Franchise Article

There was a time when it was commonplace for men to have a corporate business job and for their wives to stay at home and take care of the children. While that may still be seen as ”normal”, the push of women into the business world is a welcome and ever increasing change. With more and more women having continuous successful business opportunities, the role of their husbands is in some cases shifting to be a stay at home dad. While this is also a great opportunity, there is often a desire to generate additional income whilst staying at home and so there is a growing market for home based business that appeals to the stay at home dad and provides the flexibility to make his hours and work around school schedules. Here, briefly, are 10 great franchise options for the stay at home dad to run from the home office.

#1 AskAMI

This franchise offers advertisers targeted marketing via touch-screen kiosks in prestigious area hotels. Many people stay in hotels and are looking for restaurants, entertainment, and other such businesses. The touch screen kiosk is a modern, attractive concept that many hotels are open to the franchisee place within their facility.

#2 Cardgroup Greetings
This home-based business is a proven and successful greeting card and gift distribution franchise. In over 30 countries this franchise option is a great one if flexibility is at the top the list of desirables.

#3 XfactorDates Speed Dating
This is a flexible opportunity to offer singles events in your local area. With over 14 million singles in the UK and growing the singles market has become a £600million industry. With a proven marketing plan and advertising support this makes for a quick start-up franchise opportunity.

#5 Platinum Property Partners
This franchise option is for the serious home based franchisee that has £300,000 to invest in a proven opportunity that can be built into a multi-million pound cash positive venture. This is a buy-to-let investment franchise that has comprehensive training and support for their franchisees.

#6 Berkley Brewer
This franchise opportunity is a personal tailoring franchise that allows the franchise to manage their client’s database with a proven software system that handles all of their order status and client information. With no stock to manage, no employees, and a highly respectable business this franchise option can provide a long-term income stream.

#7 Greenthumb Lawn Treatment Service
If the type of work from home business that you are looking for is more hands-on and less behind a desk, this business for sale provides the flexibility of booking appointments and allows the franchisee to be either manager and dispatcher, or run the entire franchise whilst providing valued and sought after lawn care.

#8 Yellowtom
This business opportunity is a complete local advertising solution with multiple income streams. This franchise is all about the local connection. Managing the Yellowtom franchise is very low risk and carries with it a great connection to the local community in connecting businesses, marketing, information, and providers that are all local and unique to the specific franchise area.

#9 Matchpoint
This is a franchise business that connects individuals to franchise opportunities. A franchise itself, Matchpoint used a unique matching program that helps would-be franchisees find the perfect franchise option for them. As a Matchpoint franchise owner all that is required to operate this business is a PC, Internet connection, telephone, and professional expertise.

#10 Lasertech
This franchise offers two unique programs for future franchise owners, a management franchise with exclusive support and multi-van networks that deliver ink, toner, and printer cartridges to clients, or an operator option for those franchisees who are more suited to control their own business and work from home running a single van business.