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Store Fixture Installation

Store fixture installation is the process of setting up infrastructure in a retail or whole sale store. Stores install numerous fixtures to minimize disruptions in business operations, maximize the daily sale rate, and as a means to attract maximum customers. An important factor of any business process is the way in which the products are displayed.


A Look at Wireless Security Cameras

If you need to partially conceal your cameras from view, wireless security cameras are the way to go. Locations such as banks use a combination of wireless and wired, visible and hidden cameras to intimidate potential robbers, but continue photographing them even if they disable the wired cameras.


Franchise Rule Staff Report RF511003-1 at the FTC completely flawed

Having been in the franchising industry for some time now, I always find it fascinating when a regulator arbitrarily decides that we need more laws. As if we do not have enough laws impeding commerce there is always some regulator somewhere who says we need more rules.


Bill Gates, Virtual Reality, and Six Flags

Does bill Gates know something we do not know about Six Flags amusement parks? No probably not, but anyone as smart as he, certainly understands the future of Virtual Reality. Look at the new X-Box 360-degree system? Obviously Microsoft gets it and their research teams may have entered the Virtual Reality Realm a little late, but they certainly understand gaming.


China Business Negotiation - Understanding the Culture

Business negotiation in China can be very a frustrating exercise for western business executives. The Chinese business culture and deliberate style of negotiation is vastly different from the more direct western approach. It is easy to lose one's perspective and patience and ultimately fail in reaching the desired agreement.


Conflicts of Interest at the FTC

The Federal Trade Commission has set forth an agenda to revamp the Franchise Rule. Actually not revamp and get rid of the unnecessary over regulation and over disclosure, but to re-define it and pile on more minutia.


Franchise Rule Making and Political Climate

Last Summer the Federal Trade Commission put forth a report for the Franchise Industry; 432 pages of study. This report asks Franchise Industry participants to comment on only certain aspects of franchising which were addressed between 1995 to 1999. It is good to see that the FTC is finally doing something after 10-years of sitting on their rear ends with a stick up their butts, however one has to ask what about the issues between 1999 and 2005.



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