Just One Franchise: Wag ‘n’Wash
It’s no secret that many pet owners love to spoil their “children.” Wag N’ Wash markets directly to those customers who want to give their four-legged friends the best, healthiest life possible with pampering baths, toys, and healthy food and treats. The goal is a health-focused pet store that is also…
Turnkey Business Franchises
What does the word “turnkey” mean? You’ll see the word “turnkey” on a lot of franchise business opportunity materials, in phrases like “turnkey franchises” to “turnkey marketing.” Not all franchisors mean the same thing by this word, though. The term comes from the idea that you could just turn…
Garage Franchise Businesses
We’re not talking just about mechanics here, but about the garage, which can be a place where people put things with full knowledge that once it gets into the garage, it’s likely you’ll never see it again. Transforming garage space into a productive and organized extension of the home is…
Two Ways to Do Tax Franchises
It’s a sign of the season: people on street corners waving signs about taxes or words on marquees reminding us to get our taxes done. For some, it’s also a reminder about a great franchise business opportunity — tax services. A tax service can be a booming part-time business, perfect…
New Franchises for Sale
America’s Best Franchises offers the best franchise business opportunities, and that includes our New Franchises for Sale section. What will you find at our New Franchise page? Franchises that are new. Starting with a franchise early on and growing with them gives some tremendous opportunities, and a tremendous level of…
Attracting Investors for Your Start Up Business
Franchise opportunities all require some up-front investment, and most have requirements for net worth or other measures intended to make sure that you have enough capital to get through the lean times as you build your business. This is for your protection as well as for theirs, but it can…
Locavore Franchises
One of the shopping trends we’ve been seeing over the past few years is locavorism — maybe not a word that’s already in your vocabulary, but chances are good that you’ve heard of the concept. Locavores prefer to eat food produced in their local area. Often they try hard to…
Meeting Franchise Business Requirements
It’s exciting news — Starbucks is franchising. Unfortunately for Americans looking to get into the Starbucks business — you can’t. Starbucks, which traditionally has only company-owned locations and special licensing arrangements, is now looking to franchising to expand their business… but only in Europe. Starbucks began as a single store…
Just One Franchise: City Wide Maintenance
A commercial building can be a great investment and an excellent income source. It can also require lots of maintenance. There are thousands of services commercial buildings will need over time—plumbing, HVAC units, doors, windows, parking lot maintenance and striping, and more specialized services that can be hard to predict….