Starting a new business can be a daunting prospect for anyone, especially if you’ve never been in business or worked on your own before. One way to overcome this inexperience is to consider a franchise as your new business opportunity.
Many people look at the costs of purchasing a franchise and are put off. In many cases, though, the costs involved in starting a franchise business are no more than starting a business in your own name. The benefits of owning a franchise business can bring you huge advantages over a start-up business of your own.
When you purchase a franchise it brings with it the company name. Two great examples of this would be Tim Hortons and Mcdonalds. I’m sure you would agree they have far more appeal than Smith’s Coffee House or Joe’s Burger Joint. The name can be huge and immediately bring you a steady flow of business.
The franchise also brings with it expertise and resources. Being in business on your own can be very frustrating and lonely. The franchise business will have a team of experts who can advise and help with your day to day business problems, setup, management, etc. These guys can save you a lot of time and frustration with knowledge of the problems that new business owners have experienced in the past. To coin an old phrase, you won’t need to re-invent the wheel.
The franchise will also save you R & D costs as they will normally bring along new products and ideas as time progresses. You will also find that the franchisor will contribute to your advertising and in many cases will run national campaigns and create corporate web sites promoting their products, and in many cases directly promoting your franchise location.
These are just a few very brief reasons why a franchise business can work for anyone, but choose carefully and pick a business opportunity where you have the expertise and interest to work with the franchisor to make your business a success. In other words, if you have a degree in engineering and enjoy construction, selling coffee and donuts may not be the right path for you.
Tom Jacques is the owner of Hickory Dickory Decks - a Deck building company. Hickory Dickory Decks also operates as a Construction Franchise in Canada.
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Hobbyist Niches vs. Consumer Niches
Hobbyist Niches vs. Consumer Nichesby Steve JohnsonIn your quest to become the next millionaire who hit it bigpublishing a website, you will need to decide what niche yourwebsite will be marketed to. But while there are many articles thatexplain the importance of narrowing your focus into a specificniche, few actually explain the various types of niches.The two biggest types of niches are "hobbyist niches" and "consumerniches". Understanding each one will help you understand thedynamics that shape success.Hobbyist niches are "activity oriented" niches, where the majorityof the audience takes pleasure in pursuing an interest. Scrapbookingis a great example of a hobbyist niche. Visit several scrapbookingrelated websites, and you'll see two major types: sites built byscrapbooking enthusiasts simply to celebrate their hobby, and sitesdesigned to sell stuff to scrapbookers.Other examples of hobbyist niches are stamp collecting, motorcycleriding, hiking, video games, history, etc.The advantage of focusing in on a hobbyist niche, is that there arelots of people who are willing to link to your website withoutasking for anything in return. If other website operators feel thatyour website offers valuable and unique content, they will more thanlikely promote your website, either through a link, through amessage board, or through a blog, just because hobbyists like to lettheir friends know about a great website. Hence, you can spend mostof your time developing content, while the content attracts incominglinks on its own.Another advantage is that hobbyist niches can develop a largesubscriber base to a newsletter or newsfeed, as folks are alwaysinterested in knowing what's going on in their favorite hobby.Consumer niches are the opposite of hobbyist niches, in that theaudience is not interested in pursuing a hobby, but to satisfya "one-time" need. Real estate is a great example. Few people lookto buy or sell a home several times a month, unless you're aninvestor. Other examples of consumer niches are e-commerce sites(selling flowers, books, pet food, etc.), taxes, debt consolidation,legal service, and product reviews.Unlike hobbyist niches, most of the websites in a consumer niche areprofessional in nature. That is, the website owner(s) created theirwebsites solely for business reasons. Thus, these websites are notinterested in linking to your website unless there is something init for them. Interestingly, many of the higher traffic websites in aconsumer niche won't bother exchanging links with you, except maybeif you link to them from your homepage, and only if your homepagehas a high "Google PR".But one of the advantages of publishing a website in a consumerniche is that you can command very high traffic volumes, if you arewilling to put in the effort to compete. Typically, every personwill at some point in their life, need real estate help, or willneed legal advice, or will want to read product reviews for adigital camera. Consumer niches can reach out to the entire Internetaudience, whereas hobbyist niches will only reach out to a fractionof that audience.As a result, consumer niches typically enjoy the most marketingdollars. There are more affiliate programs servicing consumerniches, and more merchants buying advertising. Because of this, asmall website in a consumer niche can actually earn a high income,whereas in a hobbyist niche a website will require more traffic toearn the same income.But this is not to say that website publishers should favor consumerniches. Actually, both types are equally as profitable consideringthe amount of work it takes build up an audience, and how hard it isto compete for advertising dollars. It's actually easier to build alarge audience within a hobbyist niche, but there is typically lessadvertising money to compete for. But in a consumer niche it'sharder to build an audience, but it's a lot easier to earnadvertising money.---Resource Box:==================================================Steve Johnson has been publishing websites since 1997, and operatesClear Digital Media (http://www.cleardigitalmedia.com) an Internetpublishing and marketing business. He also authors "In Your Web"(http://www.inyourweb.com) an Internet publishing blog.==================================================
