I was reading an article about franchising on a website called www.insidermedia.com. The article was laughingly logged in the ‘ask an expert’ section and was written by a regional director of RBS, that well known, highly successful and highly respected banking group. On this occasion, though, the article, in my humble opinion, was utter...
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The Devil’s Deal
Brilliant, aggressive, flawed are words which only begin to describe the hero and the villain of Richard Lambert’s first brilliant novel. Weaving his extensive business experience into the story you are led through the exciting world of small company finance in a masterful way.
Calm Down Dave
In 2010 David Cameron lost an election which, according to the author, "he should have won hands down"
In 'Calm Down Dave' Tony Drury provides overwhelming evidence for his reservations about the Cameron led 'liberal lurch' of the Conservative Party.
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My i-Cloud Account
I’m not exactly a technophobe – I can work our DVD player and everything. But I wouldn’t say I’m a geek either. I’m more than happy to use technology but I don’t necessarily have to have the very latest of gadgets and I can’t build back-end systems… Having said that, though, I think I’m...
Willing to help – that’s franchising
Sometimes working with smaller businesses, especially in franchising, can be… different to working in corporate. On occasion it can be slightly less politically correct than perhaps it should be. Like the time I was delivering some training to a group of franchisees some years ago. It was a car valeting franchise and the franchisor,...
Get rich quick
To be entirely honest, I don’t need to work. I get at least three offers every day telling me I’ve won $45 million on a free lottery or I can have £10 million just for letting someone use my bank account to get funds out of Nigeria or someone wants to partner with me...
A franchise for everything
As I lay flat on my back on the wet ground, mud oozing slowly into the neck of my coat I reflected that paying a dog walking franchise sounded like an excellent option, particularly at that moment in time. I also took the opportunity to reflect that wearing worn out trainers on a steep,...
Risk Reversal is important
The problem for so many people when they buy something is that the risk stays with them and isn’t passed on to the person they are buying from. Let me explain what I mean. We recently had plumbing issues – no real plumbing issues with our pipes and everything. The guy fetched up having...
Conference Season – exhausting, but fun
It’s conference season in franchise world! It might actually be Christmas Party time, but a conference could be just a little more tax deductible… I don’t know about that, I’m just surmising. We’ve went to 2 conferences last week and both were very good but for different reasons. Let me explain what happened. The...
Books, covers and judgement
If you ask me who makes the best franchisee, 9 times out of 10, no, 99 times out of 100, I would say it’s the person who wants it most. Also 99 times out of 100, I would say the person who wants it most is the one who has had to scrape the...
Back trouble
I sometimes suffer from back trouble, particularly in the mornings, i.e. I can’t peel it off my bed. Way hay… I’ve waited 10 years to get that joke out and who’d have thought the opportunity would come this week? But it’s strange when franchisees on their initial training course suffer from the same malady;...
What’s in a name?
Well, quite a lot, actually, especially if you are a franchisor… and especially if you are a new franchisor. I was thinking about names and catch phrases as I was on the lovely journey from Birmingham to Edinburgh (A38, M6, A74, A702 – home) yesterday. For some reason I was paying more than usual...
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Goodbye Dave
Tony Drury's first book in the trilogy about the new direction of the Conservative Party, where Tony reveals his very personal reasons for leaving the party after 30 years of dedicated service to it.
In his own unique way Tony is able to capture the mood of many in the party and he has had the courage to put it in print. Along the way he adds many fascinating experiences and anecdotes.
"Goodbye Dave" is a 'must read' for anyone with any political interest.
