Archive for the 'Franchises' Category

This is a press release: Entrepreneur Magazine Ranks Computer Troubleshooters Top Computer Services Franchise
Please do your own due diligence. This isn’t a recommendation or endorsement (paid or otherwise). It’s simply to alert people seeking a home based franchise of a possible opportunity. You’ll have to make that decision on your own.
Entrepreneur recently released its 29th [...]

Here’s Entrepreneur Magazine’s list of Top Home Based Franchises for 2008
Here’s their disclaimer:“This ranking is not intended to endorse, promote or recommend any particular franchise company. Instead, it’s meant to be a tool you can use while doing your personal franchise research, which should include interviews with existing franchisees, counsel from your attorney and accountant, [...]

In the “old days” franchises were for storefronts. Today they’re increasingly home based like this one. This is for information purposes only because I saw the press release.
Entrepreneur Lists Glass Doctor® in “Franchise 500″
This year Entrepreneur magazine also ranked Glass Doctor No. 86 in its list of Top 100 Home-Based Franchises. Glass Doctor trains and [...]

Franchises SHOULD make it easier to succeed. They should even allow you to run a franchise from home.
There’s just one problem, the number of franchises and “franchise concepts” is mushrooming by the day it seems. There are hundreds of potential franchises. The problem is sorting through the many options that exist. Home business service franchises [...]

He was facing a layoff – called a “redundancy” in the UK – and had to figure out how to provide for himself after 22 years of being an “employee”.
Here’s what he started looking for:
1. A Franchise
2. Brand name in the market
3. Good business owner support
4. No expensive retail location
5. Maximum @$60,000 (£30,000) investment
They ended [...]

Now that was a terrible pun wasn’t it?
According to Canada.com Lori Kerpan decided to start up a home based party plan selling pajamas. She calls her business Jammeez Pajama, Etc. Inc., but it’s no longer home based. She’s had to start getting retail space to sell her wares.
What’s she sell that made her business boom [...]

This is a franchise promotion for a UK franchise company. The guy started working from home (but not always at home). He did so well he’s now selling that home based franchise to get into something else. He was so successful, he’s having to hire staff. He can’t stand that idea and wanted to find [...]

Speaking of electronic gadgets you may not want to fix, here’s a new service that offers to fix them: Scooter Computer!
They’re based in the London, UK and their claim to fame is that they scoot up to your home or small business on a distinctively pink moped.  They charge £69 per hour, BUT if they [...]

V4Vans is a UK home based transportation franchise.
It exists because of a common problem:
V4Vans is unique in providing a one-stop-shop solution to the small businessman’s dilemma. It offers a personalised service and a choice of vehicles from almost any manufacturer – all at competitive prices or on attractive finance packages.
But for smaller buyers needing maybe [...]

Here’s a great article about some of the realistic options that work at home moms are using to get to spend more time with their children.  The corporate world we’ve created not to mention the tax structure and inflation of the last generation have taken their toll on the family. More women are seeking to [...]