Philippine Information Agency:
Want to go into business? Consider franchising.
This was one of the options offered to participants of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-sponsored Basic Entrepreneur seminar as part of the “A Responsive and Innovative Strategy for Entrepreneur,” (ARISE) program of the agency here.
“With a franchise you don’t need to promote your product [...]

Moms Can Make Millions:
After her son was born, Lisa Druxman wanted to stay home with her kids, but she still needed a full time income.
One day while walking with her baby in his stroller, she had an “ah-ha!” moment when she realized she could start a business teaching classes that helped other moms get back [...]

Inc.com:
By his own admission, Paul Mann used to be a corporate stiff. Sure, he had a successful career, as CEO of Informative, a technology company that he co-founded in the late 1990s, but he hated putting on a suit and tie and trudging to the office every day.
All that changed — almost by accident, Mann [...]

Franchise Key:
Franchising can be the key to success for a business, but is the franchisee a real entrepreneur? The franchisor has created a concept; but what about the franchisees who are using it locally?
What must be judged is the capacity of creating wealth and assuming risks. Turnover and risk are two indivisible aspects of the [...]

Franchise Wire:
“I came from an entrepreneurial family of small business owners who were used to facing challenges,” says Allison Rolph, a co-owner of MEDIchair Trent along with husband Ron Seiderer. Rolph and Seiderer both felt compelled to own their own business that combined retail and the opportunity to help make a difference in the lives [...]

USA Today:
Have you always dreamed of owning your own business, but think starting a business from scratch is more than you can handle?
Are you fed up with your job? Or, maybe you can’t find a job. Perhaps you are one of the many folks that have been laid off and you’re still trying to decide [...]

PR Web:
Senior Helpers, a provider of home care services to seniors, has recently launched a new website, detailing their franchise business opportunities. Senior Helpers partnered with Blue Water Media in the design and development of the website.
The senior home care market is growing every day in the US and worldwide, as baby boomers are [...]

Marketing Treasure Hunt:
The Value of Franchise Opportunities to Entrepreneurs
Congratulations for being one of the people who have realized what it would really take to succeed in this world. What does this mean? Well, you are one of the people who have realized the fact that entrepreneurship is the true answer to success.
Most people nowadays think [...]

Franchise Business Opportunity:
For many entrepreneurs, one of the hardest parts of purchasing a franchise business can often be the simple act of deciding which franchise to go with. It sounds like a small step in the process, but it’s the part of the process that costs the most money and the one decision that everything [...]

Article Zuiwahe:
A healthy and growing franchise (no matter in what area) increases the chance for success if it has a well-known name and brand. The more widely recognized name, the more likely it is that customers will be drawn to it. And that is positive for you as a new franchisee.
Purchasing a franchise is like [...]

FranchiseTalk:
While companies continue to invest millions to ensure their image is more dominant than the competition, leading sign and graphic franchise, FASTSIGNS(R) International, Inc., is seeking motivated franchisees to join its continued expansion into the Western U.S. The franchisor will join more than 150 franchise systems at the West Coast Franchise Expo (WCFE), Nov. 7-9 [...]

Business Daily Africa:
It is a common scenario, one wanting to have it all at once or someone wanting to own a successful restaurant that makes the best burgers in town or has the best coffee on that street.
Whether its Wool-worth’s, Steers or even a Chicken Inn outlet, more investors are on the lookout to [...]

Springwise:
Although video games and laser tag are a popular choice for kids’ parties, getting the kids to venues can be more hassle than it’s worth. Back in January, Texas-based Games2u stepped in to solve this problem with its mobile video game theatres—self-powered, climate controlled trailers that house X-Box 360, Wii and PS3 systems, enabling up [...]

Business:
Dog Training
Canine Dimensions In-Home Dog Training is an exceptional opportunity to start and sustain a lasting dog-training business that addresses the needs of busy people who don’t want to have to give up their unruly dogs. Unlike many work from home trainers, Canine Dimensions franchisees work with the dogs in the customer’s home, providing humane [...]

IFA:
Did you know that more then 46 million people are ready to take a cruise? That’s how many potential new cruisers there are in North America according to Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) studies. And YOU can earn commissions by arranging these cruises for your friends, relatives and business associates. You can join an $11 [...]

By Ryan Arsendatama - Small-biz-advisor:
If you require funding and advice while opening a small business, a small business franchise may provide an excellent opportunity for you as an entrepreneur. It offers virtually endless advantages to the entrepreneur. Some of the major advantages that you can enjoy through such franchising include brand recognition, employee or management [...]

Sydney Morning Herald:
You can never be too young to start learning the principles of entrepreneurship. That’s certainly what parent Cameron Reilly thinks. When one of his twin boys, Taylor, fell in love with an iMac computer he also realised how long it would take to save up his $7-a-week pocket money to buy one. To [...]

Triangle Business Journal:
A Valley-based serial entrepreneur has launched a new franchise concept called Firestorm 24/7.
The concept is focused on a franchise-operated general contracting and restoration firm.
The company is being launched by the founder of Massage Envy, John Leonesio. The firm is to be led by Jack Hanks, president and chief executive and Lance Buck, vice [...]

Real Business:
First, a definition. Business format franchising is ‘a commercial relationship whereby one party allows another to operate clones of a proven business system, and provides initial and ongoing training and support in doing so, in return for initial and ongoing fees’. So, if you have a business, which can be operated as a branch [...]

Chicago Tribune:
On the way to launching a profitable food-service business, Chicagoan Eric Paul Meredith worked as an employee at four major corporations.
In between, he tried his entrepreneurial hand at real estate, dry cleaning and a restaurant, but he was short on capital and expertise.
This time, though, Meredith is confident his healthy-meal delivery business, AlterEatGo.com, [...]