One of the biggest, most unique features in the game is turning your business into a franchise. By doing this, you can place your own variety of business in your friends cities and supply your various businesses via your franchise headquarters and make large amounts of money.

In fact, franchising might very well be your single biggest tool in CityVille for making a whole lot of money.

So how do you franchise?

Continue reading the CityVille tips below to learn how to build a mega conglomerate and get rich…

To build a franchise in someone else’s city, first, you need to unlock the ability to build a franchise by completing a set of missions. However, you accomplish this very early in the game, so I don’t think anything needs to be written about this.

After that, you need to have a friend who has an available empty plot (or more than one empty plot) so that you can build a franchise on it. Click on the empty plot when you’re in their town, and choose what business you want to build there. You will be prompted by the game to build one of your franchises there.

After you build your first franchise, you’ll be prompted to build a headquarters. You don’t need to build it next to a street, and it will be unaffected by any nearby decorations, so it doesn’t really matter where you build it. Your CityVille headquarters will be used to supply your franchises in friends’ cities and collect bonuses.

Each franchise will cost half as much to supply as your hometown version of the franchise does (for example, a coffee shop in your town costs 100 goods to supply, and your coffee franchise in your friend’s town costs 50 goods to supply).

One of the great CityVille tricks to make more and more money off of your franchises is to keep expanding into more and more of your friends’ cities.

Allow people to build franchises in your city as well and build more empty plots of land in order to do this as the more empty plots you build and franchises you allow, the higher the chance that your friends will return the favor for you.

The more of the same type of franchise you build in your friends’ cities, the taller your headquarters building will grow and working towards building your franchises should be your first priority.

Remember to complete missions that have to do with leveling up your franchise and building your franchise because this is what will really get you far in CityVille!