It’s not everyday you find business opportunities that are rewarding financially as well as emotionally. That’s one of the many special things about Comfort Keepers®, one of the leading providers of in-home care for seniors and other adults requiring additional care. Comfort Keepers provides care services like meal preparation, incidental transportation, and companionship which enables thousands of aging adults the ability to remain in their own homes.

City Publications is a high quality lead and client generating company which produces beautiful, active affluent lifestyle cooperative direct mail pieces using 4 color glossy two sided marketing cards.

Sport Clips is a truly unique concept in the haircutting industry. Our target is men and boys, and our store design creates an exciting visual experience that will put a smile on your face.

At Huntington Learning Center our success is achieved through reaching our solitary goal: the success of the student. Our franchisees are dedicated to helping students of all levels reach their highest potential, and our corporate team is dedicated to helping franchisees achieve theirs. As we continue to expand and add centers across the country, we are actively seeking highly motivated, success-oriented individuals who share our high standards and commitment to excellence. With Huntington Learning Center you can fulfill your dreams by helping a young person achieve his. As you explore the opportunities and support we provide, you will discover we offer one of the most rewarding franchise business available today.

FASTSIGNS is one of the industry's leading sign and graphic franchises. Using a computer-based design technique, our concept emphasizes sign and graphic solutions. We offer fast turnaround, a business-to-business environment, and top-quality signs and graphics for corporate, professional and retail clients. The competitive advantages of a FASTSIGNS are as follows: high growth industry, business hours, low seasonality, few employees, business clientele, recession resistant business, highest revenue in the quick sign industry, system wide store revenue increases 14 out of 15 consecutive years, no FASTSIGN related arbitration or litigation, and protected, exclusive territories.

Party Land is the world's LARGEST international retail party supply franchise, specializing in service, selection, and savings. We are the official party staff for the new millennium and beyond.

The nation's first retail ice cream franchise, Carvel enjoys an incredible following of loyal and passionate customers. Carvel retail stores offer a full line of ice cream products including soft serve ice cream, hand dipped ice cream, ice cream cakes and ice cream novelties

$AmeriCare Alliance answers the needs of the greatest demographic shift in the history of the US by providing a national franchise system of non-medical home care services to seniors, post maternity, childcare and surgical clients at a fraction of the costs of institutional or medical facilities.$

Foot Solutions provides a much needed service to the rapidly growing percentage of people who experience sore and tired feet. We specialize in computer foot scanning to make custom insoles and orthotics. This advanced technology ensures a perfect fit, enabling total comfort and maximum performance. We also provide a complete line of foot care products that help the feet in every way, whether at work or at play.

Mr. Handyman is the solution to today's fix-it problems for millions of time-starved families. Our franchise caters to homeowners and commercial customers needing property maintenance and repair.

American Ramp Systems, the leading U.S. Company specializing in modular steel ramps is the only national company that provides in home estimates and ramps to purchase or rent.

The Sonoma Coffee Cafe system is designed as a simplified, turnkey package, offering the franchisee a cost savings of $50K-100K compared to other coffee franchisors.

Since 1989, NaturaLawn of America continues to be the only nationwide natural, organic based lawn care franchise providing a safer and healthier alternative to traditional chemical lawn care services. As the original innovator of organic-based/biological products and services to the United States, we have become the recognized leader in our industry. Our exclusive and proprietary line of organic-based products addresses the increasing concern to protect and preserve our environment. This ever-growing concern about our environment provides our franchisees a unique and powerful marketing difference within the lawn care industry. The franchised business will be a lawn care service that utilizes organic-based/biological treatments instead of high soluble salt fertilizers. Your primary service will be lawn care to residential, commercial and government-owned properties.

Full Pet Care including Overnight Pet Boarding, Doggie Daycare, Spa and Optional Grooming Salon Services.

This system is one of the best kept secrets in business ownership today. It allows the business owner to develop a large business within a relatively short period of time with an extremely high success rate.

As a leader in the wireless and satellite TV industries, Wireless Toyz is committed to offering our customers the largest variety of cellular/wireless and satellite services available in one customer friendly location, staffed by the knowledgeable and professional wireless experts.

Certa Pro is North America’s largest residential and commercial painting company in a huge $100 billion dollar industry with very little competition. Certa Pro targets assertive leaders (not painters) to operate a multimillion dollar business. Franchisee focus on the business, not in the business to oversee marketing, sales, operations and profitability.

