US Lawns - 2014 Top Pick

Top Pick for 2014

U.S. Lawns is the largest and fastest growing landscape maintenance franchise company in the green industry today. Through a network of operator-owned branches located strategically throughout the United States, US Lawns provides commercial customers with a full range of personalized, professional landscape maintenance services. The benefits and privileges of owning a US Lawns franchise include on-site startup training, horticultural and agronomic training, sales training, corporate-sponsored purchasing support, ongoing sales, operations, and administrative support, exclusive lead generation and sales appointments by our in-house telemarketing department, exclusive customer service program, proprietary estimating system, complete operations manual and foreman's manual, marketing materials, a computer with customized software package, protected territory, declining royalty structure, and low franchise/royalty fees.

Recently included among Entrepreneur Magazines listing of "Best Franchise Opportunities", U.S. Lawns is America’s fastest growing and most dynamic landscape Franchise Company. Since it’s founding in 1986, the U.S. Lawns team of business, sales and landscape professionals have consistently guided the franchise family as they pursue their dreams of operating a business in the landscape industry.

As with landscape, the U.S. Lawns corporate team combines the hands on philosophy of a small business with large corporate-style organization and technical resources to provide complete personalized support. With more than 140 franchise locations across 28 states, U.S. Lawns philosophy of no job too big or too small along with our four ideals, Trust, Quality, Services and Value has proven to be a winning strategy.

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TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Franchise

Top Pick 2014

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Franchise

Your first thought may be the moving business?
Think again, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® franchisees work on growing the business and aren't on the truck.
How big is the market for moving services? According to the US Census, on average, 17 percent of the population moves every year. This figure doesn't include business moves or the growing demand for manpower to move a limited number of items within homes and offices.
        
TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®, affectionately known as "The Movers Who Care®"is the first and largest franchised moving company in North America with 200 franchisees (8 servicing Ontario Canada) and we still have 40 - 50 high profile territories available in Canada. Our franchise business model is best described as a "Professional Moving Business for the Business Professional", our franchisees don't drive the trucks or move furniture, they are trained to own and operate their own successful TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® moving business using our proven operating system. This TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® concept has been around for 20 years providing local and regional moving and related services such as packing, unpacking, the sale of boxes, moving supplies and packing materials to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Last year alone our franchisees completed 358,000 moves with 1,358 moving trucks while generating a 94% customer referral rating. In 2008 "JD Powers and Associates" ranked TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® first (1st) in customer service satisfaction among moving companies. We are a company moving in the right direction and we have the sales numbers to prove it.

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Wild Bird Centers of America - 2014 Top Pick

WILD Bird CENTER stores sell products and services in high demand by all backyard birdwatchers and nature lovers. Our stores carry high-end and high-quality bird feeders, houses, baths, bird seed, binoculars, garden supplies, books, nature gifts - everything that a backyard birdwatcher may need. Many products are packaged exclusively for our company's Private Label Program.

A Wild Bird Center franchise is more than a store; it is a valued community resource. Our unique combination of loyalty-building products, information and inspiration establishes each store franchise as a resource embraced by the community it serves. Our stores achieve outstanding levels of repeat business, customer referrals and media attention.


We also promote nature conservation through Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology and local programs in schools, garden clubs and churches as well as forming alliances with local nature oriented institutions such as park districts, nature centers and birding clubs.

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FocalPoint International Franchise

Top Pick 2014





FocalPoint International Franchise Information:

FocalPoint is part of the lucrative business performance coaching segment of the coaching market. FocalPoint's mission is to boost the performance of organizations by coaching and teaching proven and innovative business strategies and tactics directly to business owners or key leaders.  Our franchise opportunity, one of the few executive franchises, provides expansive tools, systems and a brand our coaches can leverage as they operate a successful business as a FocalPoint Coach. FocalPoint's structure ensures that franchisees receive exceptional training, support and the resources needed to be successful.
The Franchise Program FocalPoint provides each franchise business coach with proven and "Guaranteed" content, delivered to business owners through 1 on 1 Coaching, Group Coaching, Workshops and Seminars.
As a FocalPoint franchisee you have a significant advantage over traditional franchise models that require large upfront investment and start-up costs. The FocalPoint model requires no inventory and has low operational overhead, generating premium margins for the service your franchise will provide to clients. Also, the on-going royalties are fixed rather than a traditional percentage of revenues, ensuring that success is leveraged and never penalized. That way, all franchisees contribute equally to the continued development of franchise systems.

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