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These franchises and business opportunities are currently in the Pilot phase of development. That makes them a great opportunity to get in the ground floor of a new fast-growing business:
With a Boss Gloss franchise you provide car cleaning and valeting services using a uniquely effective product that cleans, polishes and protects the car, inside and out, without the need for water. Each territory comes with a car park. Unlike most car-cleaning and valeting franchises, every Boss Gloss outlet is backed up by a centrally run, active marketing strategy that drives customers to your highly visible and well-branded station.
If you enjoy simple DIY and you are good at dealing with people who may be feeling vulnerable, then a GuardHome wireless security franchise could be for you. You’ll be offering peace of mind at a low cost of ownership to home and business owners who are worried about being burgled and building yourself a solid business with residual income in the process.
The Hard Hat Business Recovery Partnership is perfect for you if you want to use your significant business expertise to help businesses to grow their way out of trouble into sustainable profits, in a spectacular fashion.
As a hands-on, practical business troubleshooter with Hard Hat, you can enjoy a rare opportunity to combine your personal talent and experience with a sound business framework, unique and impressive business tools, and the added benefit of a close-knit peer-group of similarly impressive Hard Hatters. Challenging, but hugely rewarding.
Do you miss the sweets from your childhood? Do you remember when everything was weighed in quarters and came in white paper bags?
Humbug Confectionery has re-created and re-invented the traditional sweet shop, with its own jars, packets and paper bags. It’s a far cry from the old pick and mix and a magnet for locals and tourists of all ages, all year round.
Mail Shot International fills a valuable service niche for smaller businesses - especially those who sell online, and want to outsource package assembly and fulfilment. This makes it ideal if you are looking for a business operating in a fast-growing market.
netLinked is the UK’s first business network and lead generation group to integrate the fantastic power of the LinkedIn business networking website with their own face-to-face network of groups of highly motivated business professionals. If your target market is other businesses and professionals, this is a great way to grow your business and make money doing it. Alternatively, if you love networking and putting businesses in touch with each other then running several groups with this franchise enables you to earn good money from your skills.
A Pattacakes Cookery School franchise is a great way to help children of all ages to engage healthily with food and cooking. As an activity that is both educational and fun, you’ll be popular with children, their parents, their schools and their Gps.
The UK's premier award winning sports development programme is designed to instil a fun and positive attitude to sport and fitness by encouraging pre-school children to participate in regular exercise from a young age.
If you’ve always wanted to set up your own events management company and you love dancing, then a Simply Dancing franchise offers a great route into the rapidly expanding market for Ballroom and Latin dance. You don’t have to be a dancer yourself, as your job is to organise venues, partners and teachers to ensure that clients learn fast and have enormous fun doing it.
The Blinds Network Company is a buyers group supplying discerning home owners with a great choice of quality blinds at prices that represent real value of money. The business is easy to run from home, because blinds are made to order, so there is no need to hold stock.
If you have experience of writing published material, have skills in coaching or consulting, have an understanding of marketing and enjoy working with high achievers you could be kept very busy with this newly launched license. This is a specialist role that you can carry out either in conjunction with another business activity, such as coaching or consulting, or as a full-time business in its own right.
If you have always dreamt of setting up and running your own full-service marketing business, then the Brand Bucket Company franchise could be for you. Using a proprietary, systematic approach to making marketing work to generate sales (that has made of £900 million in net profit for it’s clients) you will be able to generate success for dozens of clients at margins that are around double the industry average.
If any of these appeal to you, contact us for an informal chat, or register with us to find out more and to get help selecting the right business opportunity for you.
What does it mean for a franchise to be in the Pilot phase?
A franchise is a product - the product being the right and the wherewithal to operate a version of the franchisor’s business in a given territory. Like any other product,, a franchise needs to be fully tested before it can go on sales as a proven product.
In the world of franchising that means that the franchisor has to be able to show that someone other than them can successfully run a copy of their business, without needing extensive support.
Being in pilot does not necessarily mean that the business itself is unproven. The franchisor may well have run a very successful business for years. What is being tested is the manuals, training and infrastructure that will enable someone else to be successful in the same business.
Piloting a franchise is a bit like beta-testing software - the product works, all the functionality is there, but there will be bugs and glitches that need ironing out. Like a beta tester, the Pilot franchise owner’s job is to tell the franchisor about those glitches so they can be fixed.
Buying a Pilot franchise can be a very good low-cost route to running your own successful business.
Read more on being a Pilot franchise owner.