March 2nd, 2008
(FranchisePick.Com) Related Reading:
Fortune Article Spotlights Butterfly Life Franchise Woes
Butterfly Life Franchise Lawsuit in Forbes
Franchise Pick’s Most Volatile Posts of 2007: A Wrap-Up
Franchise Dreams Becoming Nightmares for Many Fitness Club Owners
Will the REAL Butterfly Life Franchise Please Wave Its Wings?
IS BUTTERFLY LIFE A GREAT FITNESS FRANCHISE?
Read interviews with Butterfly Life franchisees at UnhappyFranchisee.com
In Stuart […]
By Sean Kelly -- 13 comments
March 1st, 2008
(FranchisePick.Com) The Fortune Small Business article on the new changes in franchise disclosure rules (New franchise rule: More disclosure, same high risks) opens with an horror story illustrating why many believe that current regulations regarding the sale of franchise investments do not go far enough to adequately inform and protect franchise buyers. […]
By Sean Kelly -- 6 comments
February 24th, 2008
(FranchisePick.Com) Eric Blair, Chancellor of the Orwellian Institute for Counter Intuitive Thinking (located at 358 Chauncey St., Bensonhurst, NY 00666 Phone: 800-555-1212) has issued a press release warning of impending 123 Fit fitness franchise closures.
Of course you remember that Eric Arthur Blair is the real name of author George Orwell (whose social and governmental predictions […]
By Sean Kelly -- 7 comments
February 15th, 2008
Stuart Goldman of Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro, a leading health club industry trade publication, has written an extensive and well-researched article on the struggling 30-minute fitness franchise chains and some of the powerful names that were instrumental in putting the match to this “hot new franchise” phenomenon.
I plan to look at particular points of […]
By Sean Kelly -- 5 comments
January 18th, 2008
(FranchisePick.Com) The woes of the 30 minute women’s fitness franchises, chronicled and debated in hundreds of franchisee comments on FranchisePick.Com, have reached the mainstream business press, including Forbes.
An article by Lisa LaMotta in the current issue of Forbes features Ricki and Matt Wilson, owners of the ill-fated Atlanta franchise of Butterfly Life. Butterfly Life is a struggling Curves […]
By Sean Kelly -- 11 comments
December 20th, 2007
(FranchisePick.Com) Read interviews with Butterfly Life franchisees at UnhappyFranchisee.com
Failed, failing and still-struggling club owners of the Butterfly Life women’s fitness chain have not been shy in voicing their displeasure with BL President/CEO/Founder Mark Golob and Chairman/Founder Thomas Gergley [pictured, below].
On recent FranchisePick.Com BL posts (see here and here), Golob gets the most blistering comments, […]
By Sean Kelly -- 45 comments
December 18th, 2007
Ex-franchise owners of the Butterfly Life women’s fitness concept reportedly got some good news just in time for the holidays: If and when Butterfly Fitness resells their ex-territory to someone new, BF will split the new franchise fee with the failed owners!
Plus, if the new franchisee wants to buy the failed franchisee’s equipment, Butterfly […]
By Sean Kelly -- 22 comments
December 9th, 2007
(FranchisePick.Com) As we begin to wrap up the first year of blogging at FranchisePick.com, I’ve made a list of the companies and posts that prompted the most comments from FranchisePick.Com readers.
#1 Snappy Auctions Franchise: 600+ Reader Comments
Most-commented Post:
Is Snappy Auctions a Great Franchise Opportunity? April 20th, 2007 - 601 Comments
#2 iSOLD IT Franchise: 590 + […]
By Sean Kelly -- 17 comments
September 25th, 2007
60+ Contours Express Franchise Owners Allege Fraud, Breach of Contract by Franchisor
(FranchisePick.Com) Curves for Women can be credited for setting off the fitness franchise gold rush.
In a little over ten years from the launch of their franchise program in 1995, express fitness franchise Curves for Women grew to over 10,000 locations. The consumer concept was […]
By Sean Kelly -- 51 comments
September 12th, 2007
(FranchisePick.Com) Read interviews with Butterfly Life franchisees at UnhappyFranchisee.com
Finding reliable information on a given franchise opportunity can be a challenge. Sometimes you have to sort through wildly conflicting views and accounts.
For example, we sought out information on a fitness franchise opportunity called Butterfly Life in our post IS BUTTERFLY LIFE A GREAT FITNESS FRANCHISE?
The […]
By Sean Kelly -- 162 comments
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