Monthly Archives: April 2011

My project work in franchising

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

There was no map or rule book in testing the limits of the industry. By nature, these were all unreasonable actions from the conventional viewpoint. To me, they were just taking one step ahead of the other. national franchisee association … Continue reading →

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I work from home too

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

I am quite effective doing it for a wide range of clients. Inground sprinklers. Landscaping lighting. Business consulting. Email Indexing Service (wiki). Speaking. Marketing. Sales. Projects. Any landscape projects planned this season in the GTA or central ON? Midhurst, ON … Continue reading →

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Only Franchisee PE can combat franchisor private equity

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Franchisees need to invest in a private capital fund. Not just hang out wasting time. [ArtistsandArt.org]

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Franchising is a total institution ruled by fear: A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive … Continue reading →

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Due diligence cannot prevent much greater post-sale risks

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Risk assessment is a snap-shot. Franchising favours the house (franchisor). If you play a Game of Chance know before you begin If you are benevolent you will never win. – William Blake 1757 – 1827

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Franchising is a carnival

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

A sideshow. Life is a Carnival, The Band on Saturday Night Live in 1976 You can walk on the water, drown in the sand You can fly off a mountaintop if anybody can Run away, run away–it’s the restless age … Continue reading →

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Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

This is why WikidFranchise exists in its present form. It’s a witness to those mentioned. Everything terrible is something that needs our love. And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer … Continue reading →

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

If franchising defeated you, that’s a very good thing. Realizing that it’s all bound together, is an important very big defeat/win. The birth of a distinct people is an isolating and troubling process. How could we we forget those ancient … Continue reading →

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Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death.

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul. Campbell: Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is … Continue reading →

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You’re a kid again once the lizard brain takes over

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

Under pressure, you recognize the bully’s voice. And time melts away. [click it, cOnfus3 m3]

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