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- From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: Amway vs Primerica vs Whatever vs Widgets Inc
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 22:26:42 GMT
- Organization: Marsnet
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- Message-ID: <18j9b2INNhvj@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Sep8.171006.10692@waikato.ac.nz> <18hgihINN4da@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Sep8.165927.16491@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep8.165927.16491@hubcap.clemson.edu> cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson) writes:
- >Do you believe that it is possible for an individual to buy into a
- >franchise (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, McDonalds etc...) and still be an
- >entrepreneur? If so why is being part of an MLM any different?
-
- I believe tradtional francises since the are not allowed to sub franicise,
- i.e. the parent company can maintain control more directly (in that there is
- some univeraslity of policies), while allowing the indivual francise more
- freedom. MLM has to do this with dogma also why should the parent company
- get any benefit if there are subfrancises!
-