Anne Huntington Sharma is the President of Huntington Learning Center and joins us to share trends she is seeing in education and the franchise space.

Anne also discusses Huntington's locally-focused culture of giving back to community. We also chat about the documentaries on HBO where she's an associate producer including the latest film, "The Art of Making It."

Thanks to Constant Contact, Franchise Payments Network, and AnswerConnect.

Here is Jack Monson’s monthly column in Franchise Dictionary Magazine for July, 2021.

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The Franchise News Podcast for Wednesday, June 30, 2021.

Pictured: Mishka, winner of the #CoPilotPets contest from Pet Supplies Plus and Ziebart.

In the news this week:

Fat Brands, Fatburger, Hurricane Grill & Wings

Global Franchise Group, Great American Cookies, Hotdog on a Stick

Propelled Brands, FASTSIGNS, NerdsToGo, Catherine Monson

Suite Management Franchising 

BBQ Holdings, Famous Dave's, Granite City 

P.F. Chang's, Damola Adamolekun

Cousins Subs, Justin McCoy

Milwaukee Bucks

Ziebart, Larisa Walega

International Franchise Expo, Sheila Fischer

Fleet Feet, Jason Jabaut

Scenthound, Josh Lyon

Krystal Restaurants, Alice Crowder

Spring-Green Lawn Care, Pet Butler, George Bardenheier

Inspire Brands, John Varughese

SEFF, SoutheastFranchiseForum.com

Zaxby's

Tropical Smoothie Café

Honeybaked Ham

Today Gary Occhiogrosso of Franchise Growth Solutions and the MasterMind Minutes podcast shares trends he's spotting for the second half of the year in franchising and also the restaurant industry.

We also dive into Gary's thoughts about the culture of his business and for the franchise space.

Thanks to Suttle-Straus, Constant Contact, and Franchise Payments Network.

MasterMind Minutes with Gary Occhiogrosso

Today’s guest:  Michael Webster

Learn more from Gary at Franchise Growth Solutions

The Franchise News Podcast for Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

In the news this week:

The International Franchise Association, Matthew Haller

Luby's, Nicholas Perkins

Fuddruckers

Wingstop, Thighstop, Charlie Morrison

SPB Hospitality, Logan's Roadhouse

Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom, Jim Mazany

Petland, Joe Watson

Purdue University

SERVPRO, Rick Isaacson

Northern Trust, PGA Tour

SONIC Drive-In

Blaze Pizza, Sonja Tilki

Connect Agency, Tara Lopez

Eulerity, Craig Maron

Best Life Brands, Jennifer LoBianco

Wing Zone, Derek Roback, Dean Sasso

Dunkin', Rafael Acevedo

Batteries Plus, Joe Malmuth

Friendly's, David Ellis, Sylvia Becker

Inspire Brands, Kate Jaspon

Taffer's Tavern, George Barton

RAVE Restaurant Group, Clint Fendley

Pizza Inn, Pie Five Pizza

Ziebart, Tom Acosta, James Trahan

Texas Roadhouse, Regina Tobin

Shipley Do-nuts, Donna Spangler-Josephson

Ruby Tuesday, George Evans, Kathy Buckley

Thanks to Social Joey and iPost

Join Jack Monson and Kristen Pechacek behind the scenes making last minute plans for the upcoming IFA Marketing Workshop. Kirsten and Jack are once again emceeing this virtual event and invite you to listen in on their final planning session. The topics discussed at the workshop are:

Balancing Upper and Lower Funnel Tactics: Brand Building Versus Lead Gen

and

Bringing Brand Loyalty Back

Bonus: along the way, Kirsten shares how her brand, MassageLuxe, is handling both of these!

This virtual workshop is Thursday, June 24 at 2pm EDT. There are NO talking heads or panels of "experts" selling you their solutions. It's 100% peer to peer coaching. Please register now and join us. 

On Mondays, podcast host Jack Monson joins Mike McDowell, Certified Facebook Ad Buyer & Business Manager, to discuss Facebook tips for Franchises courtesy of Social Joey.

Today Mike has news and analysis of the announcements at the recent Facebook F8 event. Items include the rollout to all advertisers of Business Suite, more tools available for your Business Page, Instagram Messaging, and the all-new WhatsApp Business and how it can be used for franchises.

Shout out and congratulations to a friend of this podcast, Matt Haller, on being named CEO of The International Franchise Association!

Also, please join us August 31 – Sept 3 at Caesars Palace in Vegas for the 20th Annual Multi-Unit Franchising Conference!

Thanks to AnswerConnect, Franchise Payments Network, and Social Joey!This special episode was recorded in Chicago at one of this year's Franchise Shows organized by National Event Management.

We're on the road again with these friends in the Franchise space:

Emily George of RevLocal

Chris Wilson of Legacy Franchise Ventures

Fernando Meza of Oneupweb

Turner Gaw of North State Bank.

Join us for insights on the culture of each their brands and thoughts on what makes the culture of Franchising so compelling!

The Franchise News Podcast for Wednesday, June 16, 2021.

In the news this week:

National Federation of Independent Business, Bill Dunkelberg

Self Esteem Brands, Strong U, Chuck Runyon

Perkins, Michael Abt

Oxi Fresh, Jonathan Barnett

Chicken Salad Chick, Scott Deviney

CKE Restaurants, Hardeee's, Matthew Wells

Shake Shack, Katherine Fogerty

Pancheros, Joe Gale

H&R Block, Karen Orosco,

Bob Moretti, Roxane Harris

Pieology, Bijan Sami

Spring-Green, Pet Butler, Matt Jevne

MFV Expositions, Riese Rubin

International Franchise Association

Thanks to Social Joey and iPost