Roofing franchise contractors often have several related business under one roof. This leads to economies of scale and can mean that each individual business is more profitable than it would have been otherwise.

Advertising agencies are service-type businesses concerned with originating, development and managing advertising for a client. Advertising agencies are autonomous and are thus able to maintain an independent and outside point of view while attempting to sell the customer's services or products. Advertising agencies can also prepare and present all strategies to promote and market brands or products.

One real estate company appears in the Entrepreneur Magazine's 2006 ''Top Ten” list. The company is Re-Max Int'l Inc., established in 1973 in Denver, Colorado by Dave and Gail Liniger. The company began franchising their concept two years later in 1975. Under the Re-Max plan, agents jointly own the business, which provides for maximum commission earnings; agents are in charge and share office expenses equally.

Radio advertising has long been a method of promoting a product. An advertisement on the radio is targeted in a number of ways. Generally, people will choose to listen to only one or two stations on the radio, largely because the stations in question play the type of music the listener prefers. So, by selecting a particular musical focus, the advertiser is also selecting the audience which will hear the ad presented. This listener loyalty is at the heart of radio's excellent targetability. Once the station has been selected, an advertiser can target an even more select group by choosing the time of day that the advertisement will be aired.