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New Twists on Dry Shampoo

Although dry shampoo has been around for ages, it has begun garnering extra attention recently. This powder enables you to skip hair washings, thus saving lots of time and money. These days, most people can never seem to have enough time or money so dry shampoo is enjoying a bit of a renaissance. Along with its increased popularity comes some new twists on this old favorite.

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How To Decorate A Cake – 5 Simple Things You Can Do To Get Started

If you want to learn how to decorate a cake, cupcakes, or cookies, and have never done it before, never fear! Here we will offer five simple ways you can get started without spending too much money on cake decoration supplies.

Even people who don’t regularly eat sweets and treats cannot help but admire the lovely ways professional cake decorators seem to effortlessly “whip up” their beautiful creations!

But, here is a little cake decorating secret for you. You don’t need a pantry full of expensive cake decorating supplies. Usually, when you first learn how to decorate a cake, it’s likely that some of the items you’ll need are already in your kitchen!

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Franchisors Should Beware of Marginally Financially Qualified Franchise Candidates

Before retirement, I was the founder of a franchising company. I like to think of myself as successful, and I often considered myself one of the most knowledgeable franchisors, but that’s not really saying much because there are only about 2000 – 3000 active franchisors in the country at any one time. That’s because franchisors have a failure rate in the first five years; a 5:1 ratio. That is to say all the new startup franchisors that you see in the franchising directories, only one in five will still be expanding their franchise operations after five years.

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How Do You Know When Your Business Model is Finally Ripe to Franchise?

In retirement, I do a little bit of micro-consulting to help startup businesses. One of my areas of expertise happens to be franchising, because before retirement I had franchised the company that I founded. One question I get quite a bit from small business owners that have a great business model, and lots of customers is; “should I franchise my business, how do I know when I’m ready?” Well, there are a lot of things that you must have in order to make a successful franchising company.

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