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In a crazy day of podcasting, the F.com Summer Tour team makes a pitstop at Saladworks HQ to chat with Eric Lavinder, VP of Franchise Development for the brand. In this chat, we discuss how Saladworks has been standing out amongst their competitors, their foray into non-traditional stores and their exciting vision with their CEO Kelly Roddy coming aboard.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

RALLO: www.rallio.com

Rallio is a powerful combination of social media technology and local agency. The easy-to-use technology enables franchisors and their franchisees to manage their entire social media presence, online reputation, and online directory listings in one dashboard for all locations.

The mobile app provides a simple way for franchisees to engage and submit local photos WITHOUT having to caption them. And the advocacy system turns net promoters into REAL promoters and incentives employees to share content that portrays your brand as a "best place to work".

Voted as the #1 social media technology platform and #6 marketing partner overall in the entrepreneur magazine's franchise supplier listing, Rallio will help you RALLY your employees and customers around your brand.

To learn more, visit Rallio.com

VALYANT.AI: www.valyant.ai

Imagine automating the order taking process at your restaurant and freeing your employees to focus on food preparation, payment processing and order accuracy. Valyant AI's artificial intelligence software, think Alexa or Google Home, can speak directly with your customers and take all drive through orders. As a result of automating this task, early Valyant customers have seen their customer’s wait times drop by 10% to 25% on average. The AI never gets tired and you can be assured that in every situation where it makes sense, customers will receive custom up-sell messages.

Valyant’s software uses data like trending food items, time of day, weather and even a customer’s decisiveness, to make specific product recommendations. This has resulted in an average order increase of 70%. That’s additional capital you could be earning today.

If you think your business could benefit from decreased wait times, and additional revenue, check out www.valyant.ai or contact them directly at [email protected] to learn more.

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Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

Our team was lucky enough to have DentalFixRx CRO Scott Mortier fly into DC for this fantastic interviewing overlooking the White House. In this discussion, we explore DentalFix’s parent company, Dental Whale, Scott’s opinions on content in franchise development/consumer marketing and parallels he sees between the dental space and the franchise industry.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

BDO: www.bdo.co

Successful franchise systems are based on a consistent approach to business processes and compliance, as well as sound operational and financial controls. BDO is a leader in franchise accounting and advisory services, providing a comprehensive suite of integrated, value-added services to franchisor and franchisee clients. The complex and diverse issues you face today warrant franchisors, franchisees, owners and senior management to work with a firm that combines substantial resources with practical services.

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Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

Our team hustled it to Washington DC after our morning meeting with Chris Grandpre of Outdoor Living brands, and to make it in for episode number two of the day on time we literally parked our bus on K. We had the pleasure of hosting the President of the International Franchise Association, Robert Cresanti.

In this episode you will learn

-some fun facts about franchising you may not know

-learn about the current political landscape and the top advocacy issues and initiatives on the hill that are impacting franchise business model

-how to get involved LOCALLY to help the #franchise cause. Be sure to pull out your phone RIGHT NOW and text FAN to 52886 to learn more

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING

www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

BUSCH GLOBAL: buschglobal.com/

Busch Global is more than a franchise development company. They help you reach your organizational goals through intelligent growth, which comes through understanding your franchise, your concept, your values and vision. The team then builds a plan that identifies the right franchisee targets, and the growth goals that you can successfully support. To learn more about Bush Global, visit www.BuschGobal.com.

BDO: www.bdo.co

Successful franchise systems are based on a consistent approach to business processes and compliance, as well as sound operational and financial controls. BDO is a leader in franchise accounting and advisory services, providing a comprehensive suite of integrated, value-added services to franchisor and franchisee clients. The complex and diverse issues you face today warrant franchisors, franchisees, owners and senior management to work with a firm that combines substantial resources with practical services.

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We really enjoyed this conversation with Chris Grandpre, the Chairman and CEO of Outdoor Living Brands, which is a multi franchise brand platform. Chris walked us through an update since he was last on the podcast in early 2018, which included: the process of divesting Mosquito Squad to Authority Brands and simultaneously executing a leveraged buyout for the control position in one of his other portfolio brands, along with consolidating ownership in Conservation Irrigation.

