If you want to work from home and fit your working life around your family instead of the other way round. A popular choice in recent years has been to start a home publishing business. Such businesses usually publish a local magazine or directory aimed at a specific niche.

While it’s possible to pursue such a business opportunity on your own, taking it from idea to reality without any outside help (as I’ve done), it’s not easy and it’ll take you longer to start generating a profit. There is an alternative however, buy into a franchise and get a ready made brand and business model.

The Family Grapevine is one such franchise which offers an excellent package that is good value. It’s a family friendly business opportunity and less restrictive than most similar franchises. It’s run by Sheridan Hudson and Nikki Vine from their homes in Somerset where they fit their work around 5 Kids, 4 Fish, 3 Dogs, 2 Budgies.

Joining a franchise like this has lots of advantages. For example The Family Grapevine group has over 11 years of experience, so you will have access to a tried and tested business system. You can learn from your predecessors’ experience and mistakes! You can potentially make faster progress and go into profit sooner. Using the group’s names and trademarks allows you to benefit from its reputation and makes your business stronger in the face of competition.

Perhaps most importantly, working at home can be isolating. Keeping motivated, particularly after a string of rejections, can be hard and that’s where good personal support is invaluable. The Family Grapevine group has superb facilities to support new editors, a cooperative, non-competitive ethos, respect for each other’s territories and loyal editors who very rarely give up or leave the group.

The Family Grapevine gives you all the advantages of self employment, together with all the advantages of belonging to a well respected, established group. There are very few rules, but if you follow their format closely your business is likely to be a roaring success.

The Family Grapevine is the franchise opportunity that I’m most familiar with as I’m currently doing some consultancy for them and have previously benefited from their publishing expertise when I launched a business to business magazine. If you think you would be interested running a Family Grapevine publication in your local area why not give them a call on 01749 678393 or 01749 870471.

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