Be Your Own Boss identifies the stages of owning and maintaining your own business or franchise and pinpoints major concerns at each phase. Real-life scenarios � from a travel agency to a printing business to a sports store � provide practical applications for the techniques and advice highlighted. Sample letters and agreements, checklists and worksheets, and web resources and government contacts make this a complete resource guide..
Norman Friendis Chief Executive Officer of Noro Licensing Strategies, Inc., a company that owns the Canadian master license right for Amato Gelato Cafe franchise. He is widely recognized as an expert on marketing, sale and expansion strategies. He lives in Vancouver.
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Douglas Gray, L.L.B., is a lawyer, consultant, and financial columnist and Canada's most published business author, with 15 bestselling business and personal finance books. He retired from his law practice at the age of 50 to concentrate on his educational interests of writing and public speaking. .
He is an internationally recognized expert on financial and retirement planning and has given seminars to over 250,000 people nationally and internationally in his various areas of expertise. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and the Canadian Bar Association..
Mr. Gray is frequently interviewed as an authority on financial matters by publications such as the Financial Post, Profit, and the Globe and Mail. He is a regular guest expert on personal finance issues on CBC-TV Newsworld. In addition, he is a regular columnist for Profit, Computer Paper, Opportunities Canada, Canadian Moneysaver, Today's Seniors, and Canada News. He is a periodic contributor to the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Good Times..
He is the president of the Canadian Retirement Planning Institute Inc. This organization offers objective educational programs nationally on a wide range of issues related to personal finance, tax, estate planning, and retirement planning that are of interest to those planning for, or in retirement, and Snowbirds..
Mr. Gray lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. .
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