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Keeping Up With The Neighbors. Can Green Lawn Care Franchises Make A Difference?

   

My lawn's greener! No,my lawn's greener! A common friendly little neighborhood argument that takes place every summer around the country. If you feel that you have the nicest, greenest lawn on the street, but you use a franchise lawn service like Spring-Green, or Natural Lawn, instead of spending 5-8 hours a week slaving away like Mr. Perfection, 3 doors down, who is the real winner????

According to The Columbus Dispatch, the real competition for the greenest lawn on your street takes place in the trenches. The trenches of franchise warfare, that is....Read.

Global warming facts.
A new Green Mom blogger.
Share this new website with a green franchise company
The Dot Gov Is Now Green!

Career Choice Time:Get A Job? Or Get Your Own Business?

With all the downsizings and layoffs that are happening around the country, lots of folks are feeling the heat, if they are out of a job..... So what will a job do for you? {Besides provide some steady income} What types of jobs are growing, and what types of jobs are disappearing?

My role as a franchise consultant enables me to help those that are not interested in pursuing a job. My goal is to move someone away from corporate America, and into a business of their own.

This Franchise Has Been Green For Years!

A lot of small businesses are jumping on the Green bandwagon, and this blogger thinks that it is important to do so. Some franchise concepts can start off their Green initiatives with simple things like replacing old light bulbs with newer, more energy efficient ones.This may seem like a minuscule thing to do, but if all the franchise companies nationwide did it, it would save a lot of energy!

There are even some franchise concepts to get involved in that have been Green since their inception. Would you like top know which one I am talking about?   

Small Business Expert Of The Week

WOW! I want to publicly thank the fine folks over at Work.com for naming me
"Business Expert Of The Week." You made this guy smile.

Read about it on the Work.com Community Blog...

By the way, The Work.com website just surpassed 10,000 written guides!

Congrats!!

Pickles And Ice Cream

I just had to. I have no idea if this franchise is good, bad, or successful. But the name is the best one I have heard this year. My friends over at the Daily Franchise News are reporting that this franchise chain  is expanding. {Yes, ladies. Expanding...}
It is called Pickles And Ice Cream Maternity Apparel!

Read...

Here are some other great franchise names

Small Business/Franchise Related Podcasts For Your Listening Pleasure

                                                      

          The Franchise King is decreeing the following for his Royal Subjects this weekend:

I, Joel Libava, The Franchise King, order you, my Royal Subjects, to give your eyes a much needed break from visual media of all sorts, including PC's, Laptops, TV's, and such, so that you may use 2 organs that may be getting a little lonely, in this here Kingdom.

                                                 

         
Here are some great informational audio links on Small Business & Franchising for your enjoyment.....   
          Have a nice weekend!

• Anita Campbell: The Power Of Us
• Yaro Starak: Enthusiasm In Biz&Life
• Joel Libava: Franchise Activity And The Economy
• Richard DeKaser of National City Bank: Economic Myths-Truths
• Tom Gegax Of TiresPlus: By the Seat Of Your Pants
• KTU: A Green Franchise

THIS Franchisee Loves Helping Others

      

           
         Sanderson PR 

The fine folks at Sanderson PR shared an uplifting story today about a franchisee of Express Employment Professionals, the re-branded name of Express Personnel, out of Oklahoma. This is a great week for Express. I just mentioned some positive stuff about Express's CEO, Bob Funk, on my weekly AllBusiness.com article. He stepped up big time, and wrote a $50k check last December to the American Red Cross after the ice storms in Oklahoma.

In Sanderson's Daily Franchise News Blog, they profile Palbinder Badesha, a California franchise owner of express Employment Professionals, who says “There is no better thrill than helping someone get a job – it really does change their life,.”Badesha opened her Express Employment Professionals office in March 2006 in Corona, California

Read the rest of the article on the Daily Franchise News, here...

Is a staffing business in your future? Is any franchise-type business in your future?

Please go to our company website, and find out if we can help you select a great franchise to own!

Of course you can TakeTheFranchiseQuiz.com

{Not to be confused with a copycat version, in which this franchise brokerage firm requires you to give them pages and pages of personal info before you can take their "test"}

Solar Panel Franchises. My Servers Are Overloaded!

                                             
                                                      

                                                Ok! OK! OK!!
I get it! Gas prices are over $4.00. My wife just put 11 gallons in her Mitsubishi Galant, and it cost $50. She came home, and proceeded to throw up!

Does my wife's aggravation have anything to do with the uptick in folks clicking my "Solar Panel Franchises" articles from the past year? Is it a coincidence? Is it President Bush? Does his announcement that he wants to start more offshore drilling of oil have anything to do with today's interest in Solar Panel Franchises? I have no idea. Is Solar Energy our answer? Please let me know in the comment area! I want to know!!!

You are now free to move about the cabin. Here are the articles in question:

A Solar Power Franchise Concept!

January 2008. Interest Is High On All Things Solar

April 2008 Update On Solar Franchises

Ok. Buy a Solar Panel, Here!

Check A Jim Kukral's Wife's Green Blog

Another Friend's Green Stuff. A Wiki.

Rooster's Franchising Strategy Worth Watching

A Central Ohio restaurant franchisor. With no corporate headquarters? Named after an animal that goes"Kakadoodledoooooooo!"

                                                      

No, I am not making this up, like a certain  other website's writer's seem to be doing..quite often. This really is a franchise that you could invest in. Rooster's would like you to have real live restaurant experience, which is certainly a welcome change, in this blogger's eyes. As a matter of fact, I am going to call up the president of Rooster's, and offer my incredible marketing talent. They should be here, don't ya think???

Anyway, it is time for you to read their story. It is one that you will find quite refreshing...

Here.

New Franchise Follies Website 2nd Website To Break News Of New Angelina Jolie-Pitt Franchise!

WOW! A "getting kinda popular" new franchise website, recently launched by this blogger, is getting a tremendous amount of traffic today, by being not the 1st, but the 2nd major small business website to break some celebrity news, today.

Franchise Follies has the story on this new Jolie-Pitt future franchise offering. The blogosphere is humming with the news, and a few bloggers are getting creative, by coming up with some new names for these "clinics." I have a feeling that mine will win out, though.

      

  Mine:

 

"A Womb With a View" 

A Green, Wormy Interview Tuesday On Small Business Trends Radio

Steve Rucinski, and Anita Campbell have a weekly radio program focusing on today's Small Business Trends. This week, a Green subject is being discussed, as Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle, discusses the recycling of plastics, and how his company converts plastics etc. into useable products. Great stuff! 

Click here for the radio show

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