Franchise. An alternative for your next career.

A close friend is considering ditching her job to become a business owner. She’s played the corporate game for a few decades, and now wants more control over her professional destiny. Starting a business can be risky. According to a Washington Post report, fifty percent will fail within five years. Yet there is a strategy that can bump the success rate up to a more comfortable level, and that’s by going the franchise route, rather than starting from scratch. According to alternative career coach Steve Miller with The Entrepreneur’s Source, 80% of franchises will still be thriving at the five...