There are many reasons to start you own small business or to purchase a franchise opportunity. The most attractive reasons include having a greater uncapped earning potential, and being able to work from home and set your own schedule. One of the ways that this can be accomplished more and more in the franchise world is through the internet franchises that are emerging in popularity and profitability. There are many home business opportunities that allow the franchise owner to work from home and stay on top of a successful business with an internet based franchise. Here are a half-dozen business opportunities that range a wide variety of the type of business, but can all be run as a work at home franchise.

#1 Adventures in Advertising
This advertising franchise opportunity includes an outstanding initial training and office launch program during the first 180 days of operation. With continued support and personal assignment to a regional sales director, marketing representative, and customer service representative. An AIA franchise opportunity ranks among the top 100 franchises in profitability with an average sales per office of $396,691. This executive level sales opportunity works with business owners, VP's of sales/marketing, advertising and PR agencies to market personalized gift office supplies for customers to give in appreciation and advertisement. Best of all this franchise opportunity can be fully operated from any home office with access to internet and phone.

#2 Infinite Marketing
This franchise option is on the cutting edge of new practical technology that will change the way that people swap information. The video business card is a Biz-size CD that will automatically play a personalized video when inserted into almost any computer. The business card of the past with a phone number is being pushed aside for an interactive message where a businessperson can actually explain their business to everyone who receives a video business card. The video business card franchise owner does not need any experience or knowledge in producing video that is all handles at the central support office. The franchisee simply markets the product and places orders allowing them to effectively work at home.

#3 Virtuoso Music
This community building franchise is an asset to any neighborhood. The franchise provides concerts, recitals, public events, as well as private in-home lessons all related to musical instruments. Franchise owners are not music teachers but rather the coordinators and administrators of musical lessons and recitals that, unfortunately, the public schools have begun to neglect. This franchise is relatively low cost and has very little overhead costs which makes it a fast track franchise option to profitability.

#4 WSI Internet
This business opportunity is a franchise that offers Internet market Consulting within WSI's global network. You will have the personal and professional independence, freedom, and control that you want and deserve in a work from home business. Whether your background is in sales and marketing or general business WSI's proven system allows motivated, entrepreneurial-minded individuals franchise openings in a high-growth market. WSI is the world's leading internet services franchise providing affordable internet solutions to small and medium sized business.

#5 ACFN ATM
It's a lot of letters for a franchise name but when this franchise reaches it's potential it's a lot more about number than it is letter, numbers with a $ in front of them. The ATM business is booming and ACFN, which stands for American Consumer Financial Network, is the only ATM franchise business available. This business is run while working at home, servicing the machines and monitoring the online activity are the only time requirement of the franchise. If you have ever been in need of cash and there was no ATM to be found then you have already discovered both the location and marketing benefits to an ACFN ATM franchise.

#6 Vehicle Tracking Solutions
With over 20 million business vehicles in America it's a surprise that only 7% of them are equipped with AVL systems allowing those vehicles to be tracked and monitored. With such a desire in the current market for constant information and updates being able to track and locate business service vehicles is becoming a need for all business. That is the consumer base that a Vehicle Tracking Solutions Franchisee markets to, they provide those business with the systems to track their vehicles and show them how to use the internet software to easily display previous locations, current routes and locations, and more accurately let their customers know when deliveries and pick-ups will arrive.

April 16, 2008