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Franchise descriptions and interviews with top management and franchisees.

Moansan: The Business Opportunity for Animal Lovers

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Moansan is the unique provider of ProVetLogic sanitation products. The company started in 2009 as a developer of continuing education for the veterinary medical industry. ProVetLogic has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized providers of educational programs and product solutions for the professional animal care providers nationwide.

Moansan provides education for the animal care industry, including vets, shelters, hospitals, zoos, stables, groomers, kennels, boarding, and trainers. The annual turnover in the professional animal care industry is 25% to 30%, and the cost of training a new hire employee can range from $4000.00 to $6000.00. Providing training to new-hire employees and continuing education to existing employees can be both costly and time consuming. But have no fear, Moansan is here! The ProVetLogic Educational Support Team has created and offers a variety of educational support options including free online educational coruses, onsite “Launch & Learn” programs, training manuals, and online Q & A support.

Moansan has a mission: to make the animal world a better place through education and through the introduction of products that are designed to create a safer and healthier environment for animals and their care providers. They are clearly doing something right – Moansan now has a 90%+ brand recognition with veterinarians in the animal care industry.

How can you become a part of this successful business? Moansan is a licensed/distributor business, which may be as small as one vehicle or as large as 50 or more vehicles. If you are looking to work in the animal industry and have a love for animals’ well-being, it is worth considering owning a business in the world of preventive animal health care. If you are currently engaged in distribution of products or services for this industry and would like to participate in these new technologies, large scale opportunities are also available. High margins from distributor wholesale to retail (40-50%) make Moansan a very profitable business with positive cash flow.

Interested in learning more about business opportunities with Moansan? Check them out here!

The Importance of Diversification

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Many feel that if managed properly, owning a diverse set of businesses can help insulate against business peaks and troughs in the market. Many wealth planners will generally present diversification models to allow the purchase of multiple asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Diversification in the franchise industry is different. Franchisees can diversify within a particular industry by acquiring different brands.  Diversifying within the same industry, such as the buying several different restaurant brands, still allows the franchisee to apply the same basic infrastructure to their business.

This strategy of franchising helps spread the risk from a franchisee’s perspective. If the demography of existing brands and new brands are vastly different, there becomes an opportunity to cross-market both products and knowledge. Aziz Hashim, the president and CEO of NRD Holdings, LLC, highlights a smart way to diversify in his recent piece in Franchising World about this topic, stating that “The most effective way to execute a diversification strategy is to identify opportunities in new sectors where the operational complexity is generally lower than the existing operations so as to not dilute the franchisee’s time and focus, where at least some existing infrastructure can be leveraged and ideally where there are natural synergies through complementary service offerings and similar demographic.” Complementary service offerings can play a key role in expanding your opportunities and create growth.

Do you own a diverse set of businesses? We would love to hear feedback from you!

Franchise Profile: Dickey’s Barbecue

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Have you been to your local Dickey’s BBQ? Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants have been serving up some of the most mouthwatering, lip smacking, great tasting barbecue since 1941. Today, Dickey’s are opening up all over North America.

Dickey’s Philosophy

It’s simple: they want to find the right Owner/Operator first. Second, they use their site selection model to find the right location. Then they assist every step of the way in building a great restaurant and setting their operators up for success.

Dickey’s has evolved over the years, changing the public’s perception of barbecue and taking the category mainstream. The Dickey’s restaurant concept is authentic, inviting and well planned. They aim for 1,800 sq. ft. end-cap or free standing locations to maximize the profitability of our stores.

Perks

Each new Dickey’s Owner/Operator will have full advantage of the decades of experience, improvements and upgrades, attention to detail and the high quality standards established and maintained by the Dickey family. The Dickey’s franchise program features:

  • Site location assistance
  • Floor plan design and layout
  • Thorough training in management, operations and marketing
  • Field support and group purchasing power
  • Protected territories
  • Comprehensive accounting procedures
  • Turn key assistance
  • The knowledge and experience to help you succeed

 

Interested in learning more? Check it out here!

 

Is Your Business Mobile-Friendly?

