Investigate the Competition

Long before you open a career and workplace education business within your community, it's essential to find out how many competitors you have. We've provided the link below to help you get a list of local competitors near you. After clicking on the link, type in your city, state and zip code to get a list of career and workplace education businesses near you.

• Locate Career & Workplace Education Businesses Near You

Is the established competition doing a good job? It's important to understand their strengths and weaknesses and think through how you'll stake up against those established businesses.

Learn from Others Who Are Already In This Space

If you are interested in starting a career and workplace education business, you really ought to talk to somebody who is already in the business. If you think your local competitors will give you advice, you're being overoptimistic. The last thing they want to do is help you to be a better competitor.

Fortunately, somebody who runs a career and workplace education business on the other side of the country may be willing to share their entrepreneurial wisdom with you, provided that you won't be directly competing with them. In fact, they are often very willing to share startup advice with you. Our estimate is that you may have to contact many business owners to find one who is willing to share his wisdom with you.

So, what can you do to find somebody who runs a career and workplace education business who is willing to advise you because you live in different cities?

It's easy. Here's a link you can use to find a mentor outside of your area.

• Research Career & Workplace Education Business Owners In Other Cities

Franchising May Be a Better Way to Go

Your chances of achieving the entrepreneurial goal of thriving in your new business are much greater when you franchise instead of doing it all on your own.

Before opening a career and workplace education business, it's worthwhile to check out whether purchasing a franchise might make sense for you.

The link below gives you access to our franchise directory so you can see if there's a franchise opportunity for you. You might even find something that points you in a completely different direction.

• Franchising Information