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Tax Tiger now brings peace of mind to more people through franchises

Lizette Pirtle — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:18 +0000

In 2008 we started working with Tax Tiger, an IRS problem remediation firm. Kathy Hill and her team have helped hundreds of people achieve peace of mind by solving their tax problems with the IRS.

Tax Tiger is an ethic and value based company that prides itself on the personal commitment to each one of its clients. Kathy’s vision is to be able to help even more people and franchising provides her with that avenue. We are honored that Kathy chose our firm to help her in realizing her dream. With a first franchise opening in Austin, TX, this vision is beginning to shape up.

To learn more about Tax Tiger and its franchising opportunty, please go to www.taxtiger.com

Asana Activewear is now a franchise!

Lizette Pirtle — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:47:57 +0000

We are very excited to introduce one of our newest franchisors, Asana Activewear. We started working with Asana late last year and currently they are working with some wonderful prospective franchisees and will soon have their first franchise.

Asana Activewear is a great business model. Gary Schwake and Tim Schar, the founders, are two very bright young men who know how to build a winning business. They not only offer cutting edge apparel geared to the ever increasing number of active people in beautiful stores with very effective branding, but their community approach to marketing is unparalleled in the retail arena.

To learn more about Asana, check them out at www.asanaactivewear.com

Social and Eco-Friendly Franchise: DetailXPerts

Lizette Pirtle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:26:00 +0000

When Emmanuel Williams, founder of DetailXPerts, listened to his son’s inquisitive remark about washing vehicles with steam, he never realized the pioneering path on which he was embarking. In response to his son’s question, Emmanuel used his engineering expertise to create a patent-pending process that resulted in a great product while protecting the environment. Soon after his wife Angela joined him in his quest lending her business savvy to develop the procedures and administration guidelines that made DetailXPerts a successful business model.

Once Emmanuel and Angela proved their concept they decided to add one more of their passions to their winning formula. They have always been called to help others and it only made sense to fulfill this calling through DetailXPerts. After much research they came to the conclusion that the win-win nature of the franchise relationship provided them the best vehicle for their purpose. Thus, in 2008 Emmanuel and Angela created DetailXPerts Franchising LLC with the mission of providing affordable business opportunities and creating employment for unskilled labor while saving the environment. This mission makes DetailXPerts one of very few Social – Eco-Friendly Franchise in the US and International Expansion Experts is proud of coaching Emmanual and Angela as they achieve their objectives.

For more information visit www.detailxperts.net

DetailXPerts — An Eco Auto Spa

NARDELLI'S TRAVEL CHANNEL PERFORMANCE

Lizette Pirtle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:50:45 +0000

Well… here is the Nardelli’s Travel Channel show… Congratulations to our clients!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIoggQf9ig

Integrity Health For Women franchises

Lizette Pirtle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:37:34 +0000

Rocco Boulay, founder of Integrity Health Support for Women, has dedicated his life to fitness and to achieving the impossible, including winning a world championship in bench pressing—five times. Rocco is truly no lightweight when it comes to fitness and health; it is his passion. After leaving the world of competitive weightlifting, Rocco could have taken the easy route as a “trainer to the stars”; instead, he heard another, more personal calling.

The growing epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart conditions among American women prompted Rocco to ask, Why are so many women ignoring their health?” The answers to these questions became the basis of the Integrity vision: a club where even the most out-of-shape woman feels safe, a club where trainers listen to their clients, a club where women are encouraged every step of the way, a club where fitness is achievable.

Rocco understands that a healthy and fit woman will inspire her friends and family to follow suit—part of his vision is, in fact, this trickle-down affect. As he franchises his very successful concept, Rocco’s mission isn’t just to build the most successful chain of health clubs in the country; first and foremost, he wants to solve the health crisis, one woman at a time.

