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Speaking of Design: How to Spend $50,000
If I had $50,000 to spend on the design of a new home—or smallish professional office building, here's how I'd spend it:If I had $50,000 to spend on the design of a new home—or smallish professional office building, here's how I'd spend it:
Media Relations Training Should Focus On Knowing What Motivates Reporters
Automatically distrusting reporters could be a lost media relations opportunity. Welcoming them to your place of business or nonprofit and feeding their curiosity and professional pride by offering to act as a source ("on background," perhaps) could be a lasting step in the right direction. Trust them until they give you a reason not to. If that happens, by all means fight back. Go directly to their editors or producers and tell them you've been wronged. That way, you're going after their only real agenda - themselves. When I run media training seminars for government agencies, nonprofits and companies, the first topic I address is "agenda." There's a misonception out there the media routinely pursue political or personal agendas in the way they cover stories. The real agenda is their professional success.

Success Strategies for Tough Times
There’s just no getting around it. Times are tough. Yet there is opportunity for growth in the midst of these economic hard times. While it might go against intuition, success in difficult times calls for holding true to basic tenets of effective behavior. With the proper attitude and approach, you can indeed thrive in the midst of uncertainty. Here's how...
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Web-Design Firm
Every day, I meet with companies who are looking for a web-design firm, and naturally, I'd like some of them to choose us. But I've also noticed something during these conversations: often, people don't ask the most important questions. A meeting with a web-design company is an interview. You want to make sure their business is legitimate, and you want to get a sense for the personality and culture of the company. Most of all, you need to understand their approach to the unique challenges you're tackling with your project. In 5 minutes, these 5 questions will tell you more than an hour-long presentation...
Minor offenses and your premiums
Discussing how auto insurance premiums are affected by Motor Vehicle Violations.
Answering a Silent Question: When Compliance Adherence is a Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil Proposition (BC Compliance Group Profile)
How Can You Negotiate After the Deal is Done? “Imagine This: a requisitioner commits to a deal with a supplier without your involvement or approval. Now the supplier believes he’s already won the order and you’ve lost the upper hand in any negotiation. This can be one of the toughest situations you will ever face in procurement.” Network Member Question, January 12, 2009

Vista… If We Didn’t Have Darth Vader We’d Invent Him
Bill Gates departed Microsoft leaving Steve Ballmer in charge of a rapidly changing world. Some feel Microsoft will die under the weight of itself. Others are certain that Vista is just a symptom of the worst yet to come. But is it really that bad or is it a case of the fact that we really don't like change? After all the Mac OS has its issues as well.
Film Production: Financing and Investment Issues
Film financing is one of the most difficult and least understood challenges facing a producer and it is fraught with perils for the unwary. Many independent film producers find themselves caught in the “Producer’s Paradox” namely: “You can’t sign talent and develop your screenplay without financing, but you can’t obtain financing without talent and a polished script.” Given that most film producers do not want to use their personal assets to fund their films, the most important issue for many producers is how to finance their film project with other people’s money.

Conducting a faulty investigation can lead to an employee’s success in an unfair dismissal claim
The AIRC ordered Melbourne’s St Vincent Hospital to reinstate an employee and ordered compensation for lost earnings after it found that a pathology courier employee’s (Ms Nicolson) dismissal was unfair.

