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Career Changers
You’re successful but frustrated, burned out, unfulfilled, or simply ready to consider a different path.
Career crossroads? Start with your options.
From “What’s Next?” to “What’s Possible?”
Another job may be one option—but it doesn’t have to be your only option. Explore whether business ownership could fit your personal, professional, lifestyle, and financial goals before you make your next move.
No direct coaching fee to learn, explore, and determine whether business ownership may be right for you.
IncomeExplore ways ownership may expand your earning options.
LifestyleConsider models aligned with how you want to work and live.
WealthUnderstand how ownership can create an asset—not just a paycheck.
EquityExplore the possibility of building value in something you own.
Who this is for
You may not be looking for a franchise.
You may simply be looking for what’s next.
The strongest clients are motivated people willing to learn, explore, make informed decisions, and take action. You do not need to arrive knowing that business ownership is the answer.
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Displaced or At-Risk Professionals
You’re job searching, recently laid off, or thinking seriously about career security—and want to understand your alternatives.
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Aspiring Entrepreneurs
You’ve thought about owning a business, but you’re unsure what to own, where to start, or how to evaluate the options.
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Executives Planning the Next Chapter
You’re approaching retirement but not necessarily ready to stop building, earning, leading, or contributing.
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Income & Wealth Builders
You may like your career, but you want to explore additional income streams and asset-building outside employment.
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Existing Business Owners
You want to explore another business or franchise as a way to diversify revenue and reduce dependence on a single business.
The ownership journey
Explore → Evaluate → Fund → Launch → Grow
Finding a business is not the finish line. The process is designed to help you understand your options, make a better-informed decision, and—if ownership is right for you—move toward building a thriving business.
Explore
Define your goals, priorities, and what you want business ownership to make possible.
Outcome: clarity about whether ownership belongs on your list.Evaluate
Identify and compare franchise opportunities, then navigate validation and due diligence.
Outcome: a more informed view of the right-fit opportunities.Fund
Learn about financing approaches and connect with appropriate funding and financial resources.
Outcome: a clearer picture of how an investment could be funded.Launch
Access legal, accounting, franchise, and other professional resources as you move toward opening.
Outcome: a smoother transition from candidate to owner.Grow
Develop the marketing mindset, resources, and connections needed to attract customers and grow.
Outcome: focus on building the business—not just buying it.Why Denise
Start with the person.
Not the franchise.
The goal is not to find someone for a franchise. It is to help you determine whether ownership is right, then identify a business that aligns with your goals.
“I’m here to help you make the right decision—not simply a decision.”
Talk With Denise
Education before decision
Understand the landscape, the questions to ask, and the tradeoffs before you commit to a direction.
Personalized guidance
Evaluate opportunities against your personal, professional, lifestyle, and financial goals—not a generic “best franchise” list.
Validation & due diligence support
Learn how to investigate the business, speak with owners, compare models, and become a better-informed buyer.
Funding & professional resources
Get connected with appropriate specialists for funding, accounting, legal, and other ownership needs.
Support beyond the transaction
The objective is not simply “you bought a franchise.” It is helping you build toward a successful, thriving, growing business.
Support after you become an owner
Marketing Tools, Referral Partners & Business Services
Buying the business is only the beginning. I help business owners think beyond launch by connecting them with marketing resources, growth tools, and trusted professional services that can help them attract customers, strengthen operations, and build a thriving business.
Marketing & Growth Tools for Business Owners
Depending on your business and growth goals, I can help you evaluate marketing options and connect you with resources that support visibility, lead generation, follow-up, and customer growth.
GROW
LinkedIn & Professional Outreach
LinkedIn content, networking, direct outreach, and Sales Navigator strategies for targeted prospecting.
Social Media Marketing
Facebook, Facebook Groups, Instagram, and branded social content to stay visible and build relationships.
Email Marketing & Nurture
Newsletters, campaigns, prospect nurturing, and direct email outreach designed to keep your business top of mind.
Lead Generation & Direct Outreach
Prospecting approaches that can include direct email, phone outreach, networking, and relationship-based business development.
Website, SEO & Blogging
Resources for improving online presence, search visibility, educational content, and landing-page conversion.
Video & YouTube
Video marketing resources for education, authority building, customer trust, and ongoing content creation.
Webinars, Speaking & Events
Educational webinars, seminars, speaking opportunities, and community events that help create awareness and leads.
Referral & Networking Development
Strategies for building relationships with referral sources, chambers, Alignable, professional groups, and local networks.
Referral Partners & Professional Services
You do not have to build every part of the business alone. My resource network can help connect you with specialists for important ownership, launch, financial, and growth needs.
CONNECT
Business Funding & Financing
Connections to appropriate business funding resources and financing professionals.
SBA Financing Resources
Access to professionals who can help business owners understand and evaluate SBA financing options.
Retirement / ROBS Funding
Introductions to qualified resources for retirement-based business funding when appropriate.
Accounting & Financial Professionals
Connections to accounting, financial, and business-planning resources that support sound ownership decisions.
Legal & Professional Services
Introductions to legal and other professional resources that may be important during launch and ownership.
Marketing & Specialized Business Support
Connections to marketing providers and other specialized business-support professionals based on the owner's needs.
How I fit in: I remain a resource and connector throughout the ownership journey.
My overarching coaching and business-ownership guidance does not carry a direct consulting fee to the client.
Independent third-party providers may charge their own fees for services you choose to use.
Ask About Owner Resources
The goal is not just to open the business—it is to help you build one that can grow and thrive.
Explore first. Decide later.
Denise’s overarching coaching and business ownership guidance is provided without a direct coaching or consulting fee to the client. That means you can learn about ownership, explore opportunities, and become better educated before deciding what—if anything—you want to do next.
Denise DeTommaso
Career Ownership Coach
Experienced. Empowering. Energizing.
You don’t have to figure all of this out by yourself.
Business ownership can be one of the biggest career and financial decisions you make. Denise’s role is to be a coach, educator, guide, connector, and trusted advisor through the process.
You remain in control. The goal is not to pressure you toward ownership—it is to help you understand your choices, ask better questions, compare the right opportunities, and make the decision that fits your future.
“You don’t need to know today whether you want to own a business. But if you’re questioning what’s next, you owe it to yourself to understand your options.”
Explore Your OptionsCommon questions
Before you make your next career decision, get better informed.
Do I need to be ready to buy a business before we talk?
No. You do not have to know that you want to own a business. The first step is simply exploring whether ownership could fit your goals.
Can I look for a job and explore business ownership at the same time?
Yes. Another job may still be the right choice. Exploring business ownership gives you another option to evaluate while you continue your job search.
How much does the coaching cost?
There is no direct coaching or consulting fee to work with Denise to learn, explore, and evaluate franchise ownership. Denise is compensated primarily through referral relationships when clients move forward with participating franchise companies or service providers. Some independent third-party services may have their own fees.
What if business ownership turns out not to be right for me?
That is a valid outcome. The purpose of the process is to help you make an informed decision—not to force a transaction.
How do we find the right franchise?
The process begins with you: your goals, skills, finances, lifestyle, and priorities. Only then does the search move to business models and opportunities that may align with those criteria.
Your next step
Keep exploring your current options.
Add business ownership to the list.
You have nothing to lose by becoming better educated about your choices. A conversation can help you understand whether business ownership deserves a place in your future.
Schedule a Conversation