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You can own a Home Buddies in your region!
If you want to be a part of "The Caring Connection" and touch people's
lives, Home Buddies is a unique business opportunity for you. |
Each Home Buddies Business comes with a personal run through of the procedures
manual!
Call 336.210.3943 for more information!
Become a Home Buddies Licensee Today! Starting a Home
Buddies Licensee Business has a much lower start-up costs than any franchise opportunity.
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A Booming Business
Be Your Own Boss & Work From Home
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The Home Buddies System
Minimal Startup Fees
With other business opportunities, you're faced with trying to chisel out a customer
base in an already-crowded market. But with a Home Buddies business, you are poised
to take advantage of a dramatic demographic shift in America's population.
The fastest growing segment of America's population is the elderly. According
to the US Census Bureau, the number of persons age 65 or older increased by 74%
between 1970 and 1999, from 20 million to almost 35 million people.
And although advances in health care and technology have extended our lifespans,
physical challenges still face today's seniors:
- 57% of seniors suffer from chronic arthritis
- 20% of seniors over 70 cannot walk
- 21% of seniors over 65 cannot perform simple activities
of daily living such as feeding, getting in and out of bed, getting around inside,
dressing, bathing, toileting, performing rudimentary housework, preparing meals,
shopping for themselves or managing their money.
- 40% of seniors over 65 have some disability
Most seniors, however, desperately want to remain in their own home, preserving
independance and dignity, while avoiding the immense financial burden of entering
nursing facilities. Seniors need help to overcome their health challenges, but
most families can't shoulder the responsibility of caring for their elderly love
ones alone:
- Informal family caregivers are often unprepared to meet
all of the physical and mental challenges of providing care for an ailing relative.
- Families often meet the demands of a career, raising their
own children, and managing their household.
- Families often live far away from one another, making it
even more difficult to care for aging parents. 7 million caregivers must travel
more than 1 hour from home to the person needing assistance.
- Even the most devoted and able family caregiver needs a
respite from the demands of daily care.
Many seniors have worked hard until retirement and saved for their golden years.
Never before has this segment of the population reached such significant wealth.
In the United States there are 18 million elderly homeowners, with a combined
home equity of over $800 billion.
On the flip side of the coin, married couples today are two income families by
necessity. This fact has created an entire industry revolving around childcare,
housekeeping, and home maintenance issues. In those households where the husband
and wife must both work outside the home in order to make ends meet the issues
of childcare, housekeeping and home maintenance play an important role. These
societal trends have a profound impact on family life. For the employed parent,
it's a tremendous challenge to meet work, childrearing, and household responsibilities.
The number of working mothers has skyrocketed over the past decade:
- More than half of all mothers work outside the home.
- 4 of 5 mothers of school-aged children work.
- 3 of 5 mothers of infants work.
- More than 2/3 of single mothers work.
- In 1950, 61% of children had a stay-at-home mother. Now
the opposite is true: in 2000, 67% of children had working mothers.
22% of the US population must care for their aging parents while raising their
own children as well. One study shows that the average woman spends 17 years raising
children, and 18 years helping aging parents. Fully 30% of these families seek
some paid help to alleviate the burdens of caregiving and managing their household.
* Statistics from the US Census Bureau and the US
Labor Department
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Running your own business takes dedication and discipline. But if you've always
wanted to take control of your own destiny, Home Buddies has all the advantages
you're looking for.
With the Home Buddies system, you're the one in charge, and you'll make the best
decisions for your business based on the needs your community. You won't be limited
by a restrictive franchise agreement.
Home Buddies has been successfully run from a home office for nearly two decades.
Instead of the hassle of a daily commute, enjoy the convenience of working right
from your own home.
Because Home Buddies has no inventory to maintain, no merchandise to display,
and no large staff, your home office doesn't have to be large or fancy, it just
needs to be functional for you. This means your start-up costs for Home Buddies
are much lower than for other businesses that require expensive office or warehouse
space. Many of your client meeting will take place in the client's home or office.
You set your own schedule, and decide how many hours you want to work, and when.
When you own a Home Buddies business, the future is in your hands -- there's no
more waiting for someone else to decide when you deserve a raise or a promotion,
because you're in charge.
Home Buddies gives you the chance to help people improve the quality of their
lives, and the opportunity for personal enrichment and satisfaction that few other
businesses can provide. As a Home Buddies owner, you'll know you made a real difference
by being a part of the Caring Connection in your community.
Without the Home Buddies service, those in need of care often don't know how to
find the best caregiver. You'll be helping the elderly find the compassionate,
qualified care they need to maintain their independence and dignity. Conscientious
parents are looking for assurance that their children will receive loving and
trustworthy care in their absence.
If you've ever felt that your job lacked meaning, you'll find a worthwhile accomplishment
with Home Buddies.
