Starting with moms My first thought about this blog topic was that of the mother that paused her career to start a family. Her little one started Kindergarten, and she is eager to regain her professional footing. Many experience the…
Owning a franchise vs. starting from scratch
As a reader and follower of the Hundred Acre Consulting blogs, you or someone close to you has probably been knocking around the idea of owning a business. That’s great! Now, you just have to decide on what business, and…
Franchise opportunities for our Veterans
Please allow me to paint a scenario to you about a young Veteran returning home after multiple deployments in the middle east. He left soon after graduating high school, with that familiar call to service that many of our beloved…
Franchises as retirement income
Ahhhh, retirement. Beach…travel…grandkids…and everything in between, right? Then you wake up and wonder if there will be enough money for all of this. “What was I thinking? I cannot afford this!” Will you be ready? Many have come to the…
Business Coaching: your success through the success of others.
I just love a feel-good enterprise idea, and this franchise business opportunity does not disappoint. From hunter-gathering tribes of yore to today’s 21st century twitterpated techno-world, humans have relied on the sage advice of the “wise-ones” to teach, train, and…
Who likes cars?
It’s Memorial Day weekend and with it comes the opening of State Parks, ice cream shops, campgrounds, and waterslides. In general, this holiday, although one of somber remembrance, heralds the onset of summer across the United States. What better time…
This franchise is going to the dogs (and other pets, but mostly dogs)
We go today from crime and trauma clean-up in the last email to Chow and Terrier clean-up in this one. Let’s discuss Pets – the 7th largest industry in America. The Pet Industry in the U.S. is booming at over $70…
Fitness Industry Franchises
America’s Fitness Craze Are you a fitness freak? Today, one in five adults in this country have a gym membership. Adults between the ages of 20 and 64 make up this gym-going demographic and year after year, Fitness tops out…
Amazing profits abound….if you have the guts!
Still considering a Semi-Absentee Business? I’ve got an odd-yet-amazingly lucrative one that takes a special kind of someone to jump in. How about you? When you think of a cleaning company, what comes to mind? You may think of a…
Semi-Absentee Franchises: Keep Your Day Job
In the modern franchise era, semi-absentee franchises are king. From automotive to vending and all nineteen industries in between, franchise companies with models that offer semi-absentee ownership, stand out as one of the most sought-after investments, by today’s new entrepreneur.…