If you are looking to learn about how to prepare your brand to work with private equity or an investment bank, you will want to listen to this episode! We also got into other topics like how OLB is leveraging technology to gain an edge and much more.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING

www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

FRANCHISE HELP: www.franchisehelp.com/

FranchiseHelp is the industry's largest source of online franchise leads, the #1 lead generator for many of franchising's biggest brands, and has been ranked 4 years running as one of the country's fastest-growing private companies by Inc Magazine. Millions of people visit FranchiseHelp.com to find and research franchise opportunities. We want to introduce the most motivated of these prospects to your concept. Let FranchiseHelp's lead generation experts customize a powerful FranDev marketing program that will keep your franchise's development pipeline filled with a steady stream of fresh leads.

RALLO: www.rallio.com

Rallio is a powerful combination of social media technology and local agency

The easy-to-use technology enables franchisors and their franchisees to manage their entire social media presence, online reputation, and online directory listings in one dashboard for all locations.

The mobile app provides a simple way for franchisees to engage

The advocacy system turns net promoters into REAL promoters and incentives employees to share content that portrays your brand as a "best place to work"

Voted as the #1 social media technology platform and #6 marketing partner overall in the entrepreneur magazine's franchise supplier listing, Rallio will help you RALLY your employees and customers around your brand.

To learn more, visit Rallio.com

Follow Us On Facebook and LinkedIn:

@MODRNbusiness

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Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

On Day #24 we got to swing by the BUZZ FRANCHISE BRANDS office and catch up with Angela Paules, Chief Marketing Officer and Brian Garrison, Chief Operating Officer.

In the episode we explore their brand portfolio and brand platform, learn about their secret sauce to operational success, learn a few fun personal facts about our guests and much more!

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING

www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

FRAN FUNNEL: www.franfunnel.com/

FranFunnel's mobile and web apps help franchisors personally and automatically respond to leads via SMS and email so sales teams spend less time trying to get ahold of leads and more time closing deals. With nearly 70% of leads coming in outside of business hours and over 90% of leads preferring texting vs. calls, following up with leads immediately has never been more critical to franchise sales. With FranFunnel, franchisors award more franchises from the leads they're already generating."

RALLO: www.rallio.com

Rallio is a powerful combination of social media technology and local agency

The easy-to-use technology enables franchisors and their franchisees to manage their entire social media presence, online reputation, and online directory listings in one dashboard for all locations.

The mobile app provides a simple way for franchisees to engage

The advocacy system turns net promoters into REAL promoters and incentives employees to share content that portrays your brand as a "best place to work"

Voted as the #1 social media technology platform and #6 marketing partner overall in the entrepreneur magazine's franchise supplier listing, Rallio will help you RALLY your employees and customers around your brand.

To learn more, visit Rallio.com

In this episode, Zack Fishman Sits down with the team at East Coast Wings and learns about the new portfolio addition of Get Fried, and MUCH more!

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

VALYANT.AI: www.valyant.ai

Imagine automating the order taking process at your restaurant and freeing your employees to focus on food preparation, payment processing and order accuracy. Valyant AI's artificial intelligence software, think Alexa or Google Home, can speak directly with your customers and take all drive through orders. As a result of automating this task, early Valyant customers have seen their customer’s wait times drop by 10% to 25% on average. The AI never gets tired and you can be assured that in every situation where it makes sense, customers will receive custom up-sell messages.

Valyant’s software uses data like trending food items, time of day, weather and even a customer’s decisiveness, to make specific product recommendations. This has resulted in an average order increase of 70%. That’s additional capital you could be earning today.

If you think your business could benefit from decreased wait times, and additional revenue, check out www.valyant.ai or contact them directly at [email protected] to learn more.

Follow Us On Facebook and LinkedIn:

@MODRNbusiness

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On a quick stop in Virginia Beach (we didn’t make it to the beach, unfortunately) our team got to catch up with Loyalty Brands CMO Martha O’Gorman (and her adorable puppy). In this episode, we discuss Martha’s journey with Loyalty Brands CEO John Hewitt, some of the new brands they are launching and their philosophy on the brands they invest in as well.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

RALLO: www.rallio.com

Rallio is a powerful combination of social media technology and local agency. The easy-to-use technology enables franchisors and their franchisees to manage their entire social media presence, online reputation, and online directory listings in one dashboard for all locations.

The mobile app provides a simple way for franchisees to engage and submit local photos WITHOUT having to caption them. And the advocacy system turns net promoters into REAL promoters and incentives employees to share content that portrays your brand as a "best place to work".

