hosting and online
marketing. You will have access to our marketing materials which are designed
to assist you in marketing and promoting the Internet Marketing Solutions to
businesses located within your primary marketing area. You do not need to have
a technical background to qualify to purchase this franchise, because you will
not be required to provide technical services to Clients, although you may do
so if we approve it. You will employ local marketing techniques such as
networking, conducting seminars, partnering with complimentary businesses,
advertising in local publications, marketing to local business groups and
meeting with prospective Clients to evaluate their Internet marketing needs.
Our staff will work with you
and the Clients to provide the Internet Marketing Solutions. The Clients will
be charged "retail" prices, and from the amounts paid by Clients we
will deduct a "wholesale price" for our services and, after making
other deductions described in this document, then we will pay you the remaining
amount of the fees paid to us by those Clients (the "Residual"). This system is further
explained in Item 6 of this document, on pages 6 and 8. Depending on the
solution purchased by your
Clients, they may have access over the Internet to a
customized package of website management tools that will allow Clients to
maintain and upgrade their websites by communicating directly with us.
Additional services provided by TruePresence include a team of experienced
support personnel who are available by either phone or email.
A TRUEPRESENCE Business can be located in your home or
in an office. You will be given a designated geographic area ("Primary Marketing
Area") within
which you will focus your proactive sales, marketing and promotional efforts.
Your marketing efforts must be directed at prospective Clients in your Primary
Marketing Area, although you will be permitted to promote your TRUEPRESENCE
Business to your pre-existing business contacts outside of the Primary
Marketing Area and develop Client relationship outside of the Primary Marketing
Area on a referral basis. So long as you are in compliance with the Franchise
Agreement, a copy of which is attached to this Disclosure Document as Exhibit
B. we will not allow another franchised Business to be located in your
Primary Marketing Area. See Item 12 for a discussion of your territorial
rights.
Regulations
You should familiarize yourself with state and federal
laws regulating telephone sales, Internet sales, electronic mail marketing and
facsimile transmission which may apply to some of your marketing activities.
There are also advertising laws of a more general nature that may affect your
advertising and marketing activities. Depending on the nature of a Client''s
business, you may be required to comply with laws that govern regulated
industries, such as laws protecting the privacy of financial or medical
information. You should familiarize yourself with laws and regulations that
protect intellectual property, as well as other federal, state or local laws
which may affect the operation of your Business generally. It will be your
responsibility to comply with employment, worker''s compensation, insurance,
corporate, taxing, licensing and similar laws and regulations.
Market and Competition
The market for Internet
Marketing Solutions, including search engine marketing, online advertising,
email marketing, web development, web hosting and domain management sold on a
local level to businesses is somewhat developed with a variety of competitors,
and the market is growing. As of the date of this Disclosure Document,
competition varies depending on the geographic area and the type of Client to
whom the services are offered. The amount of competition is likely to increase
as the demand for Internet Marketing Services grows. We encourage you to study
potential markets and the competition that may already exist there. You will
experience competition from other businesses, both small and large, offering
various products and services to Clients to assist them in marketing their
business through the Internet.
Our Business Experience
We have offered TruePresence franchises since early
2005.
Our affiliate, Santa Cruz
Corporation f/k/a Alabanza Corporation., offered and entered into reseller
agreements whereby resellers purchase and re-sell hardware and software
services related to website hosting, but resellers were not allowed to use the
Marks or the "Alabanza" name or marks and sell
primarily on the Internet. The reseller program began in September 1996 and in
2005 Alabanza Corporation assigned these functions to Alabanza, LLC upon forming it in 2005.
NaviSite, Inc. assumed control of those reseller agreements when it purchased Alabanza, LLC on August 10, 2007
Neither we nor Santa Cruz have offered franchises or licenses in any other line of business. We previously
operated a TruePresence Business from our principal business address but no
longer do so. Neither Santa Cruz nor International has operated Businesses of
the type to be operated by you.
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