Recent comments en Same old routines - gets boring - who said Jazzercise is fresh?? <p>You offer a lot of routines for the instructors. Why do they keep the same format for months?</p> <p>I am so bored by the same music . Are they too lazy to learn new ones? I was so bored in class tonight doing the same music I did 3 weeks ago.</p> <p>Jazzercise is not Fresh.</p> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:27:02 +0000 comment 136695 at EWS owes me thousands <p>EWS has not paid me for nearly a year on my joint venture account. My estimate is they owe me $7,000 and counting. They said they were going to make me an "offer" 9 months ago but they no longer return calls or emails ( , ) . 700 EWS Affiliates paid 20k for their guidance and assistance and now EWS is pulling the plug and tells me I have to sign a new agreement that has a horrible commission split. All EWS affiliates should ban together in a lawsuit. Sherry Barshaw, Donna Fothergill, Doug Maher, Darwyn Williams, Diana Shapiro should all be criminally prosecuted for abandoning 700 affiliates that paid $20,000 for their affiliation. I want a refund for the cost of the affiliation and the monies owed to me for the Healthcare Realty Account. I worked for 6 months full time on that account.</p> <p>Brandon<br /> EWS Affiliate- 6 years<br /></p> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:11:07 +0000 comment 136498 at better franchises then UPS <p>There are plenty of BETTER out there. SAFE SHIP is by far the best I have found . better then any other concept I have researched. More shipping options,. and also better services available.<br /> CHECK THEM OUT YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID</p> Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:49:09 +0000 comment 136497 at Websites <p>Of all the U.S. Franchises still listed on the locator that give you the option to order online, I could not find even one working website. It comes up either the domain cannot be found or the server can't be found. Makes you wonder how many are actually still going. I am SO surprised the Wheelers have not gone into bankruptcy yet. At this point, I think they are probably just trying to get whatever money they can out of those who did not fulfill the 5 year contract and just stopped paying the monthly fee. Very sad situation!</p> Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:38:46 +0000 comment 136496 at Old posting <p>I do realize this is a very old posting from 2008 to 2012. I just noted that Facts Weakly''' last post on their Facebook was 2012. They only sold content.. no brand. How does that ever compete? Don't bother. Printing is EXPENSIVE. I am not saying this just because I don't want competition. (I have enough with papers and radio and now Facebook billionaire). I'm saying it more because I am helping you to save time and money. Like I said I've seen 10 copycats come and go. There is now an 11th running currently. A monthly. It even looks like Coffee News a bit. Copied our racks. Some people are pretty disgusting and have a lot of nerve. Bad Karma I say. Just save your time and money. They usually suffer it out for 6 months. Number 10 did. Honestly my readership has risen (again) since they started. It's the way it goes. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. God damn that's all I need is to print MORE again!! </p> <p>I also want to ad that in 20 years I've had clients blown away by results. TOO BUSY and quit. One client guessed he had 1000 calls in 10 days. He was on the phone 9 hours a day. True, it's my best story, but it was only a training class. ? go figure. He got one call from a VERY expensive radio ad, back before iPods and iTunes. About 8 calls from the local newspaper. 1000 calls from Coffee News. The very first week I printed Coffee News I went around selling more ads. In 5 days I spoke with several people. 70 percent of them said they saw it already. This was 1994. Now more people eat out than ever before. </p> <p>So if you're thinking of buying a Coffee News. Know that you have to love people and love pounding the pavement for the first while. Many Coffee News have failed, because they are the wrong type of person.<br /> If you decide to do a copycat - besides bad karma - you will FAIL. </p> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:06:00 +0000 comment 136489 at Coffee News is KING <p>Wow, I cannot believe some of the comments on here. Knowledge is king, so I'm here to put things straight. </p> <p>I have been publishing Coffee News for over 20 years. </p> <p>Here are the facts. </p> <p>- I've had over ten copy cats try to publish. All gone, every time, waste of money and time.<br /> - I print more now in 2015 than i have ever printed (People love getting away from 'screens') Plus Coffee News is addictive. The tan paper is soothing and professional... among 16 other reasons.<br /> - Finding content to fill your own publication is HELL. Trust me. Selling, delivery, designing ads is enough work as it is.<br /> - The weekly fees are NOTHING compared to what you can make. Mark up can be as high as 800 percent. Own at least 2 areas for an okay living.<br /> - Always ask to place a rack. That is just human intelligence. I see many copycats that do not ask. Weird. Racks still go missing. Restaurant owners are poor busy souls. Slaves like you cannot imagine. I've been there. It's hell. Buy a Coffee News and free yourself from set hours. longs hours<br /> - The power of 1000 franchisees worldwide is another key. A copycat NEVER works. Never. Unless you truly are a magical bull***ing salesperson that people love. (another key).<br /> - I had one competitor start soon after I started 20 years ago. His was printed 2 colour, ooo fancy. Some people asked me 'ohhh no, are you worried? 2 colour?" nope. The guy that owned the competitor told me (after he quit) That he sat there for a short time and watched people take 10 Coffee News to 1 copy of his. His heart sank. His paper was also a franchise.