January 21, 2007 – 10:53 pm
The Small Business Administration reports a first-year failure rate of over 30 percent for independently owned, non-franchised business. The flip side of that is the statement by the U.S. Department of Commerce that annually since 1971, less than 5 percent of franchise outlets have failed. Not to mention that nearly 50 percent of all retail sales in America come from franchising.
January 16, 2007 – 5:10 am
Gavin Bielski (Teacher, Smith’s School of English – Kyobashi) Teaching English in Japan has been an incredible learning experience for me. I studied Japanese in Colleges including Kansai Gaidai so I have some idea what it’s like to work toward not only grammatical understanding, but actual functional mastery of a foreign language. I had the [...]