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Fabulous Small Business Opportunities For The Creative Entrepreneur

Written by: Candice Clem

Article Overview: Do you want to start your own small business franchise, but still flex your right brain? You don't have to have a traditional business mind to succeed in business, and with some of these new franchises an artistic mind can find success where others may not be able to. Take a look at some of the best small business franchise opportunities for the creatively minded entrepreneur.

Fabulous Small Business Opportunities For The Creative Entrepreneur

Often people like to pigeonhole creative individuals by saying that the only career options for them are art, music, or writing, as though creativity were only useful in those three industries. It’s a strange concept, because there is really no market or business in which creativity is anything but an asset. If you have a flair for inventive thought and seeing the world just a little bit differently than most, there are probably many different directions you could go in, depending on your experience and passions, but if you need a bit of a jumpstart to get your creative career juices flowing, here are some great small business options that would provide you with space to unleash your creativity.

PortraitEFX

Generally considered an art, photography is also a booming business. Specifically concentrating on the work of portraiture, PortraitEFX franchisees couple the artistic and business aspects together on a daily basis to provide their clients with professional and innovative photos of the people that they love the most. This business is the perfect way to get your photography career off the ground without limiting how far or how high you can go. Because the business model is already established and proven successful, with a fully functional marketing team and system working behind you, the tedium of starting your own business is taken care of, leaving you to take the best pictures possible.

Dogsmith

It may sound odd, but creativity is essential to good dog training. This home based business was built by one of the world’s leading animal behaviorists, Niki Tudge, and it puts to use some of the most cutting edge training techniques in circulation today. Franchisees are taught all they need to know to make each franchise all it can be and to leave every family with the most well behaved dog possible, but simply knowing the proper methodology is not all there is to great training. This franchise, for all its strength and success, can only benefit further from being run by a franchisee with a creative streak, one who is able to mix up lessons and change tactics with families and pets as circumstances necessitate in order to reach a desired end. Because every dog and every owner is little different, good, creative trainers have to stay on their toes at all times.

Billboard Connection

Despite the advance of the internet and online advertising, one of the most dominant forms of marketing available is still the billboard, and though there are few franchises that specialize in this form of marketing, that is precisely what Billboard Connection does. Building relationships with smaller local businesses, franchisees with this work at home business provide their clients with access to billboard, taxi-top, and bus advertising opportunities that they otherwise would never be able to achieve, due to larger businesses generally monopolizing the market. Though all marketing methods, business practices, and sales tactics are taught by the franchisor so that no previous marketing experience is necessary, there is great room for a creative franchisee to bring his gift to the table to help better relate to clients and connect them to the combination of advertising opportunities that will best suit their particular line of work. At any stage in the process, advertising is a market that lives and breathes on creativity.

Profiles International

The greatest asset of any business is its people, and Profiles International is one work from home business that understands that. Franchisees in 118 countries provide over 35,000 client businesses with employment evaluation and human resource management assessment tools that are some of the best in the world. The makers of this globally recognized name have instilled into the business a kind of creativity that has set them apart in the industry since the beginning, and any additional innovation brought to the table by a franchisee is a welcom addition. People are the core of this business for sale and its mission, and there is nothing on earth as complicated as people; they are more complex in behavior and thought than any piece of machinery or living thing, and it takes a special kind of creative problem solving to successfully assess a potential employee’s character and then try to hone his skills as he becomes a part of a client’s business. For the relationally creative, this is the perfect opportunity to put your abilities to use.

Whatever people may say, creativity is a valuable trait in nearly every industry out there, but these few business opportunities are some in which it is of special importance. If you have what it takes to follow a franchisor’s lead while looking at daily problems from a slightly different perspective and adapting standard methods to deal with new issues, you would be a great addition to any business’ list of franchisees.

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