<br /> - Believe me the franchise fees you pay for Coffee News pay off fast if you are good at what you do.<br /> - Here is an example: I started a juice bar and sold smoothies. They were pure fruit and very full of the best ingredients.. and tasted GREAT. The best smoothies ever. People loved them. We were lucky to sell 100 a day. More like 45 ? We personally know the local Mcdonalds franchisee. When they started selling smoothies, he said they were selling 2000 a day. That's over $8000 a day just on smoothies. It's the power of the franchise. By the way they just spent a million dollars on upgrades to their building. Volume is good. Let me say this... If you started a hamburger joint across the street with the best burgers EVER in the world, you would never ever compete. ever. That said there are still McDonalds owners that fail. Why do you think they want something like $400,000 cash sitting around incase you start blowing it?<br /> - Coffee News is done right. It's big, it's famous, it's powerful. If you ever think a copycat can ever compete it can't. You'll lose more time and money trying. I see it all the time. Over and over again. Coffee News works. It's still here, I'm still here.. printing more than ever because it is still read by nearly everyone. I'm still getting just as many inquiries for ads as ever. Is it easy? BUT, only if you're a natural and not many are. Just like a McDonalds franchise.<br /> Example: One fellow tried Coffee News in Edmonton Alberta. He failed. Another guy comes along and now he is the largest franchisee in the world. As with anything it takes work and you have to be good. </p> <p>Hope this helps. </p> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:41:37 +0000 comment 136488 at The BEST thing to happen to <p>The BEST thing to happen to my MBE store .......Was going indy &amp; throwing UPS out the door...And not being FORCED to become a UPS STORE DROP BOX!!!!!!!!Can you say HELLO FEDEX...Thank you L.M.H....A Former (Thank God) MBE Franchisee!!!!!!!</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:12:45 +0000 comment 136487 at Then you teach outside southern california.. <p>If you try to become an instructor for Jazzercise in southern california you the management DOES look at size and age. Maybe if you live in the midwest where a district mgr is away from the crazy management in so cal you don't have the same ridiculous standards.</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:02:18 +0000 comment 136485 at Jazzercise IS xclusinary and outdated <p>Jazzercise is exclusionary because if you don't fall into their "stepford mentality" then they quickly weed you out. They are looking for followers not leaders. They want franchisees to make Jazzercise money, they could care less about the typical franchisee. A brand that is more inclusive is Zumba. They have a reasonable audition process, are very encouraging to new instructors and Zumba instructors may work anywhere they please...for $35 a class. Do the math, Jazzercise $10 earned per class / $3,000 franchisee fee OR Zumba $35 earned per class with a $200 start up fee. </p> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:58:24 +0000 comment 136484 at Q: How could The UPS Store improve? <p>The UPS Store Zee: "a UPS Store franchise offers a great platform for a person to make a legitimate income and have fun doing it!"</p> <p>Q: What practice would you like your franchisor to change to help you better pay off your capital expenditures?</p> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:05:43 +0000 comment 136483 at Sounds very professional UPS employee <p>This sounds like a very savvy UPS Corporate employee. If I could take advantage of your knowledge and put all those things that you mentioned to good use, then I would then be working for corporate and not at a store. What? Are all your Franchise owners supposed to be as educated and hard working as you mention? Then why even have a franchise? Then I would have elected to be a rocket scientist.</p> Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:46:57 +0000 comment 136482 at So far from the truth <p>Neil &amp; James were partners with Jim and the partnership was dissolved at their request and on good terms. Both are still actively involved in the group.</p> <p>Neil was never CEO but COO, considering the lack of accuracy in your post why would we expect you to get any detail correct?</p> Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:32:06 +0000 comment 136478 at Former franchisee <p>I would not recommend them they charge you extra for everything!!! they start with 25,000 then they add an extra 1,000 dollars for each ATM when you get your first location and is going to be more than 10 months to find one get ready for more charges.<br /> the have locations or routes witch they buy from other people they add a few thousand dollars of income to the stubs to justify their fee. do a search on a route from Forth Worth TX the same description in the details but the person selling put almost 8,000 less income acfn bought it and suddenly the route made more money! the guy was giving 3 spare atms in his description and acfn was selling the atms!!</p> Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:24:41 +0000 comment 136466 at Why don't you stick together <p>Why don't you stick together to create something rather then sticking together to destroy something you small minded pieces of shit - go back to primary school and learn something this time round you losers </p> Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:10:38 +0000 comment 136439 at I thought you said an <p>I thought you said an entertainer - you're a cure for insomnia punk!