Buying a Franchise
Beauty Franchise Business Opportunities
Beauty is big business. By some estimates, Americans spend more than $40 billion a year to look good. Men as well as women pay for hair and skin care products, and spending on beauty services increased by 26.5% last year. Recent figures show that the average American spends $400 each…
Starting a Franchise: Is It Time to Quit Your Day Job?
Surveys routinely find that more than half of Americans want to own their own businesses — and we see even higher percentages among specific groups. For example, 64% of young Latinos see entrepreneurship as their goal. Part time franchise business opportunities offer a smoother route toward fulfilling this dream. Using…
Just One Franchise: Supporting Strategies
It’s a growing trend in employment: outsourcing tasks rather than hiring on new staff. Supporting Strategies gives franchisees a business opportunity that takes advantage of this trend. Why do businesses choose to outsource? Hiring is becoming ever more complex. Requirements for health care coverage, minimum wage increases, and employment eligibility…
Franchise Opportunities in Advertising and Marketing
TV’s Mad Men might make it look glamorous, dangerous, and extinct, but marketing is actually still an essential business service. The broad range of franchise business options listed below give you a chance to get into the ad game with a franchise that lets you help other businesses in your…
Just One Franchise: TCBY and Mrs. Fields
Just one franchise… but isn’t that two? In fact, TCBY and Mrs. Fields are both franchise business opportunities from Famous Brands International. For a limited time, they’re offering a Dual Brand Concept that lets you offer both warm, chewy cookies and cool, sweet frozen yogurt for the same investment. TCBY…
Franchises Flexing their Muscle
Some 80% of franchisees are male. No wonder plenty of popular franchises base their business models on the idea of men helping men with manly pursuits. Here are just a few of the franchises in this category. Filta Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions offers cooking oil filtration & fryer management for…
Choosing a Franchise Business Opportunity: Love or Money?
In his book Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entreprenuers, Norm Brodsky said people ask the wrong questions when they’re comparing business opportunities: I’m constantly hearing from people who have ten different business ideas they’re considering at the same time. They want to know which one I think is…
Just One Franchise: NZone
Remember those long summer days spent running and playing outdoors? Many of today’s kids won’t have those memories. According to an article from the National Wildlife Federation, children today spend more than seven hours in front of a screen and less than 30 minutes outside playing. It may be one…
Are Franchise Owners Business Owners?
A Forbes article listed 13 mistakes new franchisees make, and one of them was investing in a franchise business in order to be your own boss. “Franchising is based on conformity and uniformity,” the author said, “not freedom.” One of the great advantages of a franchise business is that you…
How Does that Franchise Handle Upgrades?
You’ve chosen a franchise business opportunity, let’s say, and you can tell it will be a great fit for you. The business systems seem ideal, the offerings are just what your community needs, and you can easily see yourself doing exactly what the franchisor describes as the daily routine in…