Voted as the #1 social media technology platform and #6 marketing partner overall in Entrepreneur Magazine's franchise supplier listing, Rallio will help you RALLY your employees and customers around your brand.

To learn more, visit Rallio.com

Follow Us On Facebook and LinkedIn:

@MODRNbusiness

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Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

Driving through insane rain on the beginnings of our adventure on I-95, co-host Zack Fishman catches up with Josh Barker, VP of Franchise Development for Christian Brother Automotive. In this podcast, Josh goes through CBA’s culture and how it helps them succeed, how they differentiate in a noisy automotive space and what an ideal franchise candidate for Christian Brothers looks like.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

BDO: www.bdo.co

Successful franchise systems are based on a consistent approach to business processes and compliance, as well as sound operational and financial controls. BDO is a leader in franchise accounting and advisory services, providing a comprehensive suite of integrated, value-added services to franchisor and franchisee clients. The complex and diverse issues you face today warrant franchisors, franchisees, owners and senior management to work with a firm that combines substantial resources with practical services.

Follow Us On Facebook and LinkedIn:

@MODRNbusiness

@Zjfishman (insta too)

@RyanThomasHicks (insta too)

Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

This is a late post (as we recorded this on Friday of week 2) but we really enjoyed this discussion on DAY 12 of the tour with Tom Carr, VP of Marketing at Chicken Salad Chick. In this episode we learn briefly about Tom’s career journey then we get in to how Chicken Salad Chick approaches everything digital and marketing.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. To learn more, visit www.Scorpion.co/mb

RALLIO: www.rallio.com

Rallio is a powerful combination of social media technology and local agency. The easy-to-use technology enables franchisors and their franchisees to manage their entire social media presence, online reputation, and online directory listings in one dashboard for all locations.

The mobile app provides a simple way for franchisees to engage and submit local photos WITHOUT having to caption them. And the advocacy system turns net promoters into REAL promoters and incentives employees to share content that portrays your brand as a "best place to work".

Voted as the #1 social media technology platform and #6 marketing partner overall in Entrepreneur Magazine's franchise supplier listing, Rallio will help you RALLY your employees and customers around your brand.

To learn more, visit Rallio.com

VALYANT.AI: www.valyant.ai

Imagine automating the order taking process at your restaurant and freeing your employees to focus on food preparation, payment processing and order accuracy. Valyant AI's artificial intelligence software, think Alexa or Google Home, can speak directly with your customers and take all drive through orders. As a result of automating this task, early Valyant customers have seen their customer’s wait times drop by 10% to 25% on average. The AI never gets tired and you can be assured that in every situation where it makes sense, customers will receive custom up-sell messages.

Valyant’s software uses data like trending food items, time of day, weather and even a customer’s decisiveness, to make specific product recommendations. This has resulted in an average order increase of 70%. That’s additional capital you could be earning today.

If you think your business could benefit from decreased wait times, and additional revenue, check out www.valyant.ai or contact them directly at [email protected] to learn more.

RPM: www.openmyfranchise.com

Open for business - a simple term but a complex process; Let RPM help you. We are a real estate/project management firm whose main goal is to turnkey the opening process for both franchisees and franchisors. Let us manage the brokers, architects, contractors and other various vendors. Allowing you and your franchisees to focus on the training, marketing, and hiring. We save you on average 20% time and 17% total project cost. Check us out at www.openmyfranchise.com to see how we can help you

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Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever

Fresh off a fantastic weekend in Charlotte with our sponsor, Rob Cambruzzi of RPM Group, our team returns to his offices to interview an up-and-comer in the boutique fitness industry in Adam Rice, CEO of ISIElite Training. In this segment, we discuss Adam’s differentiation methods in a crowded space, his philosophy on building a culture and how fitness helped change him as a person.

SPONSORS:

SCORPION INTERNET MARKETING: www.Scorpion.co/mb

Named the #1 franchise marketing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine, Scorpion delivers all-in-one solutions for franchise brands looking to defeat disjointed marketing and increase revenue.

As a marketing partner, Scorpion assists franchises in the management of branding, website design, online listings, paid advertising, and more, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.

Follow Us On Facebook and LinkedIn:

@MODRNbusiness

@Zjfishman (insta too)

@RyanThomasHicks (insta too)

Title Sponsor of the Summer Tour: Franchisors.com

Audio Engineer: Ben Kliever