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Posts made in May, 2012
I posted last week that the Great Clips Inc. (GCI) Real Estate & Development team was looking forward to attending ICSC RECon because of the great opportunity to meet so many people—and we weren’t disappointed! Between all seven GCI Real Estate Managers, Paul Guidera (our Director of Real Estate) and me, we probably had over 300 meetings with various landlords, developers and brokers. And if you add up all the people we met with at the convention, it would easily top 500.
Here are some of my takeaways from the...
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Greetings from ICSC RECon! Not surprisingly, Monday was a busy day that started with a meet-and-greet at our booth. About 40 Exclusive Agents stopped by to chat with the Real Estate & Development team (and, no doubt, pick up some free samples from the neighboring Jimmy John’s booth!).
Great Clips CEO Rhoda Olsen was on hand to share some success stories and to help me acknowledge our Exclusive Agent of the Year, Dustin Whitehead from Lockard Realty in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Dustin has been a great partner, helping Great...
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The Great Clips Real Estate & Development Team is looking forward to ICSC RECon in Las Vegas this month (May 21–23). It’s the largest industry convention for retail shopping centers and real estate professionals from all around the world.
This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people who can help us find great locations for our walk-in haircare salons. There are several ways we learn about potential locations: commercial real estate brokers, commercial landlords, franchisees who seek out potential sites,...
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Over the past few months, I’ve read a lot of good articles—primarily from magazines and newspapers that I read online—about franchising, entrepreneurship and general business topics. I either bookmark them or send the link to someone in our department so we can talk about it later, or that I can use as topics for this blog.
So, here are some highlights from my collection:
A 10-Minute Wait? Don’t Waste My Time
This article revisits the study commissioned by Great Clips in which people were asked how long was a...
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