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Monthly Archives: March 2009
3 charged with businessman murder
As first reported on Feb 25th on FranchiseFool, a Toronto UPS Store was murdered (UPS franchisee slain in Toronto, Canada). In a March 29th update in a Toronto Star article by Sunny Freeman named 3 charged in death of businessman. … Continue reading
Franchising Burning: How to deal with Bullies
Did I mention that I think Gene Hackman is a genius? I do not universally like or dislike any side in any disagreement. I simply oppose abuse, bullying and stupidity. I refuse to allow myself to be bullied and I … Continue reading
WSJ Franchising Review: WikidFranchise.org
Thanks to Richard Gibson at the Wall Street Journal for his mention of WikidFranchise, the franchise industry’s first wiki that John Johnson and I edit. In an article entitled Blogs Provide Insight to Would-Be Franchisees, Gibson gives a thumbs-up review, … Continue reading
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Low Quality in Franchising is based on Ignorance & Misunderstandings
Predatory practices in franchising are simply low quality behaviors by low quality individuals. They get away with it because of ignorance. I don’t really care two hoots what anyone’s ethics or morals are. I only care in moving to a … Continue reading
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man smart, Women Smarter: Defining franchisee illness
When I was growing up, no one knew about eating disorders as a class of medical problems. It was only through the suffering of many (mostly women) that society and the medical establishment has recognized things like bulemia nervosa and … Continue reading
Posted in Partners in Franchising
Tagged Karen Carpenter, Man Smart Woman Smarter, The Carpenters
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Partners in Franchising: Families protecting families
Franchises are very often family businesses. Franchisees have never been alone in evaluating, operating or problem solving a franchised business. The greatest abuses are heaped on family businesspeople. Legally, they are on the hook for 50% of the results anyway. … Continue reading
Nemesis: Agents sent to create a downfall (hubris)
Great fun when IndFAs think they are strong enough to compete with franchisors. Tremendous sport, really. hubris n. 1 arrogant pride or presumption. 2 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. Nemesis Gk … Continue reading
Posted in Independent Franchisee Association, IndFA
Tagged Meaning of Life, Monty Python
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How to use the Big Bad Union Man to sabotage an excellent IndFA
You convince them to betray the principles that underlay their success. Organizations are not destroyed from external pressure: They die from internal corruption and the terminally ill like company. Those that can’t lead or build can only destroy via deceit. … Continue reading
WikidFranchise.org: Free internet information sharing
Understanding franchising on the internet is very difficult because there is too much sales puffery and too little indexing. John Johnson and I think we have way to explain franchising through media articles that have already been published. We’ve put … Continue reading
