Two things I believe in is mentorship and the Law of Attraction. I really believe that you create your own destiny and that if you want it bad enough and take action you will attract the right things into your life and it will happen. This weekend I was in Cold Lake at Scraptacular 2. An awesome scrapbooking event put on by these awesome ladies at the MFSC (military base). At the end of Sat evening, I was exhausted I went back to my room and turned on the tv. I flipped the channel and came across my new favorite show (although I don't get to watch it very often) Fortune Hunters. It's a spinoff from Dragons Den and Diane Buckner is the host and it's an awesome show because it follows different Canadian businesses and shows how they got started and so on. Well, Saturday's show was on "franchising" which is what I've been working towards since I started my business a year ago.

On the show they showcased Dog Camps and Booster Juice. On the expert panel they had Mack from M & M Meat Shops and some other lawyer dude. I was really intrigued by Booster Juice because of the quick success they've had. The owner is Dale Wishewan who started his first store in Sherwood Park in 1999. The next year they opened 15 stores, then in 2001 50 and 2003 100 and now they have over 200 stores across North America and their revenues are over $46 million. One thing that intrigued me was that he said even though he is a millionaire he doesn't feel like one. So, me being who I am decided that maybe Dale would be a great guy to mentor me and help me. On Mon a.m. I decided to call him, I got his phone # but left it aside. I thought he wouldn't want to help me, I'm not good enough, but then on Tues, afternoon I finally got the courage to call him and he called me back within 10 min of my message.

We had such a great chat. He said absolutely he would love to mentor me (he loves to see people and their entrepreneurial spirit) and would love to go for lunch with me to share his experiences and answer any questions that I might have. And in fact, Mack from M & M Meat Shops had asked him when they were filming the Fortune Hunter show if he was mentoring anyone and he said that he would mentor someone if they came calling and sure enough I called. Dale thought it was pretty cool that I was calling to be mentored when Mack had just asked him if he was mentoring anyone. And I thought it was pretty cool that when I turned on the TV the Fortune Hunter's episode was about franchising which has been the focus of my business for the last little while. If you want to see their website, check it out at: www.boosterjuice.ca. They have a very cool website.

I have also decided that I am going to sell the Edmonton territory so that I can totally focus on franchising and have someone else focus on servicing the Edmonton and area. The great thing about the Edmonton territory is that I have been working hard on marketing for the past year so someone will be buying it complete with a busy schedule.

I'm really excited about the interest we've been having in our franchise opportunity. We have ladies waiting for their financing to go through in PEI, Ontario, and Regina. Plus we also have a couple ladies interested in the Cold Lake area. Every day we're getting emails from all around Canada and the U.S. We're really excited to see all this interest for our business opportunity and can't wait to see more lime green trucks or trailers traveling around. If you are interested in our franchise opportunity or know of someone who might be, please don't hesitate to call (780) 297-0019 or email us any time kelly@memoriesinmotionscrapbooking.com

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