We are proud to have Rocco as our client. Visit Integrity Health Support For Women at http://www.integrityfit.com/index.htm

Right Time Kids Franchising

Lizette Pirtle — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:20:37 +0000

Last August we finished creating the franchise system for Right TIme Kids, a childcare drop in center (http://www.righttimekids.com/). In this short time Right Time Kids has sold two 3-pack franchises. Congratulations!

Right TIme Kids worked hard during the development of their franchise system to collect the names and contact information of those people who were interested in the franchise opportunity. They became proactive in alerting people that they were working to create a franchise system and this diligent approach paid off.

There are many methods to grow a franchise system. Each method produces slightly different results. When a company decides to franchise they need to decide how fast they want to grow. We assist our clients create the strategic plan that will meet their objectives.

Nardelli's Franchising — three wins in a month — congratulations!

Lizette Pirtle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:47:36 +0000

We are proud to announce that our client Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe has been selected for the 9th year in a row by Connecticut Magazine as the best grinders in the state. Nardelli’s also have sold their second franchise AND they gained national recognition by being selected to appear in the Travel Channel’s “Food Paradise.”

Please read the following wonderful article and visit Nardelli’s at www.nardellis.com

Congratulations Tony, Marco, Diana and Mrs. Nardellis — we are very proud of you!

Republican-American 09/18/2008, Page B03

National television discovers an area tradition Travel Channel program will feature Nardelli’s

BY PAUL SINGLEY
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

NAUGATUCK — Producers for a nationally televised food show discovered sandwich paradise in the heart of the borough on Wednesday.

Film crews working for the Travel Channel’s “Food Paradise” program spent all day at Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe on Maple Street pointing cameras and microphones at employees, who served up hearty grinders like the Nardelli’s-style turkey club, Italian combo and baked stuffed pastrami.

The footage will be aired sometime in November on the Travel Channel’s “Sandwich Paradise” segment. Nardelli’s, which has two restaurants in Waterbury and one in Naugatuck, will be featured among nationally renowned grinder shops like Katz’s Delicatessen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and the Los Angeles based Philippe The Original, which claims to have invented the French dipped sandwich.

Producer Kaylyn Thornal said the company’s research about sandwiches kept pointing them toward Nardelli’s. So her crew hopped a flight from Los Angeles to see what all the fuss is about.

“This place has a great history,” she said. “It’s a multigenerational company, and it’s also unique in that all of the food is homemade. Everything is made with so much love and care. That used to be the norm but is now the exception.”

She was not sure how many sandwich shops would be featured on the show, but said Nardelli’s is the only one in Connecticut that will make the cut. Nardelli’s has been voted Connecticut’s No. 1 grinder shop for nine consecutive years by Connecticut Magazine.

The grinder business has been a hit for the Nardelli family since the 1940s. That’s when Joseph, Anthony and Fred Nardelli, the owners of a grocery store on South Main Street in Waterbury, came up with the idea of selling grinders. While in New York one day, they noticed that hoagies were popular in the Big Apple, so they figured Brass City folks would like them too. Soon, lines were out the door for these grinders, which cost about 30 cents apiece at the time.

The Naugatuck Nardelli’s is the oldest of the company’s three shops, which is why producers chose to film here.

While Nardelli’s has been featured in several newspapers and magazines, the airing of the show will mark the first time it will achieve national recognition, said co-owner, Marco Nardelli, who owns the company with his brother, Tony, and sister, Diana Troiano-Nardelli.

“Our family had a vision, and we knew if we worked hard, things would take care of themselves,” Marco Nardelli said.

As he reminisced on his family business history Wednesday afternoon, film crews tiptoed around a line of customers in front o f a rotating glass case filled with cannolis, cheesecakes and Oreo pudding delights.

A customer paid for his lunch and left a dollar tip in a glass jar.
As is customary, manager Gary Matarazzo chimed a bell and the whole room yelled in unison: “Grazie!” It means thank you in Italian.

“We wouldn’t be as successful without our great customers,” Marco Nardelli said.