One of the selling techniques used by Living Goods entrepreneurs is door-to-door selling, and Living Goods has been likened to Avon Products in terms of its marketing style.
Also on the list are VillageReach (which charity evaluator GiveWell listed as its top rated charity from 2009 to November 2011), Living Goods (which has been profiled in many media outlets), Bridge International Academies (a for-profit company focused on low-cost private education in the developing world), mothers2mothers, KOMAZA, Samasource, VisionSpring, Root Capital, and The MicroDreams Foundation.
Night of the Living Dead | The Living Daylights | In Living Color | Sky Living | Wilson Sporting Goods | The Living Legend | The Living End | Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 | Living Legends | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Living Single | The Living Church | Living With Fran | living | The Glory of Living | Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia | Fast-moving consumer goods | Discovery Travel & Living | Country Living | Black Country Living Museum | Living Media | Living Free | Living Asia Channel | It's a Living | Goods wagon | Cost of living | You're Living All Over Me | The Living Room | The Living Planet | The Living Enz |
Examples of microfranchises include BRAC's community promoters (in health, agriculture, legal services and other areas), Nuru Energy Entrepreneurs (East Africa and India), Village Phone Program by Grameenphone, CFW -The Healthstore Foundation (Kenya), VisionSpring (reading glasses, formerly Scojo Foundation), Drishtee ICT Kiosks (India), Reach India, Living Goods (Uganda), Healthkeepers (Ghana), and Fan Milk Limited (Ghana).