Considering a Franchise? Consider Sales Tax!
One of the advantages some franchise business opportunities tout is “No sales tax!” This typically shows up right along with home-based, no or few employees, no inventory, and low overhead as an advantage for service-oriented businesses like gyms, salons, and business-to-business professional services. This is based on the traditional distinction…
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…
Just One Franchise: Concept 10 10
Back pain is one of the most common reasons that Americans miss work, and each year half of all working Americans report that they’ve experienced back pain. 80% of us will have to cope with back pain during our lifetimes, and this discomfort is second only to respiratory infections in…
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: Teakwoods Tavern
Teakwoods Tavern is the kind of place where you can hang out with friends and watch the game, grab a quick lunch with friends from work, or enjoy a relaxed meal with your family. You can even swing by for breakfast. The franchise likes to place Teakwoods Taverns in small…
Fast Food Franchises under Fire
Quick service restaurants make up one of the largest pieces of the franchise business opportunity pie. Or cupcake, cookie pizza, burger, or dish of your choice. The appeal from a business point of view is obvious. Some 160,000 fast food restaurants serve 50,000,000 customer a day, to the tine of…
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…