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Life is Beautiful when you are your own boss. There's nothing quite like it. Hello, I’m David Rutkauskas, Founder, President and CEO of Beautiful Brands International. Everyday my company helps people with an entrepreneurial spirit like yours live a beautiful life by creating wealth and sustainability through franchising. Through this blog, I want to show you how I do it...with my personal experience and advice for success. You are welcome to email me your questions to: askdavid@davidrutkauskas.com and I will answer some of them in my future posts.

  • Great Article in Urban Tulsa

    May 6, 2013

    My thanks go out to Jaime Adame for his fair and balanced story in the Urban Tulsa Weekly this week.

      I enjoyed reading his objective thoughts on the subject and chatting with him over the phone.  You can see the article for yourself here: http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A59516   After months of combating a systematic distortion of truth by Unhappy Franchisee it’s good to see objective reporting on the issue.   Our goal is not to bully anyone, despite what Sean Kelly accuses of. We honestly feel as a company that the per...continue reading
  • My Response: Crushing the Distortions

    April 28, 2013

    The following is a list of supposed misrepresentations brought forth by Unhappy Franchisee. After each one I give my response.

      As I said before, I’ve tried ignoring the lies, just as an adult attempts to ignore the temper tantrums of a toddler. But, now I can no longer do so: The tantrums (attacks) are too destructive. The lies are too numerous.   Please read and decide for yourself:   Alleged Misrepresentation #1: Beautiful Brands International (BBI) exaggerates the number of its franchise locations   Example: “BBI has 297 locations open around th...continue reading
  • Facing the Lies of UNHAPPY FRANCHISEE

    April 18, 2013

    How many times can you listen to someone lie about you…how many times can you hold your tongue while someone hurls outrageous insults your way…before you stand up and say something?

      As many of you know, both BBI and I have been attacked for the last year by an Internet blogger under the name Unhappyz and on a website Unhappyfranchisee.com as well as another twitter name of Franchisepick.    I’ve never met the man, I don’t know him, I’ve never talked to him and never heard of him until someone told me he was blogging about me in July 2012.   But, what we’ve seen from him is a constant barrage of unfounded t...continue reading