Troy Hazard: Create A More Meaningful Pre-Program Speaker Call
Once chosen (we’d love to help 😊), the success of your convention keynote speaker is hugely affected by your pre-program call with him/her, weeks prior to your event! Keynote speaker and consultative franchise partner, Troy Hazard, recently sat down with Katrina and shared his experience-driven strategy for making the pre-program call between a franchise leadership team […]
Stressed? Franchise Meeting Planners to the Rescue

There are some unique challenges to being a franchisor and over time, those challenges can take a toll causing stress and burnout. Popular keynoter, Evan Hackel, knows meeting planners have a major impact on helping franchises structure their conferences and events to focus on reducing burnout and stress for both the ‘zors and ‘zees, so they […]
24 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Speaker Investment!
Regardless of your overall franchise convention budget, we get it, choosing to allocate dollars for an outside speaker, is a big deal. It’s an investment, and it needs to pay dividends. Through the years, SPEAK! has compiled tips, through watching wild successes, as well as marginal results at times, to help franchisors get the most […]
Engage Mid to Low Level Performing Franchisees at Your Next Convention!
Through the years and most recently at the IFA Business Solutions Roundtable that I hosted again this year, we hear franchisors asking, “How can we increase the attendance of and then better engage our mid-level and low-level performing franchisees at our yearly conventions?” We always have our ears open for ideas and tips on this, […]