Category Archives: Investor or school owner?

Power of the Franchise Revealed!

This week I had two students start who transferred from other Smith’s School (Otsu and Kotoen). This really brought home the meaning and the power of the franchise to me and it is something anyone thinking about starting an English school in Japan should consider carefully.
If I were out there on my own, I [...]

PROMOTIONAL GEAR

With the change of season, there has been quite a lot written recently about the comfort of various items of Smith’s School of English promotional clothing. What I want to stress is just how important it is to wear these items, and not just when handing out flyers.
Last Friday I went into my favourite bakery [...]

What a Great Staff We Have at Smith’s School of English!

This week I went to Smith’s School of English’s Kyobashi School to drop off my business records for the preparation of my Japanese tax return.  I had closed down for two hours so as to have time to go there for a 3:30 meeting and return in time for my 5:00 p.m.  lesson.  Well, since I [...]

Why we’re still in Japan after 8 years

I wrote most of this as a comment to a story posted by Derek (from スミス英会話塚口), but I think I should share it with all of you too!
We are very excited to be having a baby in Japan. Japan is a place I can feel safe every day, at any time of day or [...]

Franchisee or Real Estate Investor?

With a wonderful wife and two great kids (so far) to provide for I realized that in the future this wouldn’t be enough to pay for school fees, medical and everything else. So in January 2004 I sat down with Smith’s School of English and we put into effect a plan. In September 2004 I opened my school in Okamoto, Kobe. This was also the start of my property investing. With an English school??? Let’s go back a few years.

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