Hello all! Now I cannot profess to know very much about Ikebana, but it is one of my wife Yoko’s favorite hobbies and she is surprisingly intuitive and talented for it. Sagagoryu is the type of Ikebana Yoko has studied at length as a hobby, but anyone even remotely knowledgable on the subject can tell […]
Growth at Smith’s Part 2 : What I See Happening This Fall And Well Beyond!
Hello again everyone! Recently I’ve been making a fairly continous rant about the virtues of local promotion and doing the basic leg work to grow your Smith’s franchise. I admit I have been a slow compared to some other fellow franchisees in getting this job done but I made a commitment to change that last Golden Week. In the relatively […]
August 2011 Festival Update
Well, in the early part of the season, (read July!) the weather sure wasn’t quite as good as it ought to have been for ideal fireworks viewing but by the time we got to Aug 4th it really started to come around. Particularly beautiful was Kobe Minato last Saturday night and for those luck souls out there […]