If your desire is to start your own business in your own house, having to neither please a boss nor work on someone else's clock, look no further. If you can't keep yourself away from your computer and are always messing around on the internet in your spare time, why not make some money for it? In all of the franchises below, your computer communication skills run headlong into profit, all with profoundly low startup costs-because, let us not forget, you're working in your PJs from your living room. Read on to find out how this works.
ADVENTURES IN ADVERTISING
In this franchise opportunity, work with business owners, VPs of sales/marketing, advertising and PR agencies, and marketing directors to provide promotional work for businesses in all sectors, industries, and sizes-an opportunity for business growth if ever there was one. If you know how to best promote a company in the public market, this is the franchise for you. And if you don't have any experience in marketing yet, that's ok too, because Adventures in Advertising will teach you how to best put this $19-billion/yr business to work for you. Working capital is provided so that franchisees can take on the big accounts-and therefore make the big bucks-without having to pay out of pocket. And with telecommunications as your primary method of contact, there are no geographic restrictions on your business progress. The sky is the limit-if anything is.

NO DIET WEIGHT SOLUTION
Everyone can agree with this company's motto: "diets don't work!"
As a franchisee with No Diet Weight Solution, the job is connecting clients with coaching, tools, and techniques to help them lose weight over the long haul by putting nutrition in its rightful place and curbing emotional eating. The benefits to the clientele are obvious, but the benefits to franchisees are no less. An unending supply of clients who want desperately to lose pounds secure a steady cash flow as well as the rewarding ability to help people achieve life-changing health results with this physician-endorsed, well-proven system. New owners can start with no experience, full-time or just on the side of a regular 9-to-5, from the comfort of home.

FOODBOX
Make take-out more internet-friendly with Foodbox. From anywhere a laptop can go, franchisees can dive into the increasingly lucrative e-commerce business of online-ordered food delivery, linking online customers with local restaurants to simplify ordering out for both the business and the patron. All that's needed is a computer and a fair knowledge of take-out restaurants in your area. Foodbox franchisees pay no maintenance or hidden fees, making overhead costs next to nil. At the outset, new partners receive basic training, easy-to-use advertising templates, proven software, and 24-hour support. This franchise is just as easy for its owner as it is for clients, and it taps into a market that's not going anywhere anytime soon.

ATM FRANCHISE BUSINESS
ATMs are everywhere these days, which begs two questions: where'd they come from, and who makes the money from that obnoxious service charge? By joining ACFM ATM Franchise Business, the answer to both those questions is you.
No experience is necessary to up and start your own private network of ATMs that appear in hotels, movie theatres, hospitals, night clubs, sports bars, breweries and more. Becoming a part of this interesting business opportunity sets you in place for a constant stream of money from other people's bank accounts.

VEHICLE TRACKING SOLUTIONS
Of the roughly 20 million business vehicles on the road, only a fraction are using vehicle tracking technology. Vehicle Tracking Solutions is looking for strong work at home franchisees to help them correct that. After a very low startup cost, the basic business model works like this: VTS sells GPS trackers to franchisees who then turn around to sell them to client companies. VTS only requires franchisees to have sales experience and a potent work-ethic, and a two-week initial training program insures that franchisees are ready to take on the challenge of breaking ground in an almost untapped market.

AIS MEDIA
With this small business opportunity, franchisees get to operate from home under their own company name, something that most franchises aren't given the freedom to do. Forrester Research, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal have all kept their eye on AIS because of the success the company has already seen in the internet service technologies business. The equipment needed by clients is purchased from AIS for prices 70% below retail price and then sold at retail to the franchisee's clients. New partners don't need technical experience to start a franchise; website design, domain registration, email marketing, and credit card processing are all provided, and there are no territory restrictions.

L&W INVESTIGATIONS
One of Entrepreneur's Top 92 Franchise list, L&W is the work-at-home business for natural salesmen and snoops. Clients in need of investigation are routed through the franchisee to the investigative services.
People love this company because results come back in a fraction of time it takes most services to return high quality information. This is a great business opportunity. With few, if any, investigation services using this business model, starting an L&W franchise allows you to stand alone in a small but necessary business market with an already building clientele. And training is available for franchisees and clients.

Why should the technologically minded businessman be just another cog in the machine? With such a great variety of businesses to get into from your own desk at home, there's no reason to work at someone else's bidding. Take your pick and make your mark, on your own.

April 28, 2008