Why I Would Consider a Franchise Now

January 19, 2013

I had always dismissed franchising as a business model until I began to be interested in Dogtopia,  a dog day care franchise founded in the Washington DC area in 2002 by a young woman named Amy who worked in technology and didn’t have enough time to exercise her dog. Leaving corporate life behind,  Amy decided to open […]

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Guns, Parents and Children

December 17, 2012

A friend of mine actually sent an email to his friends list last night about his fears that Congress would pass laws on gun control and our right to bear arms would vanish. Silly man. His gun rights won’t vanish. No one is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. But our children might. […]

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The Future of Content Creation

December 5, 2012

The blog is dead. Trust me on this. I don’t say that lightly;  I’ve been blogging since 2000, moving from an email list I started in the 90’s to Blogger to TypePad to WordPress.com to WordPress.org.  My blog is now directed off my Stealthmode blog domain to SVBTLE, where it lives at francinesblog.com.  I couldn’t decide […]

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How to Start a Vlog: BlogHer12

August 8, 2012

I learned to write quite a long time ago. The high school AP English teacher who taught me, a middle-aged frumpy woman by the name of Dr.Gordon, began by telling us to think about the audience. I am not sure I understood her then, although I have never forgotten what she said. I understand it […]

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6 Secrets of Successful Aging

August 6, 2012

Aging is something I never write about, but it is something that occupies my mind every day. As a blogger and a “transparent” social media influencer, I should have started to write about it long ago, but I couldn’t. You see, I want to be in denial. I don’t want to age, don’t want to […]

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Jamie Oliver at LeWeb2012

August 6, 2012

I am sort of live blogging LeWeb2012. Which means I am switching back and forth among the blog, Google+ and Twitter. This means poorly written posts, for which I apologize in advance. Jamie Oliver is on stage at LeWeb London 2012. I am surprised to see him here at an internet conference, but it turns […]

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“Magic Mike” and the Lure of Entrepreneurship

August 6, 2012

Last weekend, I saw “Magic Mike.” if you care, I loved it. But while everyone else in the estrogen-packed theatre was watching Taylor Channing (Channing Taylor?) strip slowly out of his leathers and take his gun suggestively out of its holster, I was listening to him talk about his dream–to start a custom furniture business. […]

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Why People Who Have Failed Make Good Entrepreneurs

July 31, 2012

This graphic comes to us courtesy of http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/startup-success/

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-31

July 29, 2012

My friend Dsn profiled in the NYT over Arpaio trial @karoli @Mickeleh @shoq http://t.co/mzOEgVSP # There's Fred my dinner partner at Cafe Crudo http://t.co/aIsXQ1ty # News from USHealthCrisis Mich. Gov. Signs Bills Promoting Insurance Coverage of TelehealthReporting Technology’s Impact on Healthcare htt… # News from USHealthCrisis VA Seeks To Integrate Clinical Decision Support Tools With […]

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What is Facebook Really Worth?

July 23, 2012

At Tony Perkins’ Annual Innovation Summit, there was a fascinating discussion between Facebook investors, digital marketing agency heads, and financiers about Facebook the stock versus Facebook the company. How could a company with 900 million users who spend an average of 28 hours a month on the site have such a lackluster stock performance. The […]

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