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Is that today? Wow, blow me away.
I put on my 1 and 11 mukhi beads today when I usually don't wear them very
often.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:47
AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK,
here's the poop
Dear Brothers/Sisters,
The Solar Ingress into
Sidereal Aries is a day of great rejoicing for the
philosophically
oriented.
Happy Vishu and may the Absolute Self, whose symbol the Sun
is, bless you
with Grace Divine ! Vishu is derived from Vishuvath Vrittha,
which means the
Celestial Equator.
Web Astrologer G Kumar
http://www.eastrovedica.com
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Original Message -----
From: Bob Brigante
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:57
PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: OK, here's the
poop
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Emailed to me on the
side:
> >
> > Got a long voicemail from someone on the
course.
> >
> >
> > Anyhoo...Turns out the whole
thrust of this
> > 'recertification' seems to be marketing.
>
> Within the next 2-3 months there will be 500
> > storefronts in
malls. Each one will have all the
> > MAPI and movement
products, a largescreen TV with the
> > M channel, a children's
corner, a spa, a TM center.
> > There's more I can't
remember.
> > He wanted to know the 5 high end malls in the
area.
> > They will hire 4 people working in each store plus
a
> > manager. A man and woman from the course will be
>
> supervising. AND GET THIS. MAHARISHI WILL BE PAYING
>
> FOR EVERYTHING.
>
> ******************
>
> If the
TMO is looking for high-end malls, that means they're not
> going to do
the cheap strip mall option, and they're going to pay
> through the
nose, like $36/sq.ft (plus maybe another $10/sq.ft. for
> security,
utilities, taxes, etc. --
> http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1103/
):
>
> http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_bad_news_retailers/
>
>
In addition, renters at malls usually have to pay a percentage of
>
sales, something I doubt the TMO is going to be happy about:
>
>
http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_hot_topic_long/
>
>
In order to have a spa with separate facilities for men and women,
>
plus a MAPI store, plus a TM center, it sounds like you would need
>
about 2000 sq. ft. -- at $36/sq.ft. plus taxes etc, that's about
>
$7500/month. Plus two TM teachers at $4K/month each, one manager at
>
$5K/month, and 4 other employees at $3K/month, plus payroll taxes.
>
Total for rent and salaries: about $40K/month (plus whatever the mall
>
owners collect as percentage of TM store sales).
>
> Income from
MAPI products sales could not amount to much -- many of
> the items are
so overpriced (like honey at $50/lb.) or of little
> interest to the
general public, so these sales won't amount to much,
> and if meditators
start to shop for their MAPI products at these mall
> stores, it would
be merely cannibalizing sales from the MAPI.com web
>
site.
>
> The mall store will have to rely on the income from the
spa and from
> TM instruction, shooting for one spa treatment a day at
$645/day
> (taking this figure from The Raj's price list:
> http://www.theraj.com/rajoffers/panchakarma.html
). But the Raj has
> always lost money, even in a town with 2000
meditators, many of whom
> are rich and can afford these pricey
treatments. And, outside of
> Fairfield, there are many other spas, even
competing Ayurveda spas,
> that offer similar treatments, often at lower
prices, and usually in
> more attractive surroundings than a tiny room
in a mall.
>
> Initiating one person every day into TM every three
days at $2500, in
> addition to the one per day for the spa treatment,
would bring in
> enough money to break even ($645 x 30= $19350 plus
$2500 x 10=
> $25000, for a total of $44350/month), and a handful of
these mall
> stores may be able to meet these goals, which have to see a
spa
> treatment and one initiation every 3 days indefinitely to
stay
> solvent.
>
> But when you multiply the 500 proposed
stores by these numbers for
> spa treatments and initiations, it amounts
to 15,000 people a month
> in the USA seeking TM spa treatments -- a
very unlikely figure -- and
> 5,000 people a month starting TM, a figure
which has not been
> remotely approached since the wave of initiations
in the 70s after
> the Merv Griffin shows (when 50,000/month were
learning TM). And I
> don't see any reason why a different weighting of
needed numbers --
> more initiations into TM and fewer spa treatments,
or vice versa --
> could come up with a formula that could work for
these mall stores,
> since there is just not much happening for the TM
movement either in
> terms of people learning TM or buying Maharishi
Ayurveda treatment.
>
> Somebody should call in a consultant from
Booz Allen Hamilton or some
> other top consulting firm and bounce these
ideas off somebody
> reasonable before they commit to long-term leases
(which would
> probably be required since the spa would require
extensive
> modification to the leased mall space that would not be
suitable for
> many other applications) on a proposition that can't
possibly work.
>
> Bob
> http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html
>
>
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