This is not your franchise. You are lead to believe that it is and that you can choose what you’d like your income to be but they ultimately require you to get to a certain amount monthly or they will take your publication from you. Either shutting it down altogether or choosing to have corporate try to run it. Problem with either is you have done all of the work ramping your magazine up and then if you don’t have the income they require, all of your contracts and income is taken from you. If the franchise belonged to you, you should be able to make how much or little you choose as long as you are able to cover your costs to produce the magazine and pay your ‘franchise’ fee.