Franchise Business - A Place to Start

One of the most popular ways of making money is by acquiring your own franchise. Tens of thousands of people all over the world have successfully set up their own franchise business and make a good living out of the profits that are generated from it. The advantages of a franchise business in many cases far outweigh the setting up of a business from scratch.

To start a business without enormous funds to invest is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to many people. This is what prevents so many businesses from being started. With a franchise, you only need limited investment and the lots of hard work to get your self-employed status established as a money earner.

It is certainly worth looking into as there are always thousands of franchise businesses looking for new owners, but where to you start?

The best place to look is in a Franchise directory, this of course is where Franchise businesses would look to advertise naturally. Franchise Opportunities are one such directory that does just that. They are in fact the Internet's biggest directory of open opportunities for franchise and other business opportunity listings.

Being the biggest means that they have a diverse array of franchise businesses at all levels of investment. So whether you are looking for a multi-million pound industry or just a little sweet shop, you will find it there. Finding the right business is important and this is an excellent place to start hunting.

There is also some good advice and tips to help you find the right business with stories from others who have taken the plunge. This is all very useful to anyone considering the franchise route.

100% Profit From Renting Out Private Parking Spaces

Do have a garage or parking space not use use and live in a built up area? If you do , there is money waiting to be earned.

This is really quite easy and thousands of people are just letting money go by the wayside by not doing anything about it. If you don’t use your drive during the day then you can have your drive or garage earning money for you at home while you are at work.

Getting a client to pay for you parking space or garage is really quite easy. You have a space that is in demand and there will be people looking for parking spaces so take look in the local press under 'wanted'. You may have business just waiting for you there.

A free ad in the local supermarket, business people often pop in there to by there lunch or shop before driving home. It only take a minute for the ad to be placed, make sure it stands out from the crowd of cards displayed by putting a coloured border around the card.

Put a poster, sign or banner on a wall or on your garage door where it can be seen by people driving pass. This is probably the most effective from of getting business as it will be seen by drivers, probably driving slowly past looking for a parking space anyway. Make sure it is big enough and proud enough to be read from a distance.

Word of mouth, you must have businesses nearby, pop into each business and tell them you have a parking space to let, if they don't want it they may know someone else who does. Don't be scared of showing your face and letting people know about it on a one to one basis. Again, this is a very effective way of getting business.

You may wish to pay for advertising, this then opens many doors to attract business and the money invested will probably be repaid in the first week of someone renting your parking space. Good business sense at the end of the day.

So, how much can you earn? More than you think, just look at local parking fees in your town and work it out from there. Don't just sit on a gold mine, make it work for you, not overheads, 100% profit what other businesses offers that?

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Directory Listing Sites - Once Set Up Relax

There are many ways to make money with a website ,but one of the easiest is by setting up a directory listing website. As with all websites you have many choices of sites types to choose from. You can start from scratch or get a site that is already designed on a directory format ready to go. It very much depends on whether you want to put your own work in to start with before it is ready to take on site listings.

You can also choose a general directory for all types of sites or choose genre in which to work in, i.e. food and drink, travel, business, photographic sites etc. It is very much up to you which way to go on this but you must be quite clear on this before you start as it will be difficult to change once you have got it going.

The whole idea behind this type of moneymaking scheme is to create a directory and charge suppliers to be listed. It is usually done in two ways. One is to simply list and charge for every application or you can list every site for free and charge for an enhanced listing. Again both system has its good and bad points, it is just a matter of you deciding which you feel happier with bearing in mind that listing every applicant will take up a little more time to administer.

The secret like any other site is to get people to visit your site. No traffic, no business and there again is another choice you have to make whether to work really hard at promoting your site or pay for third parties to promote it. Either way the amount you earn on the submitted fees from sites is commensurate to traffic coming onto your site.

The beauty of directory listing is that once it is set up and running, there is not much involved in terms of keeping it ticking over other than processing applications and general, tweaking and updating. As long as your traffic continues to stream in you will have an earning site for very little work involved.