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How To Have Lasting Relationship With Clients
Clients are the most precious assets for a business. Without clients, there can be no business. With poor quality of clients, the business will be poor and if you manage to get very good clients and retain their loyalty, your business will only go up and up. This all sounds very exciting. But it is not easy to get very good clients and all the more difficult to retain them. After all, whatever you do, your competition is trying the same and may use better techniques to get business. Are there any innovative approaches to client relationships?We are talking about direct sales in this discussion and not about selling merchandise to large consumer base. For example if you are a contractor maintaining air conditioners in clients work places. Or a direct seller of computer hardware to business buyers, and all such businesses where your sales to individual clients are large, and you are in direct contact with clients.The first need is of course client satisfaction. I

l if that is the method of the Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a franchising division and all the rules on the books need to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling and more minutia.

You see law enforcement experience means nothing when you abuse the power of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your job or to help competitors in the market place which are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do business at the speed of thought. Promoting weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as part of law enforcement actions using methods of abuses of power is not what I consider law enforcement experience, it would better described as experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FT

Telecom Bill Management Audits
A careful management of your telecom bills and their audits in respect of the use of the voice, data and wireless devices is essential to check the loss of a big chunk of your revenue. Proper management can help you track your assets and invoices and reduce your costs, which would otherwise add reduce your overall profits. For this you need to streamline your audit management and audit your telephone bills to find overcharges, wrong charges, and oversight errors that may total up to heavy costs on your company. You can achieve this by either hiring the services of a Telecom Audit and Bill Management company, or just by going in for software designed specifically to audit and manage your telecom expenses.In case you opt for software to perform this job for you, you will have to go in for the one that is based upon the latest Telecom Bill Auditing Management techniques. You will also need to get your staff trained in the use of such software, as they can have very compl

I have been doing a lot of research on regulatory bodies, including the FTC. Recently in the FTC’s report on franchising 432-pages I noticed a some discrepancies, which were contrary to my personal knowledge and observation of the agency; specifically the franchising division.

If the FTC is watching American Business, then who is watching the FTC? Some could say private sector attorneys and you can always fight the FTC, but even giants like Microsoft end up settling out of court, due to the cost of litigation these days. The FTC can take away a million or even a billion dollars of hard earned brand name value by grandstanding in the mass media and filing a case. What a complete sham? It costs too much to prove you are not guilty of violating something in the myriad of over regulation? Wow, is this the best the United States of America, the greatest nation in the world can do? Is this the best that the Federal Trade Commission, the darling of the Justice Department can do? Are you kidding me, that is it? That’s all you got? You could not be first picked on a third grade recess basketball team. Filing bogus cases and grandstanding to prove that you are doing your job and get next years budget? Why?

So you can employ more people in the Beltway? The unemployment rates there are so low you cannot even get a legal citizen to come mow your lawn in Woodbridge, VA or Bethesda, MD. They even had to import the DC Sniper from the other Washington, Washington State because all the locals are too busy working to go around shooting people, well unless you are a US Marshall with road rage you open fire on a US Navy Sailor in the middle of traffic. Does the government see what is happening here? That their law enforcement officers cannot be trusted? The FBI sting just caught four congressmen. Another sting at the Arizona Border caught local police and border patrol taking bribes to look the other way during illegal drug shipments. The problems are not in the private sector, but since the FTC likes to point fingers, it is time we point back.

Can the Federal Trade Commission admit their faults so we can all move forward for the betterment of country? For the betterment of franchising, the best business model ever created? The Federal Trade Commission’s law enforcement experience, if you really wish to call it that in this report, is an embarrassment to the other law enforcement agencies. Does the Federal Trade Commission have any honest law enforcement experience? If so one has to wonder.

Obviously there are some pretty unethical, unstable and questionable people working in many agencies in DC. Like the FBI agent who lied to get a conviction at the Martha Stewart trial. The FBI agent who gave information to China through a sex slave, extra marital affair, girlfriend spy. How about those 13 LAPD cops who were robbing banks because they had to feed their six kids? Remember recently the hiring of the foreigner to the NJ state homeland security committee in trade for gay sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug shipment, working with a trucking company?

How about the most recent telling quote of Elliot Spitzer saying he is going to drive a stake through the heart of businessman he has a personal vendetta against. (Source WSJ). We know that no agency is perfect, as they are made of imperfect people, but why must the Federal Trade Commission follow suit, in such unethical practice?

We need to clean up government and eliminate the fraud, there is no fraud in franchising, The Federal Trade Commission needs to look in the mirror. I cannot allow the phrase “law enforcement experience” to be used in that report, without comment, that is a clear misrepresentation of an agency which has already admitted that their purpose is to watch trends in industries and if needed file court cases to collect fees. Well if that is the method of the Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a franchising division and all the rules on the books need to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling and more minutia.

