Posts tagged franchise best practices
What is an LLC?

Today we speak with Deborah Sweeney, founder of MyCorporation.com. Deborah shares the differences between an LLC and a corporation and the reasons why a “C” corporation is needed when a retirement plan is used for financing. In addition, we speak about why someone needs an entity for their business. MyCorporation.com

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Dr. Joni Carley, author of The Alchemy of Power: Mastering the Invisible Factors of Leadership

Dr. Joni Carley, author of "The Alchemy of Power: Mastering the Invisible Factors of Leadership,” advises and consults with business, non-profit and governmental leaders and also writes and speaks about values-driven leadership and cultural development. She holds a doctorate in The Reinvention of Work and is a United Nations ECOSOC Consultant.

Dr. Joni works with private and public sector leaders who want to do well and do good. Her leadership advisory services and cultural transformation articles and talks are geared toward a robust quadruple bottom line– Prosperity, People, Planet, Partnership, and Peace.

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Scott Greenberg - Author of The Wealthy Franchisee

Scott Greenberg helps companies and franchise brands boost unit-level performance. For more than two decades he’s worked full-time as a speaker, consultant, and coach, giving presentations in all 50 states and throughout the world with franchise clients that include McDonald’s, Great Clips, Anytime Fitness, Wyndham Hotel Group, RE/MAX, Smoothie King and countless other emerging, mid-sized and large franchise organizations.

For ten years Scott was a multi-unit franchisee with Edible Arrangements. In addition to building a top-ranked flagship location in Los Angeles, Scott acquired a second struggling location and made it profitable within the first year. His operation won the Edible Arrangements “Best Customer Service” and “Manager of the Year” awards out of more than 1000 locations worldwide.

Scott sold his enterprise in 2015 and today focuses full-time on speaking, coaching, and writing for the franchise industry. Scott is the author of the book The Wealthy Franchisee.

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Gary Occhiogrosso - Restaurant Franchises Post Covid-19

Gary Occhiogrosso is the Managing Partner of Franchise Growth Solutions, which is a national franchise development and sales firm. Their “Coach, Mentor & Grow Program” focuses on helping Franchisors with their franchise development, strategic planning, selling franchises and guiding franchisors in raising growth capital. Gary was selected as “Top 25 Fast Casual Restaurant Executive in the USA” by Fast Casual Magazine. In addition, is an adjunct instructor at NYU on the topics of Concept & Business Development as well as Franchising & Entrepreneurship. He is also the host of the “Small Business & Franchise Show” broadcast in New York City and is a contributing writer for Forbes on the topic of Franchising.

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Rebecca Monet - Zorakle Profiles

Rebecca Monet is the inventor of the meta-analysis methodology used in Zorakle’s SpotOn! Profile and SpotOn! Eclipse Reports which categorically compare prospective franchisees to a franchise system’s top performers. This meta-analysis approach provides insights no singular profile, survey, algorithm or assessment can, and has changed the way in which franchise companies recruit and select franchisees.

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Christy Wilson Delk

After 17 years in corporate sales and distribution, Christy Wilson Delk decided to risk it all. In 1996, she sold her house and cashed out her 401(k) for the down payment she needed to buy and build a Kids ‘R’ Kids Academy franchise in Orlando, Florida. Over the next 15 years, Christy expanded twice and grew her business into one of the largest franchises in her industry before her multi- million dollar exit in 2012.

Now, as a college professor and a sought after franchise industry expert, Christy has turned her focus to helping franchisees realize greater professional rewards by complimenting existing franchisor systems and processes with her 4 Pillars Approach.

Christy uses her cumulative business experience, her franchise expertise, and her book, Adventures in Franchise Ownership: 4 Pillars to Strengthen, Protect and Grow Your Business, to teach others how to implement their own 4 Pillars Approach and lead them to higher performance and success through consultations, workshops, and speaking engagements.

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Franchise Attorney, Nancy Lanard - The importance of legal review

Nancy Lanard is a highly regarded and accomplished franchise attorney with a focus on representing prospective franchisees in the evaluation of the franchise documents, setting up the entity for the business and negotiating the lease for the business if needed. Nancy’s firm is a 100 percent female operation based in Philadelphia, however, her covers every state in the union.

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Joe Mathews, Author, Speaker, Franchise Thought Leader

Mathews has been in franchising since 1985 after accepting his first position right out of college, recruiting franchisees for a 20-year old regional sandwich chain with just under 400 restaurants. That chain was Subway. While it had taken Subway 20 years to open 400 restaurants, they opened 3,000 restaurants over the next few years.

Mathews had four key takeaways from his early experience with Subway, which FPG still incorporates in its business model today.

First, he learned how to use franchising to create tremendous brand acceleration and market dominance.

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