http://www.regnordman.com/2005/02/18/everybody-wins-phil-harkins-and-keith-hollihan/ Noble Seekers in the World of Professional Sales Mon, 20 May 2013 00:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.regnordman.com/2005/02/18/everybody-wins-phil-harkins-and-keith-hollihan/comment-page-1/#comment-24660 Someonewhosbeenthere Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:57:39 +0000 http://www.regnordman.com/2005/02/18/everybody-wins-phil-harkins-and-keith-hollihan/#comment-24660 The studies of this book have been carried out in the US, and many reviews appearing – often as “anonymous” – probably originate from the US, too. Dave Liniger’s leadership and vision will be difficult to challenge and criticize yet the success of this business as it stands today is built on the failure of many more, whose plight was, of course, not researched and should be the subject of an anti-thesis. As a franchise organization, RE/MAX places its development risk on its franchisees, who pay fees to get into the illustrious club, and more fees to stay on. The business is built around “selling the dream” throughout the organizational layers of self-employed individuals, which is nothing but the hot air so appropriately flying its prominent logo. Sink or swim, once you’re inside, quite different from the glamorous façade that’s cosmetics of a well-oiled marketing machine. I’m glad Mr. Liniger and his cronies sleep soundly on their millions knowing, or conveniently forgetting, that they owe them to a great number of business failures of people who believed in the dream they bought and that turned out just to be inside fancy packaging.

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