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Oxi Fresh Launches SEO Optimized Franchise Website
Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning®, the environmentally friendly, all-natural carpet cleaning company, is proud to announce they have debuted a brand new and improved website: www.oxifresh.com. The new site features an improved design and added navigation features to allow customers to quickly and easily find their way to different pages within the site. Featured on every [...]
Oxi Fresh Launches SEO Optimized Franchise Website
Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning®, the environmentally friendly, all-natural carpet cleaning company, is proud to announce they have debuted a brand new and improved website: www.oxifresh.com. // < ![CDATA[ google_ad_client = "pub-8881555548528513"; /* 250x250, created 11/12/09 */ google_ad_slot = "7883201795"; google_ad_width = 250; google_ad_height = 250; // ]]> The new site features an improved design and [...]
WIRELESS TOYZ: Joe Barbat Claims Lazy Franchisees Have Selves to Blame
Joe Barbat claims that Wireless Toyz franchise investors have themselves to blame for their failures.
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According to a Local 4 Defenders video report posted on Click On Detroit, the Wireless Toyz founder accused of fraud said that if the franchisees suing him had worked as hard as he had, they’d be rich, too. Barbat’s allegedly [...]
WIRELESS TOYZ: Joe Barbat Fraud Trials
Known for his mini-mansion, fast cars, and millionaire lifestyle, Joe Barbat, founder of the 200 unit Wireless Toyz franchise chain, was named to the Crain’s 40 under 40 list in 2005. In 2007, Barbat was named as Entrepreneur of the Year by Detroit-based firm Ernst & Young.
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More recently, however, he’s named as a defendant [...]
DIVERSIFIED HEALTH: Testimonials From Failed Franchisees
Today’s amusing lesson in why you should dig deeper than the franchisor’s franchise marketing web page comes to us from Diversified Health & Fitness.
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Diversified Health & Fitness, founded by “Dynamic leader, Successful Entrepreneur, Steadfast Friend and beloved Father” Roger Wittenberns, is sort of the fitness industry hospice for terminally ill franchise chains.
If you look [...]
DIVERSIFIED HEALTH: Fit For Her Members Cry Fraud
“"Diversified Health has a pattern of doing this same type of thing, where they open a franchise and then go out of business and continue to draft the member’s accounts." Jim Hall, Nautilus Fitness Centers, Sherman, TX
Franchise owner Ray Shoaf has high praise for Diversified Health & Fitness, the Fort Lauderdale-based conglomeration that collects and [...]
Oxi Fresh Supports Franchisees With Central Scheduling Center
Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning books jobs, maintains schedules for fast-growing franchise chain.
Owning a franchise should give the small business owner an unfair advantage over the competition. After all, that’s why they pay a franchise fee and agree to follow the franchisor’s guidelines, right?
Oxi Fresh President Jonathan Barnett, MBA agrees.
Since first launching the fast-growing Oxi Fresh [...]
Franchise Food Fights
Franchisees and Franchisors go to war over discounting, advertising.
Marketing strategy and use of advertising funds has always been an area of heated debate between franchisors and franchisees, especially in the foodservice segment of franchising. The recession, declining sales and a trend toward deep price discounting and product giveaways has heated the debate past the boiling [...]
JANITORIAL FRANCHISE ISSUES
Starting a business of buying a really bad job?
Jani-King (#8). Jan-Pro (#11). Stratus Building Solutions (#13). Vanguard Cleaning Systems(#30). ServiceMaster (#30). Bonus Building Care (#32). And Anago Cleaning Systems (#49).
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Entrepreneur magazine has named 7 commercial cleaning franchises in the top 50 positions of its 2010 Franchise 500 rankings. (Coverall, which hasn’t participated since 2007, [...]
JANI-KING Franchise Complaints
Entrepreneur magazine lavishes high praise on the Jani-King franchise opportunity via its 2010 franchise rankings. Entrepreneur ranked the 10,000+ unit Jani-King #8 overall in the 2010 Franchise 500, the #2 low-cost franchise, the #1 home-based franchise and #7 in the “America’s Best Global Franchise” category.
Of course, Entrepreneur states that when compiling their rankings they do [...]
