How to Live Stream – The Complete Guide

Live streaming of conferences and events is becoming more and more common. There are many reasons it may make sense for you to live stream portions of your next franchise event. Here are just a few: Let’s you reach a wider audience, perhaps including franchise teams or franchisees who are not able to attend in […]

Creating an Experience: Ten Inspired Ideas That Wow Meeting Attendees

We found this interesting and fresh blog post from IACC about creating a convention EXPERIENCE. We found it thought-provoking, brainstorm-worthy and thought it might be of use for your next franchise event. Learn About Creating a Convention EXPERIENCE. We’d love to hear what YOU think. Share your thoughts, along with ideas you’ve implemented which have created […]

Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip

We just love, love, love how Greg Nathan can take something seemingly simplistic and see the lessons in it. (And, for full transparency, we love the puppy picture, too.) Like this little red ball for example…The Little Red Ball “The simplest things often bring us the most joy and contain the most important lessons. Like the little […]

Running a Business with Time for Sandcastles with Troy Hazard

Troy Hazard is one of our most in-demand speakers, and in fact, he’s asked back more than any other speaker as well! Franchise audiences love his streetwise approach to business and life. Here’s a story he sometimes includes in his presentations about sand castles. We love it…you may as well!Getting the Most Out of Your Day […]

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 […]

Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip

Who doesn’t love a top 10 list? Especially when it’s from Greg Nathan‘s latest franchise research. If you’re looking to improve the effectiveness of your FAC, this is a must-read! 10 Things You Must Know About FACs “What do franchisees and franchisors care most deeply about?” Each year we conduct research to answer this question. […]

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 […]

Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip

Greg Nathan never writes a boring article and his latest focuses on the ONLY things that matter to drive franchise success. The research may surprise you. Enjoy! The New Science of Positive Franchising “I had some fun on the weekend editing an academic journal article, based on a large study FRI conducted into the factors that […]

The Data Driven Case for Vacation

We love it when HBR’s (Harvard Business Review) emails show up in our inbox! There’s always something that we find really interesting and relevant to the franchise world. This time it was their research about vacations 😊: “The question that needs to be asked is whether we are more productive and successful with fewer days, or […]