Just 1 Easy Step to Choosing Your Next Awesome Franchise Speaker
Finding a perfect speaker match for your next event SHOULD be easy. But perhaps your event planning team’s process is time-consuming. Maybe it looks something like this: googling speakers by topic or looking into those suggested by your franchise team—often finding, after checking sources, that they are somewhat or even wildly out of your budget […]
Planning Template for Virtual and Live Events
Virtual meetings and events are the norm now and for the foreseeable future for the franchise industry. As franchise meeting and event planners are busy adapting to the many new ways to connect virtually and digitally with their franchisees and are adopting new technology and tools to engage franchise teams, we are getting a flood […]
Most Requested Franchise Breakout Topics for 2018
As a franchise speakers bureau, we spend most of our days talking to franchisors about their conference and conventions…with the goal of helping make them as effective as possible through utilizing outside speakers. So often this discussion centers around breakout sessions where critical learning provides takeaways for franchisee success. In hopes of helping franchisors with […]
Top Twelve Most Requested Franchise Keynote Topics for 2018
We received so many responses and thank-yous for last week’s Top 40 Breakout Topics for 2018 that we pulled together the Top 12 Most Requested Keynote Topics for 2018. Enjoy!!! Send Me The ListWe hope this spurs some ideas on your end. Please share your ideas and feedback with us and we’ll continue to create franchise convention lists and tips in […]
Ways to Increase Attendance & Engagement at Your Franchise Convention
We just had to share the latest blog post from our friends at Meeting Expectations. We love their work and they share such great information that helps everyone who plans franchise conferences and events. “Transforming a brand vision into fruitful franchise convention success takes a carefully laid out plan. From budget to timing, registration, and venue, […]
Speakers for Every Franchise Life Stage
Choosing the right speaker for your franchise’s life stage is crucial to the tone and success of your conference. Having been a franchisee twice, a franchisor once, and a consultant to 300+ franchise brands in 16 different countries, Troy Hazard is in a unique position to understand the importance of hiring the right speaker based on the size […]
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 […]
Spark Theme Ideas for Your Next Conference!
With 2018 approaching a halfway point, many of you have your 2018 events in the rearview mirror or will very soon. So over here at SPEAK! conversations with our franchise clients are turning more and more to 2019 events. Following those exploratory conversations, several times I’ve sent out SPEAK!’s Franchise Conference Theme Ideas, as a […]
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 […]
Fabulous Franchise Convention Ideas from your Peers!
Are you or a team member in the midst of planning your 2018 convention or conference? We understand both the significant franchisor investment, as well as the once a year opportunity to enhance franchise unity and to jump-start franchisee growth for your system. Based on the stakes, would it be helpful to have a bulleted […]
