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The Entrepreneur's Reading List, Member Book Reviews

Buying a Franchise - Is it Right for Me?

Lonnie Helgerson | Dec 12
Author: Lonnie Helgerson CFE
Save yourself time, effort, and money by finding out if franchising is for you!
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Dunk'd, A True Story of How Big Money is Corrupting the Franchising Industry

Don Sniegowski | Jun 11
Author: Irwin Barkan
BOOK REVIEW: DUNK'D — Franchising is everywhere. There are franchised restaurants, grocery stores, parcel deliveries, online search optimization services, premium out houses, even poop scoop services for pooches.
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The Buyout of America, How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy

Irwin Barkan | Mar 30
Author: Josh Kosman
Perhaps if each member of Congress read “Buyout of America” they would understand that unsustainable debt does the same thing to companies that it did to our economy in 2008: eviscer
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Hire the American Dream

Don Sniegowski | Jul 23
Author: Dave Melton, Tim McIntyre
In an industry with easily over a hundred percent turnover, quick service restaurants wish for the day that they can have a seasoned team, even if for one day.
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The Social Media Marketing Book

Dave Tanaka | May 30
Author: Dan Zarrella
Advertising is changing. Businesses used to typically buy an ad in a newspaper or on TV, but the results are changing dramatically.
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Taco Titan: The Glen Bell Story

Pualani Kaai | May 2
Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
One of America’s most successful entrepreneurs, who worked with others who also became business successes, Glen William Bell, Jr. was an early figure in chain restaurants and franchising.
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A Client's Guide to Mediation and Arbitration

Charles Chejfec | Mar 16
Author: Peter Silverman
One of my law partners recommended Silverman’s Client’s Guide to Mediation and Arbitration to me to send to a client
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Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry

Don Sniegowski | Dec 10
Author: Stanley Turkel
Leave it to hotel consultant and prolific writer Stan Turkel to explore the careers of sixteen of the most outstanding leaders and innovators in the hotel industry. Such books are rare.
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Franchise Success: The New Formula

paulsegreto | Nov 13
Author: Lizette Pirtle
Recently, as I was preparing for the Frantelligence Webinar series with Franchise Business Review, Lizette Pirtle contacted me to discuss franchise client support, and being able to provide information to her franchise clients.
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From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Drive the Growth and Profits of Your Company

Don Sniegowski | Oct 28
Author: Scott A. Shane
I give this book the highest ranking of five stars. Why? Because this book is like no other in that it explains the metrics and drivers of the franchising model, an approach that is sorely needed in the franchise world.
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