Details In Business Blog

Mark Cory
FranNet

Are preparing for a new beginning which may include the world of self-employment or entrepreneurship? If so, please let us help.

Web-based Seminars from the Comfort of Your Home or Office… (more…)

Mark Cory
FranNet

“We have it in our power to begin the world again” ~ Thomas Paine

Are preparing for a new beginning which may include the world of self-employment or entrepreneurship? If so, please let us help. Over the next few weeks, FranNet will be presenting several opportunities for you to learn franchising basics, discover unique financing options and even get some face time with several quality franchisors engaged in rapid expansion in Michigan. (more…)

Elizabeth Cusulas
Details In Retail, Inc.

There’s a business killer that we all battle every day – every small business owner, every budding entrepreneur, every freelancer.  It’s more destructive than a down economy, lack of funding, bad unhappy clients and bad marketing combined.

Procrastination kills from within.  It will suck the life out of your company. It will break you. (more…)

Paul Bensman
President and Founder
Details In Retail

As we start a new year and a new decade, we all must look forward and make changes in our lives. These changes will effect our personal lives, our families, and our nation. On a recent business trip to China, I was truly amazed by what that country has accomplished. While China amazed me, the contrast to the condition of our country truly outraged me. China’s growth reflects the growth the US had in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.

We must ask ourselves, what happened to our great country? Why is our middle-class becoming a non-existent class? It’s easy for each political party to point fingers at one another – it’s always easier to blame the other guy. Well, let’s stop this BS and take a deeper look into this problem. (more…)

Elizabeth Cusulas
Details In Retail, Inc.

If you’ve ever thought buying a franchise was something you’d like to consider, you owe it to yourself to talk with an expert like our affiliate, Mark Cory from FranNet.  Mark is one of the professionals who make Details in Retail the one-stop shop for starting, buying or marketing a business in Metro Detroit.  (more…)

Mark Cory
FranNet

Web-based Seminars from the Comfort of Your Home or Office:

“Funding Options for Your Franchise Investment”
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Includes discussion of how to leverage your 401K/IRA funds to capitalize your business.

“Careers in Franchise Ownership”
Wednesday December 2, 2009
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
&
Thursday, December 10, 2009
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Learn franchising basics, including the array of categories and investment levels available (starting at around $50K), and how to go about defining your own personal vision, matching that up with viable choices, and conducting proper due diligence to make sure your selecting the RIGHT fit for YOU! (more…)

Keith Schofield
Restaurant Consultant
Details In Retail
Director of Restaurant Operations
The Townsend Hotel

Webster’s defines Value as:

1. the price or cost of something
2. usefulness or importance
3. a strongly held belief about what is important

No thing has any inherent value beyond that which an individual ascribes to it (i.e. value is relative). The primary objective in the hospitality industry is to discover what hidden value each guest desires and illuminate (deliver) it.

The primary objective in successfully managing (leading) people is to understand the value hierarchy held by each employee and motivating/teaching accordingly. I strongly suspect that in the given economic climate, understanding and exploiting (making productive use of) definition # 3 is more critical than ever in achieving these objectives.

From an employee perspective, financial growth and security (definition #1- price/cost/wage) have become fiction. Value in this sense is dictated strictly by what is necessary to survive. The same can be argued for #2. Maintaining a roof over ones’ head and feeding the children resonates; driving a nicer car is meaningless in light of that reality.

Our effectiveness as leaders, and our ability to nurture and grow both our employees and client base will be largely predicated upon our understanding of these personal motivations (definition #3).  As leaders, we will need to listen more closely, ask more pointed questions, and pay more attention to not only what is said, but what is left unsaid.

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Mark Cory
FranNet

“If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”  John Atkinson

Are you tired of someone else running your life? Learn how to take control by attending one or more of our November events. At FranNet,  we’ve designed educational seminars and a personalized consulting service to help people like you determine if franchising is the right path. (more…)

Elizabeth Cusulas
Details In Retail

You’ve just started a small business with your spouse, a friend or a few family members.  Everyone is enthusiastic and the creative juices are flowing.  You don’t want to reign in all this energy with something as “old fashioned” as an organizational chart, right? 

Wrong. (more…)

Mark Cory
FranNet

Web-based Seminars from the Comfort of Your Home or Office:

“Careers in Franchise Ownership”

Thursday, November 12, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

and

Thursday, November 19, 2009
9:30 AM to 11:00 PM

Learn franchising basics, including the array of categories and investment levels available (starting at around $50K), and how to go about defining your own personal vision, matching that up with viable choices, and conducting proper due diligence to make sure your selecting the RIGHT fit for YOU! (more…)