The business the best suits your needs and experience will take time to research the more time you spend the wiser choice you will make as you will discover that very few will fit your personal criteria at first the idea buying your first business exciting although the choices can be overwhelming their few gems in the mountains still so to make your mining for gold easier start sifting through your personal criteria for example if you don't like all calling up for an established business with an established clientele if you're uncomfortable selling to friends and family don't enter into a multi-level situation if working seven days a week is not for you avoid retail businesses come in all shapes and sizes with close to 70 percent being in the service sector following is an outline that the six main types of businesses that you may be researching one service to retail 3 franchising for manufacturing five distribution and six multi-level network marketing service businesses that majority of new entrepreneur started service business because it's the easiest way to generate income utilizing their many years of experience what is a service business quite simply one that performs the service return for feet which is usually calculated on an hourly or contract to a leafy the bases service businesses include consulting accounting bookkeeping wept as I'd all the trades teaching and tourism just to name a few clients will pay for your expertise and knowledge number two retail retail outlets not only compete with each other they also compete with large chain stores manufacturer outlets and multi-level internet & mail-order sales however if you carefully target your market your chances a big success will increase although internet sales are making small inroads in the retail shopping rethink consumer research indicates that more than sixty percent a potential online shoppers abandon the site before buying web sites must be easy to read answer for friendly which many are not so although retail competition has increased from these two sectors big-box in the internet service it's still the winning factor that will entice consumers into your store because in most cases you can't compete with pricing some factors to consider.