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Investigating Franchise Offerings
Before investing in any franchise system, be sure to get a copy of the franchiser's disclosure document. Sometimes this document is called a Franchise Offering Circular. Under the FTC's Franchise Rule, you must receive the document at least 10 business days before you are asked to sign any contract or pay any money to the franchiser. You should read the entire disclosure document; make sure you understand all of the provisions. The following outline will help you to understand key provisions of typical disclosure document as well as ask questions about the disclosures. Get a clarification or answer to your concerns before you invest.
FRANCHISE EARNINGS CLAIMS – PART II
Franchise Earnings Information (Part 2) Part 1 of this article discussed how current Ontario and Alberta law makes it difficult to provide franchise prospects with information about how much they can expect to make in any given franchise. In Part 2 of this article, Peter Macrae Dillon discusses the advantages and disadvantages of including earnings information in a franchise disclosure document and how to prepare earnings information for inclusion in a disclosure document. Should we provide earnings information in our disclosure document?
16 Things You Should Know about Ontarios Franchise Legislation
Ontario, Canada's most populous province and economic engine, introduced franchise legislation in 2000. A surprising number of franchise systems are unaware of what they need to do to comply. This article examines what a franchise is, including possible exemptions available. It then discusses how to properly prepare a franchise disclosure document, and how to provide the document to franchise prospects in a way that complies with the law. The ability to rescind for improper disclosure, and to sue for misrepresentation, is also discussed. Finally, the requirement that parties to a franchise agreement deal with each other fairly, in good faith, and in a commercially reasonable way, is discussed. Great read for franchisees and franchisors alike! peter macrae dillon franchise lawyer ontario attorney canada
Government Regulation of Franchises
In the United States, all franchisors must abide by the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Franchise Rule, which requires franchisors to prepare a disclosure document called the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC ) / Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and give a copy of that document to prospective franchisees prior to their purchase of a franchise.
NDAs Reduce Business Development Risk
Business Development is an equally exciting and risky endeavor. Protect your organization by executing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) prior to establishing relationships with unfamiliar vendors, potential partners, prospects, or investors. Use Demand Metric’s downloadable Non-Disclosure Agreement template as a starting point when drafting your various NDA documents.
Special Issues for a Subfranchisor
If you want the right to sell franchises on behalf of a franchisor and, perhaps, also operate your own franchises, you may want to become a subfranchisor. A subfranchisor is sometimes called a "master franchisee," particularly in international deals. A subfranchisor steps into the shoes of the franchisor and acts as the franchisor in a given area (for example, state or county). A subfranchisor sells its own franchises and directly enters into a franchise agreement with a franchisee. The franchisor is not a party to the franchise agreement. A subfranchisor is subject to the FTC Franchise Rule and state franchise registration and disclosure laws to the same extent as a franchisor. Therefore, a subfranchisor is obligated to have its own Franchise Disclosure Document.

State Franchise Disclosure and Registration Laws
The articles explains state franchise registration and disclosure laws and provides a 50-state anaylsis of each state as to whether the state has franchise disclosure and registration law and/or business opportunity law and a franchisor's obligation to register under such laws, the documents required to be filed, filing fees, review period and other filing information.

E-Mailing the Franchise Disclosure Document to Prospective Franchisees
Under the FTC Franchise Rule,a franchisor can deliver the Franchise Disclosure Document (“FDD”) electronically by e-mailing the FDD in a pdf form or mailing a FDD copied on to a CD-ROM to a prospective franchisee. The first personal meeting requirement has been eliminated. The prospective franchisee must have the FDD and Exhibits at least 14 calendar days before the franchisee signs any agreement with the franchisor or gives the franchisor any money. Electronic delivery of the FDD disclosure will save the franchisor substantial time and money as the cost of copying and mailing a Franchise Disclosure Document and Exhibits, let alone personnel cost, really adds up. The FTC estimates that the cost to copy and mail a disclosure document is about $35.00 each. The states having franchise registr
How To Investigate Franchise Offerings
Before investing in any franchise system, be sure to get a copy of the franchiser's disclosure document. Sometimes this document is called a Franchise Offering Circular. Under the FTC's Franchise Rule, you must receive the document at least 10 business days before you are asked to sign any contract or pay any money to the franchiser. You should read the entire disclosure document; make sure you understand all of the provisions. The following outline will help you to understand key provisions of typical disclosure document as well as ask questions about the disclosures. Get a clarification or answer to your concerns before you invest.
Selling A Business Is Madness ... March Madness That Is
It’s March … the nation turns its attention to March Madness and the tournament of tournaments (full disclosure, die hard Terps fan and will watch the tournament without them this year; just wait til next year). So it’s in the spirit of the game that we write this month’s article … Game On!

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