Is WikiFranchise.org the most important educational innovation in mom-and-pop franchise investing?

Yes.

Ever? Yes.

WikiFranchise.org: since Feb 2009.

About.

How many of the 25,000 Syrian refugees will become cannon fodder to the franchise industry via government guaranteed liar loans?

Several thousand, I’d imagine.

How? The moral hazard-riddled, Canada Small Business Financing Program.

Details:

• WikiFranchise.org: Immigrants as Prey, Cannon fodder, Language shortcomings create a vulnerability
• Franchising Opportunism, 2005 paper

 

 

 

Hansard does not record standing ovations.

For what it’s worth…

The Acting Speaker (Mr. Jim Wilson): Pursuant to standing order 98, the honourable member has 12 minutes for her presentation.

HELENA JACZEK, MPP

Ms. Helena Jaczek: At the outset I would like to make sure that everyone knows that this bill, Bill 102, An Act to amend the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, is co-sponsored by my colleague from Parkdale–High Park and my colleague from Parry Sound–Muskoka. I think that this type of collaboration is something our constituents expect of us. We know that in our ridings many people did not actually vote for us or our party and it is our duty to represent them in this House wherever we can. It has been certainly an interesting and very satisfying experience to work with my two colleagues on this particular bill.

I’d also like to recognize in the west members’ gallery some supporters of the bill: Les Stewart, the founder of the Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators, and Detective Fred Kerr, the corporate fraud manager for York Regional Police’s major fraud unit.

…

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
September 23, 2010

• http://infofranpro.wikidot.com/20100923-second-jaczek1
• http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=2010-09-23&Parl=39&Sess=2&locale=en#P953_222324

My project work in franchising

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 (Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators),
• defined Big Franchising,
• manual archive of published articles,
• investigate government guaranteed loans (predatory franchise lending),
• multi-million dollar one party lawsuit,
• group lawsuit (Grand & Toy, Tupperware),
• request made to for support from Ontario government (letter/proposal: Information Sharing Project),
• class action,
• digital archive of documents (WikiFranchise),
• national attorneyless franchisee association (National Bread Network),
• franchisee-created trademark system wiki,
• a franchisee-funded private equity structure (The Grange Fund).

Not bad.

[At Play]

Franchising creates and enforces a caste system

Franchisor opportunism can be both very rare and effective in enforcing obedience.

Obedience is enforced by controlling intra-species and inter-franchisee communication and contact.

Annual meetings, bulk emails, newsletters, site visits and faux franchisee-friendly social sites get the lesson out:

stay in your place or suffer the consequences.

The means may change but the objective stays the same.

[What was Jim Crow?, Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia]

I am McWikiLeaks

If you see something, scan/OCR/index something.

The technology just collapsed everything down to one person per system.

[Adbusters]

Where do you get unbiased franchise war reporting?

Certainly not from salespeople, captured academics or industry talking heads.

Learn from those reporting back from their own experiences via published media articles. They’re captivating war stories in many “veterans” perspectives.

Read WikiFranchise.org for the closest-to reality check you’ll get.

At least so far.

Learn modern commercial warfare tactics from  specific executives, trademark systems and business risks.

[eXperi-MENTAL]

What WikiLeaks is to diplomacy…

…WikiFranchise.org is to franchising.

Which is related to a custom franchise system-specific wiki.

Now we’re talking.

[eXperi-MENTAL]

Franchising is just one big, fat, cruel inside joke.

Once you understand the terms, most jokes can be understood by almost anyone.

That is what WikiFranchise.org does: with a little bit of your work, it lets you in on the joke.

Asymptote: In analytic geometry, an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity. Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this is unusual for modern authors.

A simple example:

[BlackenedButterfly]

WikiFranchise is an inventory of franchise effects

I saw the power of manually adding up franchisee investor case studies in 1999.

McLuhan explained the explosive nature of doing that digitally (electrically).

When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience. The work of the artist is to find patterns.

In a sense, WikiFranchise.org is creative: a masterpiece rooted in thousands of peoples’ lives/experiences.