If this new marketing plan even has more than a 2 month life span, having MMY pay for everything is the ONLY way this has any chance of working, because the teachers won't have anywhere near the money required to lease mall space. It sounds to me as if they are copying the Aveda cosmetics shops, which I believe have been fairly successful. ONly the TMO wants our TM stores to be higher end than Aveda products. That is the key issue here - will our ultra expensive stuff find a market in the malls, or fail as did Tm at $2500/ person. Putting anything to sell in a mall with that great exposure is not a bad idea. I wonder if MMY has decided to spend a bunch of the money in his bank accounts on a last ditch effort to create a resurrgence of interest, to leave a lasting impression before he goes. What a contrast: they now say the dignity of the profession of teaching TM requires only full-time people (there is some truth to the idea that it seems more trustworthy and significant to learn to meditate from someone dedicated to it full-time) and yet it will be available in malls right alongside Old Navy stores or Bloomingdale's and the TMO's own cosmetics, herbs and honey.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > snip > > AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING > > FOR EVERYTHING. > > %%%%%%%%%%%% > > These are the critical words. Let's just see how this part looks after a few > months. > > L B S To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
