audio by year 2006

Blue MauMau's interview at the National Franchise & Business Opportunities Show in Las Vegas, NV January 22, 2006.with John Callahan, President  of Cert-A-Roof Int'l LLC.

An audio interview of Richard Macaluso, Show Director for MFV Expositions, organizers of the 2006 International Franchise Expo in Washington, D.C. The show had over 10,000 attendees looking at a record 325 plus franchise exhibits.

This interview is in mp3 format and can be heard using Windows Media Player, Real Player or most media players.

Mr. Blue MauMau interviews President Steven Cooper and CFO Karen Franklin of SDCooper Company about using retirement funds to fund a franchise without tax penalties. And it's all legal.

This interview is in mp3 audio format.

An interview with Burt Yarkin, CEO of Cartridge World about buying a franchise

The World's first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952 and it is a pivotal moment for the development of the modern business format franchise.  This is one of a three part series on the history of Harman Cafe featuring Kentucky Fried Chicken with Harman Management spokesperson Mr. Jay Alexander, Operations Liaison (pictured next to the statues of Colonel Harland Sanders and Pete Harman). 

The KFC website has this to say about Pete Harman and KFC's beginnings:

After meeting his close friend and skilled businessman, Pete Harman, Colonel Sanders cashed in his $105 Social Security check to begin franchising his dream.

This is an audio podcast of Pete Harman's KFC story. 

This is Part 2 on the beginnings of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The world's first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. This is an interview with Mr. Jay Alexander, Operations Liaison and spokesperson for Kentucky Fried Chicken's first franchisee, Harman Management.

In this interview, Mr. Alexander recalls how the franchise grows and the leeway in the beginning to experiment. Harman's Cafe retains its name but features KFC. It develops out of state to a point where now it has some 325 restaurants.

This interview hosted by Jim Coen with Karl Morningstar the Regional Director of the Allegra Network was broadcast on the Let's Talk Franchising radio show on December 5th, 2005.

The Allegra Network has an interesting conversion model where a franchise candidate purchases an existing print shop and converts it to an Allegra Print & Imaging Center.

Jim Coen interviews Tom Spadea, Franchise Development Director, of Rita' Water Ice, a franchise based in Philadelphia.

The interview was first broadcast on WBIX AM 1060 in the Boston area and worldwide at wbixonline.com on February 18th, 2006.

For more information regarding Rita's Water Ice contact Jim Coen, 877-469-3002 or jim@franchiseperfection.com

KFC's first franchisee, a master franchise group called Harman Management Consultant, speaks on how to keep managers. Restaurant managers and assistant managers that stay on between 17 to 20 years? And the name card shows the uncommonality of this Master Franchise of some 325 units, KFC's largest master franchise. It shows a mission statement that says, "To provide a caring culture of service, success, and ownership." Blue MauMau speaks with Jay Alexander, Operations Liaison. Here's their secret (in mp3 format for your Podcast library).

An interview with the organizer of Detroit's National Franchise & Business Opportunities Show. U.S. Show Manager Ken Muir sat down with Mr. Blue MauMau to discusses how a franchise show can help in the selection process, this year's attendance in Detroit, and Ford's laying off of employees.

Here is a sad tale of a franchise leader gone nuts. To help us discuss the franchise owner leadership lessons in Moby-Dick, Mr. Blue MauMau speaks with Dr. Beth Schulz, professor emirita of English and Art History at the University of Kansas and Shaun Higgins, CEO of Movies for Business.

The ship Pequod, which Ahab captained, was a business within a business, much like running an individual franchise that operates within the business of a franchiser. And at the time Melville wrote Moby-Dick, America was in the height of being the world's leader in whaling for oil, much like the bulk of the world's major franchisers is centered in America today.

Yet, despite all the ships coming back to New England laden with lucrative whale oil to fuel the economy, Captain Ahab's ship met with disastrous results. Here is a discussion of Moby-Dick and its leadership lessons that franchise owners can learn from a scholar and business consultant.

Length - 14:15 min

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