Boroian Free at Last

never hearing from you gain. Go in peace, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out--

Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com,  has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School

That is the beauty of blogging, you can blog, AND make valuable contributions to society, blogging is easy. For example, I was on a restaurant site last week, and although I had never eaten at a particuar restaurant, I was able to get a very good idea of what I was in for by reading the blogs of 10 - 15 diners who had already eaten there, The picture they painted of the place accurately captured my experience to a tee, and it only took me about 10 minutes to obtain that invaluable insight. Don't underestimate blogs as a powerful information medium that shapes the way American consumers and business people make decisions.

Hey What comes around goes around. Where there is smoke there is fire. Do unto to others as you would have done unto you. C'mon you really think the problem here is what is being written about this guy? Is anyone shocked that he is in trouble for defrauding people again?

You have to be careful with the word slander. Slander is defined legally as a spoken untrurh, one that harms a persons reputation or standing in the community. You can sue for slander. You cannot however, sue when someone speaks the truth. You bring up another interesting point about successful people in this industry, how they all have admirers and haters, but if do a search on this forum about other franchising heavyweights, why don't you come up with the same amount of flak that you do with Francore's boss? Another thing puzzles me about this as well, and I am not the first to bring it up, but reputation in business and one's professional legacy are built on strong relationships and years and years of doing business with people. True, some become friends, some become enemies, but there should be, as you allude to, a balance. Don Boroian is supposedly an icon in this industry, what business icon would not have some sort of defense for all of this? Where are Boroian's allies? where are his friends, where are all of those successful clients who had positive experiences with him?This is a very popular forum in this industry, and as we see from some of the tracking information in earleir posts, a popular site on the web in general.Certainly there should be a large group of people who have worked with Don over the years who could stand up for him. I don't get that.

What criteria are you using to determine Boroian's success? We have found through this forum that he has lied about his professional experience, he personally has no wealth, huge tax debts, Francorp has no money as a company and certainly Bond's and other franchise resources would reflect the true number of successful clients Francorp has churned out. The other thing you realize as you read this forum is that Don is just not a relevant figure in Franchising. There are a lot of very sharp, talented, franchising people that you become exposed to once you scratch the surface of this web property, and Boroian ain't one of them.

It really is just too easy, that is why you really have to watch what you say and do to people. You want to abuse employees, skip payroll and fleece unsuspecting small business owners ? That is fine, but don't cry when your business suffers because people write things about you. If your mortgage, car payment and financial well being are dependent on you keeping you businees afloat, and a site like this is going to affect that business,and more importantly, affect your employees, then you should worry about your reputation and that of your firm. It really is just too easy to take 5 minutes and write something about someone, especially if it's true. The truth hurts.

Guest, You read too much into this. Offering opinion on a website is not much of a commitment. It takes about two minutes to offer an opinion, tell a quick story, or wax eloquent on a subject that you are well versed in. That is one of the reasons that blogging is so popular. A tremendous amount of information, insight and fact can show up on a message board. Is there a lot of crap also? You better believe it, but that is the beauty of this media, information is digested and disseminated in such quick palatable bites that you can get in and get out with the information you need and move on to other things. Case in point - Among other things, you offer opinion in your blog that succsessful people throughout history have a long list of admirers and haters. A clear, concise statement that if offered alone, outside of the context of this blog about Boroian, could give someone an opinion outside of franchising that Boroian has as many admirers as he has detractors. Fair ? But within this community, the franchising community, and in the context of this blog specifically, your post titled pathetic gives readers specific insight into how those two groups are split. The long list of haters is well represented here, and the admirers? Not so much. It doesn't take long to read 3-4 of these threads to realize that there are no admirers. There are no companies blogging on Blue mau mau that have worked with Francorp that have stood up and wrote about their positive experiences with Francorp. Nobody has posted how great Don was to work with. There are people who have worked right along side Don who have given very negative opinion about Don, his ethics, his behavior etc, and some of those people have posted their names at the bottom of the page. You see, it's not what is written about Don that tells the story, it's what is not written about Don that tells the truth...There are consequences to actions in life for everyone. It used to be you say and do anything you wanted and you wouldn't end up on To-catch-a-world's-wildest-wackiest-gone-wild videos or become infamous on a blog site. It has way less to do with hatred than it does with convenience. Typing three minutes of text, or pointing a camera at someone acting the fool is just too easy. Blogging gives you enough information to make the hard judgement calls for yourself in very short order. You can read enough information about Francorp and Boroian on this site in 20 minutes to help you form opinion, make a business decision, or even to cancel a plane ticket to a client meeting. You just need some simple math skills,like.... What is 3+4

Again, welcome to BlueMauMau Mr. Boroian.