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Mobile communication is now an imperative part of a business’s marketing strategy. People are using smart phones and other mobile devices now more than ever. They are using their mobile technology to find shops, restaurants, and services in their area, and it’s important that when they search, they find your business.

If your website is not mobile-friendly, it will most likely lose you business. Anyone searching your business from their smart phone wants to quickly and conveniently access your contact information, purchase your products, or both. If the customer can’t find information, or the layout of your site isn’t compatible with his or her technology, they may become frustrated and bring their business elsewhere.

Additionally, your emails and newsletters must also be mobile-friendly. If people are reading your communications on-the-go, they want to be able to read the email free of excessive scrolling, pinching, and squinting at their touch-screen device. An annoying-to-read email will quickly be sent to the trash bin, or worse, unsubscribed from.

By creating a shorter, more condensed version of your website for mobile-users, you keep current customers happy and new customers coming. You can find more information about making a mobile friendly site in Franchising World’s current online magazine, found here.

TapSnap: A Fun, Flexible Franchise

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TapSnap Portable Photo Booth is the photo booth for the digital era. TapSnap is a sophisticated, portable “phototainment” system that can be rented for any party or event. An attendant accompanies the booth at each outing, so that the guests can relax and enjoy the event. It is also an exciting franchise opportunity.

With TapSnap, you have the potential to earn more money in one day than most people do in a week, while participating in exciting events and parties. You can earn over $1,400 per event while helping clients create fabulous photo memories  – everything from parties, weddings, trade shows, corporate functions and charity events. With Tap Snap, work will never be the same again.

With as little as $32K, you can be up and running in your own TapSnap franchise within 45 days. TapSnap events typically take place on evenings or weekends so you can become your own boss while keeping the stability of your regular employment. Or you can just enjoy the tremendous potential of part-time work, with full-time pay.

Benefits of being a franchisee include:

  • A proven business development program –12 years of experience helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses
  • SnapCentral – our national reservations center provides prospects and handles your calls and inquiries
  • SnapBook software streamlines your success
  • National marketing program generates prospects for franchisees and helps to ensure that they are already familiar with our brand

To learn more and to hear from current TapSnap franchisees, read on here: http://franchisebuy.com/franchise/Tap-Snap-Portable-Photo-Booth

It’s in the Water: Brooklyn Water Bagels

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What makes a good bagel good? Any New Yorker will tell you it’s the water.

Bagels, first introduced to America by Polish-Jewish immigrants in the 1880s, have become a signature bread in New York City and its surrounding boroughs. When Polish immigrants passed through Ellis Island, they brought with them the delicious recipe, which is said to be made best with New York City tap water.

Many New York bagel enthusiasts claim that when transient populations of New Yorkers first got down to places like South Carolina and Florida and began making bagels, they realized that while their flour and ingredients were the same, their bagels did not taste the same. The missing ingredient was, of course, the tap water. New York City tap water has a pH level of 7.2; whereas a pH of 7.0 is considered pure water. The pH level affects the way in which proteins in the mixture denature, and therefore can cause a change in the way the yeast rises and the dough tastes.  Additionally, New York City water has optimal quantities of calcium and dissolved minerals, strengthening the wheat protein and causing the bagel to taste chewier – a texture many bagel lovers enjoy.

So what is a bagel shop in Florida to do? In steps Brooklyn Water Bagels, a bagel shop franchise originated in Delray Beach, Florida. The CEO, Steven Fassberg, a Brooklynite relocated to the Delray area, began working on recreating New York City’s tap water with his own machinery, adding ingredients like calcium and magnesium to replicate the makeup of the water.  When he perfected the water, bada-bing, he began making bagels that tasted just like a New York authentic bagel.

Today, Brooklyn Water Bagel has locations all over the country. Serving everything from breakfast sandwiches to iced coffee made with frozen coffee cubes, Americans everywhere can enjoy a good ol’ New York bagel.  The proprietary water treatment technology system that the franchise has at each location “Brooklynizes” the water, as they call it, and is designed “to provide limited maintenance operation for the franchisee via satellite monitoring of each store’s water system to ensure consistent quality.”

