Kai Kaapro

Co-Founder/CEO - TourScale. Trolley Pub, Paddle Pub & Tiki Pub Franchisor.

Serial Tour Entrepreneur. Party boat biz expert.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

Attention all tour entrepreneurs: the Tiki Pub franchise opportunity is now live in most states!

https://t.co/wzHwapGcZB

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@RandBusiness I'm going!

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@datarails have you guys considered adding an integration to @ZohoBooks ?

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

Do they know the businesses inside and out, or are these a bunch of franchise career professionals looking for royalties?

With TourScale, every single team member on our executive teams knows the industry from the ground up.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

This me as a young man, quitting his law career to start a crazy business called Trolley Pub. My first year running the business, I lived off of hardly any cash at all. I could barely pay the bills.

I loved every minute of it.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

I was our first driver, janitor, technician, customer service agent. At the end of each day of tours I was the one cleaning our bikes, the bathroom, turning the lights off.

When you are looking at franchise options you should ask yourself, who is behind the franchisor?

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@austin_rief Only thing I can really think of is flying private. Surely that's a massive QoL upgrade and not something you can afford to do at 2-3.

[Taylor Holiday @TaylorHoliday]

CTC has been responsible for delivering tens of thousands of ads a year for over a decade.

Here is the creative strategy process we have built.

You won't be surprised to find that it begins with clarity of the financial objective and flows out from there.

It goes like this...

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@RobertMayer @mhp_guy Now that's a move. Buy marinas and own the tour ops.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@biles_stephanie @mhp_guy Not true for non-USCG territory like many inland lakes.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@attnyrev @chamath Dumbest commenters on earth. They were reciting the definitions of bullying and harassment from their campus policies.

The representative is clearly baiting for the non-lawyer outrage machine. Hence the smirks, which are justified.

[Mary-Ann Baldwin ☮️ @maryannbaldwin]

What an exciting day for Raleigh! After a decade, we are moving forward on Bus Rapid Transit — the first BRT line in the state! This will be transformational for our City and provide reliable, frequent transit.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@Silverslocker @SwipeWright His reputation has never been stronger. Maybe he's lost his reputation with those whose brains got broken by COVID.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@RobertMayer Seems...bad

[JT Singh @FranchiseMnA]

Rule of thumb for franchisors

You can never charge franchisees more for products/services than they can pay to get themselves (not through the zor)

Being a franchisee should mean cost benefits at scale, not additional costs (i.e. - see what happened to Quiznos)

Our model is to negotiate bulk purchase discounts and pass along the majority of these savings to franchisees

Only way to win long term is create a win-win scenario for everyone involved!

[Charley Crockett @CharleyCrockett]

“Jamestown Ferry” Live from the Ryman
https://t.co/m5DGGfFHOu

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@elonmusk @stclairashley Sam Harris is 💯% correct on this matter.

[Kai Kaapro @ka1bear]

@KobeissiLetter These figures are highly misleading in absolute terms. Of course the total numbers are higher than in 2006 - there are more people, more accounts and the economy is much larger.

It's relative to consumer assets that matter. Those figures are strong.

But you know that.