Blue Coast Financial Group offers a business model called Blue Coast.

Previous experience with Blue Coast is not a factor in your success. All you really need is:

1) The desire to be self-employed.

2) The willingness to learn.

3) The ability to develop and manage business relationships.

4) The passion to succeed.

Here is the commitment on your part:

They promise the best training available in the industry from your own Blue Coast Success Coach. They will provide you with everything you need to own and run your own financial services business, including product materials and web-based seminars, as well as hands-on one-on-one business training sessions. Their support staff and analysts will assist you in generating leads. However, you, as a Blue Coast Savings Consultant, will manage and develop relationships with your clients as outlined in #3 of the “Success Factors” above.

Blue Coast will provide pre-qualified and scheduled appointments at the location of your choice. A collection of 15 essential business-to-business services offer such excellent value and remarkable savings that it can actually transform one potential customer into many more within the same company. For example; Your prospect is in need of workers comp, but discovers they also have a tax exemption and/or factoring. Best of all, as a Blue Coast Savings Consultant, you can offer this innovative suite of financial services at no cost and risk free to a wide range of businesses, both large and small. Each department has its own commission structure. Some are one-time commissions based on a percentage of the transaction, while others come in the form of ongoing residuals based on turnover.

Consider the following:

• Recession proof: unlimited potential for growth

• Work from home: no “bricks and mortar” office required

• No cold calling: customers come to you

• Multiple streams of income

• Leverage existing customers

• Create a sales force at no additional cost

• Customer Relationship Management System

• Techniques of “Smart Marketing” and “Marketing-in-a-Box”

• Easy presentations and fast sales cycle

• Quick return on investment and time

So is this a business opportunity that you can wrap your brain around? Is this where you want to invest your time and money? If you have the required $20,000 in reserve and $19,995 upfront for the franchise fee, this might be the business for you. Due to the monetary commitment, you will want to exercise your due diligence a little more. What is your record? How are other franchisors doing? Can you talk to them? There are other franchises available with a much higher price, and conversely, there are some with a lower price. You will need to do the dollar value determination.