Is there a Brooklyn Water Bagels near you? Leave comments below!

Franchise Profile: Planet Beach

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Own the Hottest Concept in the Multi-Billion-Dollar Spa, Wellness and Beauty Industry!

 

Planet Beach, the world’s largest automated spa franchise, is a unique, innovative, membership-based spa franchise. At Planet Beach, customers experience self-automated day spa treatments and rejuvenating wellness services affordably, conveniently, and privately without the need for an attendant.

  • Minimal staffing requirements keep your operating costs down
  • A low-overhead, easy-to-operate concept
  • The strength of an industry leader
  • Widespread appeal and a highly desirable customer base
  • Multiple potential revenue streams

 

Capitalize on the Demand for Spa Services

 

With appearance-minded, health-conscious consumers increasingly seeking services that focus on the mind-body connection, now is an ideal time to own a Planet Beach franchise of your own. As a Planet Beach franchisee, you’ll be well-positioned in a thriving industry. In fact:

  • Currently, consumers are spending over $125 billion in the health and wellness arena.
  • Health and wellness is projected to be a trillion dollar industry by 2012.
  • Our price-point facilitates increased membership sales and repeat business.

 

You’ll Own a Business that Offers a Wide-Range of Sought-After Services

  • Four types of massages.
  • Two types of facials.
  • Teeth whitening.
  • Oxygen and UV therapy.
  • Weight management treatments.
  • Mystic spray tans.
  • A wide range of skincare and nutrition products.

 

You’ll Receive a Proven Business System and Unsurpassed Support

 

When you join Planet Beach as a franchise owner, you will receive a support system that is unsurpassed. Their team of professionals will guide you through every step of the process. The Planet Beach business system features:

  • Comprehensive training
  • Pre-sale program startup field training
  • Exclusive territory.
  • Site selection guidance, as well as design and construction assistance.
  • Financing assistance.
  • Staff recruitment assistance
  • Grand opening assistance
  • Onsite field support
  • Marketing support
  • Ongoing training and consulting
  • Annual conventions.

 

If you possess an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in becoming part of a fun and dynamic business focused on growth, excitement and mental and physical wellness, this may be the ideal opportunity for you!

 

To learn more about the Planet Beach franchise opportunity, please submit your information to the franchise developer here: http://www.franchisebuy.com/franchise/Planet-Beach.

 

Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffees & Smoothies Sails into Southwest Florida with New Location

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Maui Wowi Hawaiian is spreading fast as it prepares to open another store in the Sunshine State at the Miromar Outlets in Southwest Florida. Maui Wowi specializes in serving freshly blended fruit smoothies alongside a line of premium roasted Hawaiian coffees. Franchise owner Muhamad Barazi will soon be sharing the Maui Wowi products with shoppers and visitors this fall.

 
“Maui Wowi is all about people being happy and enjoying healthy beverages,” said Barazi. “I believe in the coffee and smoothie business and am ready to dive in and get involved; it’s not in my nature to sit down.”

 
This new store at Miromar Outlets will be Barazi’s first location. The outdoor shopping center features over 120 retail outlets and was recently voted best shopping mall in Southwest Florida. Located at 10801 Corkscrew Rd. in Estero between Naples and Fort Myers, the beautiful beaches and palm tree lined streets of the surrounding area make it an ideal destination for Maui Wowi.

 
For over 30 years, the company has proven itself as a leader in the beverage market with its unique dual concept, high quality beverages and authentic Hawaiian products. The smoothies are gluten-free and made using all natural ingredients, making them stand out from the competition.

 
Barazi’s Maui Wowi store will be opening this fall on the heels of three other Maui Wowi locations. The most recent store to open is also located in Florida in the bustling community of Boynton Beach. Two other stores are set to open in the coming weeks in Wantagh, N.Y. and Mt. Juliet, Tenn. In addition to the thriving retail model, Maui Wowi adds to the diversity of its concept with a mobile unit, known as the Ka’anapali Cart, which can be found at events,venues, and catered functions throughout the country.

