These business don't necessarily need to be fully run online per se, but if that's what you choose to do its okay. These businesses are for people that are looking for opportunities to have franchises they can do from home. There are many different options you can choose from depending on your personal preferences such as:

Automotive

Business and professional

Child Related

Cleaning and Maintenance

Computer and Tech

Educational

Food and restaurant

Health-care and hospital related

Home

Pet

Real estate

Service

much more!

These are businesses that you will be buying into. Some of them cost a few hundred and others cost thousands of dollars. It seems like the more popular the brand name and the more potential money you can make with it, the more expensive it is to buy it. A really good magazine to read if you are looking to buy into a franchise is Entrepreneur magazine. They have tons of "hot lists" along with some really good information like how much it costs to get into it, how much you can possibly make, things included in the business and a lot more.

A few months ago they had a 150 page "guide" with all this info in there and I have to say its pretty darn interesting to see all the different things you can get into. Some of the business were ones I had never heard of and others like Petland, Jiffy Lube and Pizza Hut are obviously pretty well-known! Here are a few examples for the categories listed above:

Auto -

Appearance Plus

Fabrion

Matco Tools

Computer and Tech -

1800905Geek

WSI

Mobile Computer

Food -

BP

7 Eleven

Dunkin Donuts

Pizza Fusion

Ritas Italian Ice

I know what your thinking. Dunkin Donuts? BP? These aren't home businesses! Well they sort of are. You could make it into whatever you want to. You can work at the actual place you buy, you can work at home, you can work online, you can do whatever you want, it's YOUR business! All this info and much more can be found on the Entrepreneur site online. You can also be connected directly with the company at hand so you can find out more about the financial and personal relationship they have with the buyers (you), minimum/maximum investments, and much more. There are several other sites you can find online that offer these types of directories but, I think Entrepreneur is by far the best. Everyone else seems to have scattered companies across the board but Entrepreneur has everything in one place, and I think this makes finding an op a lot easier for people!