{"id":6659,"date":"2012-06-20T03:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2016-01-08T03:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:46:14","slug":"nik-wallenda-franchisee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/nik-wallenda-franchisee","title":{"rendered":"Would Nik Wallenda Be a Good Franchisee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you watch…scratch that, did you attempt<\/em> to watch Nik Wallenda<\/strong> #WalkTheWire<\/strong> ?<\/p>\n

You do<\/em> know what I’m\u00a0referring\u00a0to, right?<\/p>\n

Well, just in case you were hanging out in your Glenn Beck designed<\/em> underground bunker last weekend for a practice “End of The World<\/em> “drill (and weren’t near a television<\/em>), allow me to clue you in on what you missed….
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(Photo of Nik Wallenda courtesy of Dave Pape-Flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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You missed Nik Wallenda<\/strong>, (a member of the Flying Wallenda family franchise<\/em>) walking across<\/del><\/strong>\u00a0over<\/strong>\u00a0Niagara\u00a0Falls on a tightrope.<\/strong>\u00a0Pretty amazing. Except for one little thing. Keep reading…<\/p>\n

Look closely. Do you see it? Closer…closer…there you go. You found it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wallenda is tethered to a high-tech safety harness<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Would you like to know why?<\/p>\n

So he won’t fall into The Falls and die<\/strong>. Allow me to share a Tweet<\/em> that I typed out during this live pulse-pounding event;<\/p>\n

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Call me crazy, but I thought that the whole purpose of being a daredevil was to dare the devil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Call me sick, but when my Mom called to tell me that some\u00a0nut-job\u00a0was attempting to walk across the entire\u00a0length\u00a0of\u00a0Niagara\u00a0Falls on a tightrope, I turned my\u00a0television\u00a0on hoping to see a splash. Didn’t you<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Call me a party pooper if you want, but as soon as I noticed-and zoomed in on the contraption that was quietly following old Nik during his daring walk, I looked over to my wife and yelled WTF<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

And then I turned the freak show off. I was really disappointed in Nik. There he was, walking ever so slowly across The Falls, sharing childhood memories with his Dad via a waterproof headset. Nik didn’t even look scared. As a matter of fact, Nik Wallenda seemed kind of laid back. Almost as if he wasn’t taking much risk.<\/p>\n

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Almost Like a Franchisee<\/h2>\n

I’ve worked with lots of potential franchise owners–franchisees<\/em>, who reminded me of Nik Wallenda<\/strong>. They were willing to take a risk–to a point, but really wanted to make sure that they had some type of safety mechanism. They wanted<\/del> needed to know that if they started to fall, something…or someone would be there to catch them. That’s why they were attracted to the business model of franchising\u00a0in the first place. They didn’t want to start a business from scratch.<\/p>\n

After all, franchising offers;<\/p>\n