 
For more information about this location or franchising with Maui Wowi Hawaiian, please visit http://franchisebuy.com/franchise/Maui-Wowi-Hawaiian-Coffees-and-Smoothies.

 

 

About Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffees & Smoothies:
Since 1982, Maui Wowi Hawaiian has embraced the Hawaiian culture and has been serving paradise in a cup since the day it began, 30 years ago. From event carts, mall kiosks and stand-alone retail locations Maui Wowi Hawaiian offers premium, all-natural, gluten-free, fresh-fruit smoothies, as well as gourmet Hawaiian coffees and espresso beverages. With over 400 operating units in eight countries, Maui Wowi Hawaiian has truly gone “Global” by adding an online store, shop.mauiwowi.com. Now customers from anywhere in the world can experience the prized-gourmet Hawaiian coffees and taste the ‘Aloha Spirit’ with a ‘Click-of-a button!’ To learn more information about Maui Wowi Hawaiian’s, products, locations, or flexible, low cost franchising opportunities, visit http://franchisebuy.com/franchise/Maui-Wowi-Hawaiian-Coffees-and-Smoothies.

Business Opportunity Profile: ToMM TV

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ToMM TV is the fastest way to start your own digital signage business. ToMM TV has been successfully running Digital Signage Networks for over 3 years. As entrepreneurs themselves, the owners of ToMM TV saw the potential for other ambitious entrepreneurs to own their own business in this exciting industry. ToMM TV has streamlined an affordable and proven model that includes everything you need to be successful in your new business.

 

 

Why ToMM TV? It’s simple… ToMM TV will give you the tools and training you need to be successful – based on REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE. You will be trained and supported by people who have working knowledge and experience in the industry. The ToMM TV Distributor package includes all of the equipment and marketing materials you need as well as 4 days of LIVE TRAINING and ongoing support.
You can earn up to $7,000 or more per month with this incredible Home-Based Business. Your low one-time investment includes Ten LCD TVs and all the training and materials you need to start your own ToMM TV Digital Signage Advertising Business. With some excitement and hard work, you can quickly be earning $7,000 or more per month – residually, with your very first network! Your distributorship comes with a protected territory with room for up to 10 networks – so do the math… With ToMM TV you can earn live changing income doing something that you love!

Place your ToMM TVs in local hotspots like restaurants and health clubs, then start talking to local business owners to sell them ads on your ToMM TVs. If you are a hard-worker and are not afraid to talk to people then ToMM TV is an excellent way for you to earn a great living doing something you love to do. You could quickly be earning up to $7,000 or more per month with your initial investment with growth potential to earn up to $70,000 PER MONTH!

To learn more about the ToMM TV business opportunity, please visit: http://www.franchisebuy.com/franchise/ToMM-TV

Franchise Profile: OneClick Cleaners

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OneClick Cleaners has the only online fully functional, full service website allowing customers to sign up online, enter cleaning preferences, set schedules and pickups all from the home or office.

 

The OneClick Cleaners™ Quick Start Program offers more start-up support than any other dry cleaning franchise, as a portion of the initial franchise fee will go towards equipment, supplies and start-up marketing & advertising material for your business. With OneClick Cleaners™ you can provide dry cleaning and laundry services, tailoring, shoe repair as well as other service-related conveniences for single & multifamily homes, apartment complexes, office buildings, retail centers, schools or any other institutions that require service on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. The first day you go out is the first day you start making money!

 

 

OneClick’s Quick Start Program will Jumpstart your Business!

Quick Start franchise owners will be assigned a professional start up coach to work one-on-one with you and develop a customized marketing plan for your area; specialized market impact groups to encourage business development and best practices; and reduced overall start-up costs.

 

Quick Start franchise owners benefit from..

  • Limited time reduced franchise fee
  • Low minimum down payment
  • Start-up equipment, supplies & marketing materials
  • In-house direct financing available
  • A professional start-up coach for the first year
  • A customized marketing & advertising plan

 

To learn more about this franchise opportunity and how to get started, please visit the following link: http://www.franchisebuy.com/franchise/OneClick-Cleaners. Fill out the form provided to submit information and request a meeting with OneClick’s franchise developer.