</p> Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:35:12 +0000 comment 136438 at What about independent stores? <p>I find it crazy that UPS only pays about $1 for each package dropped off when they'll charge the shipper a (minimum) $5 fee for each pick-up. </p> <p>I am considering buying an independent store, but am worried about the future potential. I'm one of those who drop off all the time - I truly presumed you got that $5 they would have charged me, so I never think anything of it. Now I know.... </p> <p>Being one that drops off a lot, I know that there are 4 stores within 2 mile of my home (I live in Summerlin, a suburb of Las Vegas). They're not all UPS Stores, but they all accept UPS packages.</p> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:23:56 +0000 comment 136425 at Signed <p>President, UPS Franchise Division</p> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:11:22 +0000 comment 136424 at I feel your pain... <p>but dumping something onto a "sucker" makes you as bad as UPS. </p> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:09:35 +0000 comment 136423 at Now there are only 40 USA Franchises listed <p>Getter lower and lower here in the US! In addition, for what few are left, none of the websites are working either. Guess this franchise is on the verge of going out. </p> <p>As far as the owners using another website, when you google candy bouquet no other website comes up. </p> <p>Oh well, glad to be done and have it all behind me. </p> <p>A CB survivor. </p> Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:25:58 +0000 comment 136420 at The best oil filtration machine in the market <p>There is one machine that is made by Nika, LLC that actually is a true micro-oil filtration machine and filters down to 1 micron. There is a video on their website that actually shows how good the machine works and they fire up a fryer. It is made from food grade stainless steel and has an big 8 gallon per minute pump with 1/2HP motor which is bigger than any other machine out there and it's built here in the USA. A budy of mine uses it in his restaurant and he told me about it. I know they sell it to restaurants, but they are a franchise so I don't know if they will sell to individuals. They mention on their website that it guarantees to cut coil costs by 50-75% each month. In there business model they sell and rent machines, which is unique and different then the weekly service because with the rental, the restaurant does all the work. It's worth checking it out if anyone wants to buy one </p> Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:31:46 +0000 comment 136419 at Whats the other website?? <p>Whats the other website??</p> Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:25:49 +0000 comment 136407 at More of the same! <p>Why is this no longer an interesting story? Same script, same vendors, same results? </p> Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:55:30 +0000 comment 136405 at Only 46 USA Franchises listed... a question for you <p>Only 46 USA Franchises listed... a question for you.</p> <p>Wow it just goes lower and lower too bad MM dumped it on someone else to take the hit but we all know how Maggie worked. Look at how she abused her franchisees.</p> <p>A question for you...<br /> Why would the new owners run another website other than </p> <p>Just asking and so glad to be free and bringing home a weekly paycheck that I never saw from my own business. Thankfully I was not one of those who went in the hole, lost my retirement, lost my family or my house. Hope most have healed from the abuse of MM and Candy Bouquet and moved on.</p> Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:48:38 +0000 comment 136390 at No real value added! <p>Scott never really understood the requirements of the business while at PMD and legally won a dying business model, with poor dealers and convoluted business fragmentation that needed dramatic changes to be viable strategy so that the company and individual dealers could survive and possibly be profitable in the future. A long shot at best but he tried.</p> <p>While success as a PMD dealer is not a requirement to build a future business new approaches, specific direction and experienced vision based on quantitative analysis to address the bait and switch model in low end bedding and the low end furniture market which probably ran its course in 2009 were needed and required. Doing more of the same and expecting different results is by definition........INSANITY! It was a massive project that at best had major issues with dealers, dealerships and management. While I am sure efforts were made to improve the future the changes made by the new ownership were similar to many of the issues from PMD disaster days are not only still present they are business as usual. In many cases they are the same and no one is asking......Why didn't we improve or make changes?</p> <p>As a Franchisee you have every right to be "disturbed" and should be looking into why the successful franchise's (other than PMD) have definitive unique strategies that work for most every Franchisee and guide success and profitability and PMD has a dissimilar group of Franchisees doing their own thing?? Some work, some don't, all are tied to lack of newness and innovation that needs to be addressed yearly in the unique Furniture and Mattress Industry. If your business is similar to what it was in 2010 your business is in trouble. If your business has multiple focuses what are your strengths?? Do the multiple focuses create costs and weaknesses and lack profitability? </p> <p>Lastly, the Founder of this model (even though he copied it) always believed the individual dealer added value................and unfortunately he was right!</p> Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:29:14 +0000 comment 136384 at Teeth whitening <p>Hi! I own my own mobile teeth whitening company in Atlanta and I would like to email you a few questions if you don't mind</p> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:02:54 +0000 comment 136377 at