We want you to be sure that joining The Family Grapevine Group is the right decision for you. There are several other magazines offering franchises and home publishing businesses such as Raring2Go, Families, Primary Times, Parents News, ABC and Parents Pages. It is important to choose the one which meets your preferences and ambitions most closely. Consider what will happen if you want to divert from the business system (is this allowed?) and check if you are allowed to continue in the publishing business locally, or indeed at all, if you leave the group.

Of course you could do it all on your own, but a group has lots of advantages. You will have access to a tried and tested business system. You can learn from your predecessors' experience and mistakes! You can potentially make faster progress and go into profit sooner. Working at home can be very isolating and keeping motivated after a string of rejections can be gutty, so good personal support is invaluable. Using a group's names and trademarks allows you to benefit from its reputation. If you want your business to be stronger in the face of competition, talk to editors local to you and make sure that they cooperate with each other and respect each other's territories.

This comparison table will help you to compare what the different groups offer. We have done our best to provide up to date information, but naturally you should check our facts and make your own investigations. Please let us know if you know of any other groups we could feature.

None of these businesses offers you a 'get rich quick' scheme or any guarantees. Whichever you choose you will have to work hard to reap rewards. However, one of the advantages of home publishing is that if you stick at it through the tough beginning stages it gets easier as you go along. Your skills will grow and if your publication is popular you will attract higher and higher levels of readvertising and unsolicited bookings.