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Okay, now we're moving on to the third option here. This is low-cost franchises.

There are many, I mean, now it's kind of a new trend almost, but now there's many low-cost

opportunities out there that offer the ability to buy a business model, to buy a business system,

to buy a franchise, but it's at a very low cost. Can you walk me through a little bit about what

this is all about and maybe the kinds of opportunities that are out there?

Yeah, there is a tremendous number of opportunities in the lower investment categories.

And there are more and more coming up all the time as various types of business go into

advertising. There's always been low-cost franchises.

Oh, really? Yes, at least the 30-some years I've been involved.

There's always been lower-cost franchise opportunities. They're not all super expensive.

The growth in our economy around service businesses is really what drives that, because service businesses

typically have a lower threshold for investment and also have typically higher gross margins and net profit.

So those are where you're going to see a lot of the service businesses.

Can you give me an example of the kinds of service business?

Yeah, it's a specific franchise, but maybe the kinds of services.

It's like carpet cleaning or landscaping or what kind of?

Carpet cleaning, landscaping, you know, personal services, pet walking.

Pet walking.

You know, there's all kinds of crazy businesses out there playing their franchise.

Is that really a business?

Pet care, those types of things, services, you know, business, B2B services, business to business services,

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