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Simplicity is the key to Home Buddies' success, and our business has
a key difference from other home healthcare providers: instead of employing caregivers
directly, you work merely as an agent between the caregiver and the client.
Other businesses that employ caregivers and pay them a full or part-time salary
are required to track, deduct, and pay taxes to the federal, state, and local
governments, as well as social security for that employee, and issue employee
W-2 employee earnings forms. As any business owner will tell you, simply managing
the overhead of making sure this accounting is performed correctly can be a full-time
job in and of itself.
The Home Buddies difference is that you provide the Caring Connection by matching
a screened, qualified caregiver with a person in need of care. The client hires
the caregiver as an independent contactor, and pays the caregiver a stright fee
without tax or social security deductions. The caregivers themselves, like any
independent contractor, are responsible for their own deductions and tax requirements.
Because this system requires lower overhead, your costs are lower -- more cash
goes to the caregivers, so you can attract the best caregivers with lower turnover.
And because it's simple, you'll be able to focus all your attention on finding
and screening the best caregivers, instead of wrangling with ever-changing tax
regulations.
As part of the Home Buddies system, you'll be provided with all of the legal forms
and contracts you need to make sure the agreement between the caregiver, the client,
and your business is handled correctly.
- No payroll is required
- Lower overhead
- Patrolling, supervising, visiting and micromanaging are kept to a minimum
- Family of client has more control
- Perks and benefits go directly to the caregiver
- Potential customers are attracted because of lower cost, better caregivers,
trust and loyalty of the agency
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When you license a Home Buddies business, you'll have the advantage of our years
of experience in managing a successful, profitable business, year after year.
Being a part of the vitality of the Home Buddies system quickly imparts lessons
and tips learned and from Mary Alice Cannon’s many years of experience, avoiding
pitfalls and money and energy-draining lessons of a new start-up business. As
a licensee, you'll learn:
- Phone technique, interviewing, follow-up
- How to boost business, expand market and increase income
- Office organization
- Identification of every procedure, with forms and templates
- Technique for obtaining the finest caregivers
- Where business is
- Professional sales techniques
- How to deal with issues of geriatric psychology: self-neglect,
conflict resolution, and coping with the physical and spiritual changes associated
with aging
- How to emphasize dignity and autonomy in a person’s life
- Implementing a daily tracking system
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As a Home Buddies licensee, you will:
- Recruit and screen caregivers, using up-to-date techniques
- Interview parents, the elderly, and others in need of caregiving
service
- Match just the right caregiver to create a "Caring
Connection"
- Focus your business based on the needs and demands in your
community.
In a highly competitive and growing marketplace, Home Buddies offers a
simple business model that enables you to achieve success. Home Buddies is a trademark
that provides an identity, along with the essential elements to provide health
care, home care and permanent placement nanny services.
The Home Buddies business objective is to make this idea a reality for other entrepreneurs.
Home Buddies has already shown it can turn a profit, year after year. Our Vision
is to expand The Caring ConnectionSM to new territories, thereby enriching the
lives of people in need.
In order to achieve this vision, Home Buddies is looking for people who choose
to follow their own horizons. Buying a license means that the licensee does not
walk alone to financial freedom and career independence. Home Buddies has created
a map, allowing you to take advantage of the risks we've already taken in developing
a successful business and allowing the you to use that experience to develop your
own personal vision of independence.You have the right to implement the Home Buddies system in your own protected
territory.You are entitled to use the Home Buddies trade name, copyrighted material,
and trade secrets.You'll receive a business procedures manual of step-by-step instructions
on how to set up and run your Home Buddies business, including advertising templates,
sample documents, contracts, and more. We will provide you with initial market research for your desired territory.
During our on-site training in your territory, we review the marketing
and advertising plans for your market. We also visit potential referral sources
and show you how to “Get the Business”. We will walk you through the operating
and office procedures with special attention to the use of over 30 forms plus
the legal contracts you will use.Available on an as-needed basis, additional support and guidance may be
provided.
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Home Buddies is a licensed business with a small initial investment. Our licensing
fees are a one-time startup licensing fee of $2,000, plus 5% of gross income.
Home Buddies offers an opportunity at very low risk.
If the dream of owning your own business has been financially unattainable, Home
Buddies is the opportunity you've been waiting for. Unlike some other business
opportunties, Home Buddies is economical to start and run, so it's ideal for a
home based, part-time, or second-income business.
Compare Home Buddies to other business opportunities, and you'll find our licensing
fee is far less than most franchise start-up costs.
Because you can successfully run your Home Buddies business right from your home,
there's no need for expensive office space.
A Home Buddies business has no inventory to maintain or costly supplies to buy,
so your monthly overhead costs are low.
Your risk is low because you control your expenses. You never have to pay up front
to "stock up" on a product that might never sell.
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