By author on July 10, 2010
Curves President Mike Raymond Says Widespread Franchise Closures Part of Plan to “Prune the System”; Franchisee Responses Invited More than 1/3 of the domestic Curves fitness club franchises have closed in the past 3 years. In 2009 alone, more than 1000 Curves franchise owners lost their dream businesses… along with their savings, retirement accounts and, […]
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By author on July 3, 2010
Jared Coad claims he is a victim of franchise fraud perpetrated by SolarTEK Energy and SolarTEK CEO Brant Ira Patton. Jared Coad has vowed that unless his $35,000 investment for the Arizona license rights is returned in full, he will dedicate his life to spreading the word that Solartek Energy is a scam. June 14, […]
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By author on June 22, 2010
(UnhappyFranchisee.com) by Sean Kelly We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein Despite the “oil crisis” in the 1970’s, the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and two oil-related Gulf wars, we continue to choose convenient self-delusion over logical, intelligent, honest and […]
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By author on June 19, 2010
BP franchisees are small business owners. They are employers, taxpayers, homeowners & community members. They have expenses, loans, payrolls and mortgages to pay. They have families to support. Yet their American dreams and livelihoods are under attack by a huge insurgency of adversaries calling for their demise and plunge into bankruptcy. // Some of these […]
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By author on May 3, 2010
Make & Take Gourmet was not one of the largest of the ill-fated Meal Prep (Meal Assembly Kitchen) franchise fiascos, but it continues to be one of the most notable.
It seemed pretty clear from public news stories on Make & Take that the founders sold unregistered franchises in violation of franchise laws, that they […]
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By author on March 30, 2010
Little Sunshine’s Playhouse & Preschool franchise website welcomes visitors with a fairy tale:
“Once upon a time there was a happy place where children played in a kingdom of creative encouragement. Where Little Sunshine, Riley B and all their friends across the land grew by leaps and bounds in their magical home away from home.”
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However, […]
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By author on February 3, 2010
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 […]
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By author on February 3, 2010
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, […]
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By author on November 9, 2009
This is a page for the comments of anti-franchising advocate Carol Cross. Carol’s comments are generally moved here from other posts, since they are more general in nature and rarely address the specific post topic.
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