My wife and I were talking the other day and realized that both of us worked hard for someone else so they can get all the money and we did all the work.  We started looking for franchise opportunities on the Internet and found out that there are many business opportunities out there.  You just have to find a niche of something that is not in your community and something that the community wants and needs.  In our search we found out that smoothie franchise opportunities are abundant on the Internet and our small-town in Wyoming did not have a smoothie business.  For a nominal fee you can find out just exactly how much the franchise is and the people that are selling the franchise not only acts as a smoothie consultant but if you want to branch out to sell juices in your franchise, they also provide juice bar consulting.Owning a franchise is not as hard as I thought it would be.  All you have to do is find a suitable location that has an affordable rent attached to it and use the business plan and marketing ideas that have already been created by the smoothie franchise seller.  I’m sure that this type of situation could be mirrored in several other types of opportunities in franchises as well.  I’m using the smoothie franchise as an example because this is the one that my wife and I found viable for our situation.  With the franchise we were looking at no longer having to work for other people to make their money and we can work for ourselves and with the proper motivation and marketing techniques, make enough to live and may be even provide an early retirement.  So if you’re looking for franchise opportunities just put the word franchise in the search box of your search engine and you will be able to find the franchise opportunities of a lifetime.