Budget Blinds train’s individuals to own and operate a home-based business that sells and installs window coverings, via a well-equipped mobile showroom.

Crestcom franchisees market and deliver training in the areas of sales, customer service, leadership and management development. Crestcom uses a unique combination of video instruction and live facilitation to teach these skills. Crestcom is an internationally-renowned business. The Crestcom Video Faculty has included many of the world's leading business experts, including Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Harvey Mackay, and Lisa Ford. Crestcom training works because it changes behavior, through a 12 month program with defined goals after each session. The company is active in 50+ countries and Crestcom’s materials are translated into 20+ languages. Crestcom offers a comprehensive support system for franchisees.

As a Zen Massage center franchisee you will carry little to no inventory, invest a minimal amount of money and be the first in many cases in your market with the concept that everybody's talking about.

At Robeks, our passion is to help people lead active and healthy lifestyles by offering a full menu of the highest quality nutritional food products and supplements. Our blended-to-order fruit smoothies, fresh-squeezed juices, healthy sandwiches, salads, soups and baked goods - and a proprietary line of premium nutritional boosts - have made us the upscale choice for healthy and active consumers in Southern California for years.

Victory Lane Quick Oil Change is the most exciting quick lube opportunity in the U.S. today.

Fantastic Sams is the largest full-service hair care franchise, with nearly 1,400 salons represented throughout 4 countries. Our full-service salons offer quality hair care services for the entire family, including cuts, perms and color. Being a full-service salon means our owners benefit from a wider range of revenue sources and a higher average ticket per customer than our competition. By catering to men, women and children, we do not limit our business to only one segment. Fantastic Sams is proud to have its own line of professional hair care products, available only in our salons, thus creating an additional revenue opportunity for our owners.

Matco Tools is a manufacturer of quality professional automotive equipment, tools and toolboxes. Our product line now numbers more than 100,000 items. Our Franchisees distribute nationally branded products and are supported by a proprietary software program to assist them to professionally manage their business.<br>Matco Tools is a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), a Fortune 500 company and rapidly expanding conglomerate in many industries, including tools, environmental and industrial process and control markets. Matco began operation in 1946 and, since 1979, we have sold our products directly to professional technicians, automotive, truck, aviation and marine repair facilities through a network of independent franchised mobile distributors.<br>Our franchisees work from home and service pre-established customer bases in exclusive territories. Customer contacts are completed weekly and Franchisees enjoy a Consultive relationship with their customer bases. Matco operates in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada.

Intelligent Office is a smart new alternative to traditional offices and executive suites that combines the benefits of physical office space with the flexibility of virtual office solutions. This enables Intelligent Office customers to work from home, out on the road, or wherever else their businesses take them while promoting a polished, professional image of themselves and their businesses. Intelligent Office gives you a full spectrum of address and mail services. Office and conference rooms are available for rent by the hour, day, week or long term lease our professional telephone answering service provides business men and women with a dedicated phone line with voice mail and a receptionist to answer and screen their calls. Calls can be seamlessly connected to Intelligent Office customers putting them in the office wherever they are.

Express provides a full line of staffing services (temporary, flexible, evaluation hire, direct hire, and professional/contract staffing) and HR Business Solutions to individuals and businesses in nearly 600 locations in the United States, Canada, and South Africa. Express provides a sales-focused, business to business opportunity in one of the top ten fastest growing industries in the US. Our franchise model allows you to develop a professional business coupled with the ability to maintain a balanced lifestyle and build a solid, scalable, equitable business. Our mission is to help as many people as possible find good jobs by helping as many clients as possible find good people. Express employs more than 336,000 people and serves more than 30,000+ clients annually.

Navis is the leading provider of specialized packaging and global shipping for fragile, large, awkward, valuable and irreplaceable items. Businesses depend on Navis to meet their packaging and shipping needs in ways no one else can.
Navis has developed a way to fill the gap between the retail mail and parcel centers and moving companies, in a niche market, with very little competition. In fact, moving companies like Nationwide, and carriers like UPS are not their competition - they refer customers with specialized shipping needs to them.
This unique, B2B, company has a fairly low investment, strong margins, few employees (2 to start), regular business hours, and is in a niche market with very little competition.

