Stellar Service! You don’t have to take our word for it!!
Here at Franchise Speakers, we appreciate hearing frequently that we’re doing great things for our clients. “Stellar Service” is our mission and carefully anticipating our client’s needs is the foundation of how we have built our business. Did you know we run a one-hundred-point checklist on every speaker engagement? But don’t take our word for […]
IGNITE YOUR SALES with Meridith Elliott Powell!
3 Proven Sales Techniques to Start 2021 Strong Wednesday, December 9th at 2 pm EST or Thursday December 10th at 1. P.M. EST Join us with Franchise Speakers partner, Meridith Elliott Powell, in this virtual webinar guaranteed to strengthen your sales strategy, to build your sales pipeline and land more deals. In this program she will […]
Chris McChesney & The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Everyone who knows me, knows that I’m a nut about The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) practice. I speak from personal experience when I say 4DX is a game changing read for those interested in successfully hitting big vision goals, both personal and professional, while also effectively managing the non-negotiable […]
Dennis Snow Refocuses Franchisees on the Customer Experience: What Happens When Cinderella Takes a Coffee Break?
Dennis Snow encourages us to ask ourselves: How much of our focus (and time), our franchisees’ focus (and time) and their employees’ focus (and time) is spent fine-tuning goals, processes and tasks? What if we turned our lens around? What if we refocused and peered through the lens of our customers? Every detail of […]
The Day the Lights Went Out – Healthy Franchise Relations Tip #100
This week we are celebrating the 100th Healthy Franchise Relationships Tip from Greg Nathan! We consistently get great feedback from so many folks in the North American franchise community on these pithy, insightful and thought provoking ‘Tips’. Quite often, franchisors write in and let us know how they have used a particular tip to stimulate […]
When a Franchisee Calls – Greg Nathan Tip #81
This month’s tip from international Franchise Relations thought leader, Greg Nathan, dives into the critical value of an up-to-date and easy-to-access operations manual. In the article below, Greg suggests six great questions to ask yourself when evaluating your system’s operations manual. Before we dive into this month’s tip, here’s a quick update on Greg’s 2014 […]
We Need to Talk…It's About Your Chronic Procrastination
Okay, I have to admit, I’ve been procrastinating on a big project. In fact, what I have been pushing off is sitting down and organizing our blog posts for the next few months. So this morning, while actively procrastinating (see above and insert ‘email’ for ‘internet’) I sent my good friend Lee Plave a note […]
Alright Mr. Hazard, I'm Ready for My Close-Up!
I certainly hope I'm not as creepy as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard, but I WAS equally excited to get in front the camera with Troy Hazard for some major franchise talk! One of my favorite topics that Troy talks about as a franchise speaker is “Truth or Fear”. He explains one of his many […]
Social Influence for Non-Social Franchisees
This week’s blog post comes from Ford Saeks, a Business Growth and Internet Marketing specialist and SPEAK! team member. Ford helps franchisees find, attract and keep more customers through innovative local area marketing and social media strategies that are profit generating and easy-to-implement! How important it is for franchisees to engage in their local ‘social’ […]
For a Successful Event, Start With Your End Goal!
When we brainstorm speaker ideas with a franchisor, we ask a lot of questions. In fact, it’s not uncommon to have a client start the conversation with a request for a particular kind of speaker only to discover at the end, that they’d like to create an entirely different experience for their franchisees. In our […]
