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The Franchise King’s Weekend Round-Up, November 6th, 2010

Like busy beavers, my always motivated Royal subjects have been scouring the Franchise Kingdom's countryside for interesting franchise and small business news. Here's what they found;

His majesty's speaking prowess was called upon by the Network Solutions Social Media Swami to speak on the topic of franchise ownership, at the 2nd Annual GrowSmartBiz Conference in Washington DC. He was part of the Entrepreneur Boot Camp track, which was led by the CEO of Grow Biz Media, Rieva Lesonsky.

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Rieva Lesonsky and Joel Libava

The Franchise King® was also in DC to represent Small Business Trends.

The conference was well attended, and even featured really laid back, (but barely influential) folks like Jason Falls.

Joel and Jason



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Franchise friend, Paul Segreto, is putting on a FREE social media webinar for folks in the franchise industry on November 30th. It's worth attending. Go Here For Paul's Gig.

Finally, did you know that it's Movember? The Franchise King® is growing a mustache this month only, to help raise awareness for Cancer that affects men. Find out more about Movember, which raised over $40 million last year for Cancer Research.

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Joel Libava is The Franchise King® — an independent franchise advisor with 25+ years in the industry, two published books on franchising, and his writing has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, Entrepreneur® Magazine and others. In addition, he wrote exclusively for the U.S. Small Business Administration blog for eight years. He doesn't sell franchises. Instead, Joel helps you figure out if franchise ownership is actually right for you — and if it is, teaches you his powerful, proven-to-work franchise research techniques, so you can make a smart, informed decision on a franchise to own and be your own boss.

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