Reviews for Make It Happen! Snapp Your Way to Success in Business and in Life

The average rating for Make It Happen! Snapp Your Way to Success in Business and in Life based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-03 00:00:00 Susan Steckler Desperate need of an editor and proofreader There were a lot of simple errors that should have been caught by a good proofreader "She was land, sweet and clearly successful" "His reaction to his Mather's behavior" But mostly this needed a firm editor. It read like a schools research paper instead of a professional biography. There were more opinions than facts. And a good author and editor team would have woven the story around Martha Harper instead of the authors opinions about what Martha should have been feeling.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-18 00:00:00 Alex Yell Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business by Jane R. Plitt** Who invented retail franchising? Ray Kroc? (No, he wasn’t even the founder of McDonald’s.) Henry Ford? (No, he didn’t even invent the automobile.) The answer will likely surprise you. Her name was Martha Matilda Harper, a Canadian-American woman who founded a chain of hair and beauty salons in 1891 and manufactured her own line of hair care and beauty products. At least that’s what author Jane R. Plitt claims in a mediocre biography about this amazing woman and business pioneer. Even after reading this book, it’s still not clear to me where Harper got the idea of franchising her hair salon or whether she was really the first to invent the franchise. Singer sewing machines had a franchising system forty years earlier, but it seems that the qualifier “retail” or “business model format” makes Plitt’s claim valid. In any case, it’s a shame that Martha Matilda Harper has been largely forgotten, considering her rags-to-riches story and important business achievements.