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Buy a Franchise. Change The World.
At the risk of sounding sappy, I’m going unveil one of my most passionately held beliefs about small business start-ups, regardless of whether it’s a franchise opportunity or independent venture: I believe that the only valid reason for starting a new business is to change the world.
This belief is not based on pie-in-the-sky idealism, but [...]
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Domi-Nose Franchisee Could Lose Franchise
The Conover, North Carolina Domino’s franchisee whose employees filmed themselves doing gross things to a customer’s food, then posted the video on YouTube, may get disenfranchised.
Get the backstory here: Domino’s YouTube Employees Arrested
According to a WCNC report:
CONOVER, N.C. — The owner of a local Domino’s Pizza could lose his franchise because of fallout from a [...]
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PLAY N TRADE Franchise Registration Revoked
When FranchisePick.com asked IS PLAY N TRADE A GREAT FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY?, we got an earful… and 100+ comments.
According to Unhappy Franchisee, the California Department of Corporations has issued their opinion of the video game retail franchisor Play N Trade, and it ain’t good.
In fact, California is revoked the unit registration, denied the master franchise registration [...]
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Diversified Health & Fitness Responds
In yesterday’s post on the acquisition of the 1-2-3 FIT franchise chain (1-2-3 FIT Sold to Diversified Health), I pointed out that Fort Lauderdale-based Diversified Health & Fitness has been aggressively buying up the assets of dead, dying and severely wounded franchised fitness chains.
Two years of writing about and commiserating with the franchisees of these [...]
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Domino’s Franchisee Gets Social (Media, That is)
Here’s a great story about a Domino’s franchisee who has taken the initiative to learn about social media, and to use the many tools of Web 2.0 to build business. I interact regularly with this franchisee on Twitter, and that’s how I learned about this blog story. Check out the full post at Chicago Domino’s [...]
Smart Marketing Vehicle for Hard Times
In tough economic times, smart companies look for ways to do more with less. They seek out innovative ways to leverage their existing assets to do double duty – like using delivery and service vehicles as marketing and branding vehicles… transforming modes of transportation into moving billboards for little-to-no additional cost.
That’s exactly what the pest [...]
BEN & JERRY’S: It’s Free Cone Day!
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day is a tradition that goes all the way back to the legendary days when Ben & Jerry were a couple of happy hippies selling ice cream out of a converted gas station. Despite the fact that Ben & Jerry’s is now an international brand owned by Unilever, B&J still [...]
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1-2-3 FIT Sold to Diversified Health
There’s an ancient saying that’s been passed down through generations of fitness franchise bloggers: Old Fitness Franchises Never Die, They Just Get Acquired by Diversified Health & Fitness.
And just as Blogstradamous predicted, the troubled and troubling 1-2-3 FIT franchise chain was sighted being led across a misty field by a grim character carrying a scythe [...]
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Karen Stewart, Fairway Divorce Solutions
Can divorce be franchised? Karen Stewart says it can. In fact, she’s already doing it.
Karen Stewart is Founder and CEO of Fairway Divorce Solutions. With 9 locations in Canada, Fairway Divorce Solutions provides an alternative approach to divorce—a fixed fee, step-by-step independent negotiated resolution process. The Fairway Process™ reduces costs, time, stress, and protects children. [...]
DIVORCE: The Franchise Opportunity
Karen Stewart’s revolutionary idea is now a ground-floor franchise opportunity.
Unfortunately, divorce is a fact of modern life.
Even more unfortunately, the American system of high priced attorneys doing battle at $500 an hour exact high financial and personal costs from today’s families.
Fortunately, Karen Stewart has created an alternative.
And even more fortunately, she is enabling qualified professionals [...]