Maaco represents a great business opportunity in an area where there is no national competition. Maaco is the leading auto painting and collision repair franchised chain in the aftermarket industry. We hold a 47% of the lion's share of the $1 billion auto painting market and have serviced over 15 million vehicles since inception in 1972.Our chain represents 500 privately operated centers located throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Our operating system has led franchise owners to success for more than a quarter of a century. Previous automobile experience is NOT necessary.

ServiceMaster Clean is a business-to-business management business where our franchise owners' employees clean business offices, health care facilities, doctors' offices, retail facilities, schools and government buildings on a daily or 2-3 times a week basis. This cleaning includes dusting, vacuuming, hard floor maintenance and carpet cleaning and maintenance. The owner is in charge of marketing and sales, pricing and quotations, customer service and administration.

SERVPRO is a national leader in cleaning and restoration services. SERVPRO's niche is the insurance restoration market, which accounts for a large portion of the diversified mix of residential and commercial services. SERVPRO franchisees provide professional residential and commercial cleaning, deodorization, and restoration of premises and content damaged by fire, flood and other causes, as well as other related services.

News and Information About Franchising

Franchising over the past few decades has proven to be the most successful way to start a small business. Franchising has shown a 92% success rate after 5 years, with a consistent 90% success rate through 10 years. Research has shown that over 50% of independent start-ups fail in the 1st year, with another 50% of those failing within the first 5 years.

The RCF 50, a stock index of 50 publicly held Franchises has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 for the past seven years by a cumulative rate of over 82%!

The difference in a Franchise start-up is that the Franchisor has already eliminated most of the roadblocks that you would have encountered on your own. The Franchisor will train you in all aspects of the business and continue supporting you throughout the life of your agreement to ensure you are successful in your business venture. You also have the possible benefit of Brand Recognition which alone can drive customers to your establishment.

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Types of Franchising

Product Distribution

There are two basic types of Franchises. The first and oldest type of Franchising is Product Distribution. This is a license to market and sell a manufacturers product in a defined territory. The Franchisor grants the Franchisee the right to use its Logo and Trademarks but typically does not provide operational guidance. Ford Motor and Singer Sewing machines are credited as two of the oldest Distributorships in America. Manufacturers like Pepsi and Exxon are also considered Product Distribution Franchisors.

Business Format Franchising

Business Format Franchising is the most common form of Franchising today and the area that Strategic Acquisitions specializes in advising its clients. Business Format Franchisors not only license their Franchisees to use their trademarks, logos, and products, they also support them by providing initial marketing and operational training, on-going support and marketing, and the benefit of a peer network of Franchisees to discuss best practices and experiences. Business Format Franchising provides the Franchisee with the benefit of Brand (name) recognition and a consistent customer experience that will attract clients to use its services and purchase its products.

Franchising has proven to be a very effective way of reducing risk by utilizing a proven method for doing business. Franchises are offered across a vast array of industries and investment levels. Successful Franchises are available across the globe that meets your objectives for revenue, lifestyle, and personality.

In 2001, there were 767,483 domestic franchise businesses operating with an approximate revenue of $625 billion and employed almost 10 million people. These businesses accounted for 56.3% of the total quick service restaurants, 18.2% of lodging, 14.2% of retail food, and 13.1% of full service restaurants.

10 Most Popular Franchising Opportunities According to USA Today
Automotive	Building and Construction
Business Services	Fast Food
Lodging	Maintenance
Restaurants	Retail
Retail - Food	Service

Franchise Arrangements

There are two basic types of Franchise Arrangements, a single unit franchise and a multi-unit franchise

Single Unit Franchise

A Single Unit franchise agreement is where the franchisor grants the rights to the Franchisee to open and operate one location.

Multi-Unit Franchise

A Multi-Unit franchise agreement typically comes in two forms, an Area Development and a Master Franchise.

Franchise Financing

Financial institutions recognize the success of Franchises and are therefore more willing to lend money for franchise ventures than they are for independent start-ups. Some Franchises even offer their own financing and we can also offer options for financing.

Government Regulation of Franchising

The Federal Trade Commission and many States regulate the Franchise industry to protect consumers from the unethical behavior’s that affected the industry back in the 70’s. Of course a good Franchise Attorney should always be integral in your evaluation of a franchise.

Franchise Selection and Acquisition Consultation

To start your search for the ideal Franchise to meet your objectives, contact us by going to the Franchise Consultation request form.