I don't think that you are going to find the news about the latest jury that Boroian faces anywhere else but here on Blue Mau Mau. I think that there has been some other good posts about how popular this forum really is. Unbelievable that Boroian and Francorp are facing another jury in the South Beach case.. Obscurity certainly has been popular recently, especially for Boroian.

Awww is it hard to swallow Boroian...... that world is finding out all about you and your awful crooked history. Thank you Janet (we love you) - Thank you Blue Mau Mau (this site is excellent just the way it is) These sub human disgraceful people, have been getting away with cheating Franchisees for way too long. Go Blue Mau Mau You educate and you inform like no one else.

It is certainy depressing if you are Don Boroian. You are emoting too much, if you want to give people the opinion that this is not a hot thread or that gas wasn't just dumped on the smoldering Boroian fire, you have to be more subtle.

A guest writes, "this obscure, and frankly depressing, website"

Michael Webster had asked me to write an article on our traffic rankings several days back. I'm reluctant. But given this posting, I think I will at least write a comment. The Alexa.com graph below compares our traffic and rank to other news sites like Franchise.org, Franchise Times and Franchise-Update. The lower the number the higher the rank. For example, Yahoo! is ranked #1 of all sites. Google #2. Yesterday, Blue MauMau was ranked #74,915 of all sites. That's followed by the IFA's franchise.org site.

At any rate if readers are curious in exploring this geeky online publishing stuff, they can see more details on Alexa.com. It ranks this site as one of the highest and most visited franchise related sites.

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I also find Trafficestimate.com useful in comparing visitors to competing sites for the past 30 days. Here's what it says.

Bluemaumau.org (Daily Zee News)	133,700
Franchise.org (IFA's site)	103,400
Franchise Times	40,700
Franchise-Update (Multi-unit News)	6,200

The sites success has been from organic, word-of-mouth efforts.

""If I were looking for relevant information on franchising this is probably the last place I would look on the planet." - Guest Right. This is not a site for franchising - i.e. franchisors developing / selling franchise chains. It is a site for franchise owners and franchise unit investors. Judging from your comment, what franchisees read really rattles you. By the way, exactly what would you recommend for relevant franchising (franchisor) information? The Francorp site?

What's the matter, Guest, is little Mrs. Sparks eating your lunch?

Janet says it straight and out loud. She's tenacious, she has guts, she knows where the skeletons are, and she's loyal to the truth. On the other hand, it appears that transparency is not 'your' long suit.

To give you the ultimate pass would be to say that Columbo had his own investigative style, but that would be way too much in your favor so I won’t take that road.

Nick Bibby is an international franchise consultant and a program developer dedicated to excellence in entrepreneurship. 

I was beginning to wonder when Boroian was actually going to post on here. Welcome Don!! Guest status no less, but here all the same.

Holy ageism Batman. Boroian is a leader in the industry and the information was posted within days of the announcement of Boroian's final release from the federal penal system. Seems pretty substabtive and current to me.

He is something else, Boroian. Be wary though, Francorp still uses the same slick game. Bolierplate documents, and the promise of success, all spell the same thing, an empty wallet and a trunk full of documents. Remember, if Borian and crew are selling franchises, those clients will end up in Bond's franchising guide. So don't ask for Francorp's reference list, reference Francorp's client list and do your homework-Ask the hard questions of the Francorp den of thieves. - How many full development projects did Francorp complete last year - Can you provide me a list of clients from last year that sold more than 5 franchises in their first year so I can cross reference that against Bond's franchising guide. An finally -Money begets money. If you are the world's largest franchising consulting firm, why are you still in the world's crappiest office?

"I am sure some selective vendors have not been paid to ensure the firm does not miss a payroll, which would almost guarantee an exodus of employees." Take it from one of us ex-employee types....over the years, missing payrolls at Francorp -- while commonplace -- hasn't necessarily equated to mass exodus. Strange, but true. I think some call it "Stockholm Syndrome."

How many lives has this disgusting creep ruined along the way?