If you are a woman in the United States and you are looking for a franchise business that has a low start-up investment, provides you with the flexibility that you are looking for and can be worked from home, you may want to consider the following franchise business segments: home decorating, healthy vending, medical billing, travel planning and gift baskets.

Home Decorating: In this business, you can use your creativity and flare for design to be able to help others design and decorate their homes and businesses. The low startup costs and overhead makes this easy to start and you’ll be able to use your flare for creativity to have a fulfilling business.

Healthy Vending: By offering healthy vending alternatives, both adults and children can benefit. This could be a part time business that allows you to have the freedom of working a full time job and maintaining your family commitments. With this type of business you actually establish a route and you service that route. Routes can be serviced daily, weekly or even by-weekly.

Medical Billing: Medical billing is a growing field. You will need to be very detailed and organized to operate this type of a business. You can easily start off part time and then grow to a full time business. And with the upcoming changes in the health care system, potentially there could be lots of opportunities in this field.

Travel Planning: Travel planning is a business where you would help others plan their vacations. It is a fun business and not only will you help others out by providing affordable opportunities for travel, buy you will be able to benefit from the discounts provided by the travel lines to their agents.

Gift Baskets: Whether it is fruit, candy or small gift items, you can be creative and prepare gifts for businesses who provide giveaways for their customers. Not only will you be providing a service for them, you will be able to bring a smile to their customer’s face.

So, if you are considering one of these segments, let us help you begin your search. Contact a franchise consultant and we will certainly be able to assist you.