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Posts Tagged ‘franchises’
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 2nd August 2007.
People interested in franchising might well be interested to hear about the Kent Franchising Exhibition happening next month. It’s a show that does what it says on the tin - if you’re thinking of franchising and are in the area the show should give you some ideas.
The interesting thing for me is that this seems [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 18th July 2007.
I see Google has launched a small business search service. There will no doubt be a lot of people out there wanting to put a search box on their pages so that loggers-on will find them easier to use. The website I’ve cited queries the cost; no doubt this will sort itself out in time.
The [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 12th July 2007.
Forgive the day-late posting but I was having my hair cut yesterday. Not much of a momentous occasion, you might think, and let’s be honest you’d have a point. However, it’s relevant because the Rush people, who beautify the Clapperton bonce, operate on the franchise model. And the bloke who was cutting my hair has [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 5th July 2007.
Now this is the sort of thing I like. Long-term readers might recall a few weeks ago I mentioned what I saw as the pointlessness of franchises entering and winning franchise awards since not all franchises shared anything in common.
There were a few comments, not least from the guv’nor round these parts, suggesting I wasn’t [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 13th June 2007.
OK, first an apology - no civilised human being should ever use a word as clunky as ‘franchiseable’, let alone put it in a headline. Anyone with any ideas for a substitute is welcome to get in touch.
Nevertheless, I was reading an interesting article the other day on how you know your organisation is ready [...]
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