John Francis: For the Love of Franchising
In keeping with the “love” theme this week 🙂 , we couldn’t come up with a better example of a speaker who loves franchising than John Francis. And franchising loves him! When talking to our clients, I cannot tell you how often we hear, “he’s worked with us, we love John, and our franchisees love […]
The SPEAK! ‘Month of Women’: Lisa Ford – Out-Think, Out-Serve, Out-Execute!
Welcome to Week #2 of SPEAK!’s “Month of Women”! If you missed Week #1, here’s the fact that led to our mission this month. Ready? Less than 10% of keynote speakers are women. Looking at the FANTASTIC female speakers we work with regularly, this should not be. So without further ado, next up is Lisa […]
Why Do 28% of Franchisees Get the Thumbs Down?
Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships Two-Minute Tip Sometimes it takes a staggering statistic, like the fact that 28% percent of franchisees receive poor performance scores from franchisor executives, in order to create the shift necessary to improve these relationships. In this week’s Two-Minute Healthy Franchise Relationship Tip from Greg Nathan, we get great insight on […]
Food Allergies! Don’t Overlook This Important Franchise Conference Detail
Managing a franchise conference is no small feat. There’s a reason they occur yearly: that can be how long they take to plan (and sometimes longer!). There are the meeting planner tasks we are all aware of: securing a venue, planning the content and agenda, hiring speakers, breakout trainers, emcees and entertainers, planning networking & […]
Achieve a Clear Vision for Your Franchise’s Success
Ford Saeks, Franchise Convention Speaker Extraordinaire, offers a simple three step process to create a “Massive Momentum Action Plan” to share with franchisees… Ford Saeks – Franchise Convention Speaker Extraordinaire Strategic planning is not always on top of the priority list for busy franchise owners. The day-to-day commitments of being a business owner (taking care […]
The Counter-Intuitive Way to Increase Your Franchise’s Productivity
Here’s a great article from Entrepreneur.com to pass along to your franchisees. If you’re looking to increase productivity you’re going to have to take a step back from what you’ve learned as the “American Way” – living and breathing work, putting all other aspects of your life on the back burner, putting in 50-70 hour […]
Is A Third Party Event Management Firm Worth the Cost? (Hint: Not Always)
In conversations with our franchisor clients, we are we are frequently asked when might be the right time to engage a third party event management firm. One of our valued partners, Actio Marketing recently posted a great article about just this topic and we thought it well worth sharing. Actio’s extensive experience working with many franchise and […]
Paying Tribute to American Workers – Happy Labor Day!
Nothing is more exciting to me these days that a three-day, holiday weekend at home! We are all so busy these days, the thought of hanging out with friends and neighbors, playing some music, spending time in my weaving studio, hiking with our Chief Fun Officer and generally chilling sounds like heaven. I was thinking […]
Building Rock Solid Relationships – Healthy Franchise Relationships Tip #103
In this week’s tip, Greg Nathan hones in on the importance of R-E-S-P-E-C-T with his deep understanding of how human beings function in the franchise relationship, with a distinctly Aussie flair! Building Rock Solid Relationships – Greg’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip #103By Greg Nathan In 1981 a young musician called Shane Howard made his […]
Whoops, Wrong Person! – Healthy Franchise Relationships Tip #102
There are few things worse than the sinking feeling when we realize a text or email is headed off to the wrong person! In this week’s Tip, Greg shares a scary tale of a business consultant verbally degrading a franchise to his colleagues. And don’t you know, he hadn’t hung the phone up properly and […]