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC

Custom Lanyards – Close a Security Gap in Your Business
With the current climate of fear, and the increased levels of security worldwide, more and more businesses are securing their premises with the aid of ID card technology. While businesses may focus on the ID card itself, many are coming to recognize that a custom lanyard adds another layer of security, at a relatively low cost.For premises where entry is security controlled, the wearing of a custom lanyard by staff greatly aids the quick identification of potential security problems. For visitors, a special custom “Visitor” lanyard can identify those who are allowed temporary access.For large organizations, the absence of a custom lanyard will quickly make unauthorized “guests” recognizable – a great deal of workplace crime takes place by opportunists, coming off the street. If there are no means to differentiate workers with access to the building from unauthorised potential criminals, then these unwanted guests

you kidding me, that is it? That’s all you got? You could not be first picked on a third grade recess basketball team. Filing bogus cases and grandstanding to prove that you are doing your job and get next years budget? Why?

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FT

Envelopes
The envelope is an essential part of home and business communication. It is basically a receptacle for transporting letters, booklets, catalogs, coins, mailers, and invitations, CDs, photos, artwork, magazines and much more.Envelopes can be divided into two major categories, for business and for personal use. They are found in abundant and attractive shapes, sizes, colors, materials and designs. Shapes are generally square and rectangle, and sometimes triangular. Sizes can range from 3 inches to 36 inches for special items. Sizes are also commonly known by a terminology, such as A2, which indicates 4 3/8 x 5 3/4 sized envelope. Similarly there are #10, A6, 2PAY and other names by which envelopes are categorized.Colors exist from pale, transparent types to bright, metallic. The texture could be plain or with patterns. Generally envelopes are made from paper. But some are foil, corrugated sheets, plastic, paperboard and bubbled material. Again they could be line

sector, but since the FTC likes to point fingers, it is time we point back.

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FT

Audit Advice That You Need
Oh no! You need audit advice. You just received in the mail a notification that you are going to be audited by the IRS. What now? How do you respond to this and should you be having a heart attack now? While many people lose it as soon as they realize that the IRS is going to be asking for their records and proof, the fact of the matter is that the best audit advice is to stay calm and gather the information that you need carefully, accurately and without worry.Before you put it to the side and decide to deal with it later, (it won’t go away by the way) take the time to respond to it. Give the IRS a call and find out what is going on and when they want to come and see your paperwork. This simple phone call can help you to find the right information before you react the wrong way. Remember, it’s not the lady on the other side of the phone’s fault that this is happening to you either. So, be nice, play fair and be honest.Do you need some extra time to ge

curity committee in trade for gay sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug shipment, working with a trucking company?

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FT

Questionable Collection Ethics Back In The News!
There's been a lot of bad press lately pertaining to the ethics of debt collectors. As the owner of a collection agency, I'd like to take this opportunity to respond to such allegations. As a general rule, businesses contract with collection agencies in an effort to resolve recovery issues due to extended lines of credit that have failed to be honored.When not pursued diligently, past due accounts are among the leading contributors to serious cash flow issues that prevent businesses from paying their own bills, or forcing them to go out of business altogether. Businesses depend on earned revenue to thrive, it's essential to the life of the business.As a business owner, I understand the urgency of recovering past due revenue. As a collector, it is imperative that we abide by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) standards. The role of a collector is to fulfill our obligation to the creditor and assist them in recovering earned revenue.It is my op

We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC in our case has joined the ranks of those other agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if people in these agencies have that much time on their hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) and attack growing franchising companies like ours; www.CarWashGuys.com . Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.

I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.

“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free contract. Attacking such individuals and companies for reasons other than that which the law provides is abuse of power and therefore criminal activity. This destroys the integrity of such an agency and it slaps in the face of the reason for forming the Federal Trade Commission in the first place. It additionally undermines the entire mission of the Justice Department, which already has a black eye in the minds of the people over the prevention of 9-11 and the patriot act, which followed. If an agency cannot fulfill it’s promise it need not bother to exist, for it is a plague on civilization and a complete waste of tax payers money.

My recommendation is that the words and phrase “law enforcement experience” be stricken from the franchise report and does not re-appear until which time the Federal Trade Commission has admitted it’s failures, apologized and learns what law enforcement experience is.

The Federal Trade Commission has made some huge errors. Should we in fact allow them to continue to referee the franchising industry, which is so important to jobs and economic vitality in this country. Can we trust an agency, which misrepresents their experience, in this case, “law enforcement experience” to moderate and regulate franchising? It appears that in this regard the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Division’s Franchise Rule Group may in fact be unfit to lead. The truth must be heard, there is a legal and moral obligation. If we are going to continue to regulate franchising, we must down size the regs to fit the level of oversight needed, to allow franchising to flourish. Think about it. A patriot and a gentleman always and forever,

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