Hashtag Smart Marketing with Founder Paul Mackiewicz

Paul Mackiewicz, founder of #Smart and an Army Veteran. After finding his way into the digital marketing industry working at two different INC 5000 fastest growing companies, Paul struck out on his own. Now he helps small businesses get a true understanding of their client’s behavior and uses that information to create highly effective digital marketing strategies.

Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast with John Lee Dumas

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David Shriner-Cahn, Overcoming Challenges as a Coach or Consultant

After 28 years as a highly-skilled employee, David was told that his job was over. In spite of the immediate trauma and fear, he knew that as his next step, he’d rather work for himself and have more control over his destiny. That was in 2006. Today, David is a thriving community builder, podcaster, and speaker. He helps high-achieving professionals, who have had a late-career job loss, build their consulting or coaching business, so they can do what they love and get paid what they’re worth.

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Tom Spadea, Spadea Lignana Franchise Attorneys

Founder of Spadea Lignana, the nation's premier franchise law firm representing over 300 brands worldwide. Before Tom was a franchise lawyer he spent 10+ years selling franchises as a broker and development professional.

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Simon Severino, Founder of Strategy Sprints

Are you maximizing your ROL? In the episode, Simon Severino explains how to increase your ROL (Return On Luck). He will explain how it is important for a CEO or a business owner to Fall in love with the problem, not the solution in addition to the three levers every CEO must have at their disposal.

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Keziah Robinson - Business Strategist and Coach

Keziah Robinson, CFA is a business strategist, CEO coach, and investor. Described by her clients as a “shapeshifter” who “can coach business owners through any challenge at any stage of their business,” Keziah helps small business CEOs navigate the operational and existential challenges of scaling up, pivoting, and/or selling a business they’ve put their blood sweat and tears into. As the founder of the independent advisory firm Cassia Partners, she provides tailored solutions that incorporate elements of design thinking and behavioral science.

Keziah holds a BS in Physics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the advisory board of Private Packs, an innovator in the fast-growing femtech industry.

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Angela Paules, Chief Marketing Officer at Buzz Franchise Brands - Marketing your Franchise

Angela Paules is the Chief Marketing Officer for Buzz Franchise Brands, the parent company for service brands Pool Scouts, Home Clean Heroes, and British Swim School, and founding franchisor for Mosquito Joe.

John Neral - Sometimes Franchising is Not Right, a Job is Better

John Neral helps mid-career professionals prepare, position, and promote who they are and what they do so they can SHOW UP to find a job they love or love the job they have. John's professional walk included a 25-year career in education and a longstanding corporate consultant for Fortune 500 giant, Casio America, Inc. John is the author of SHOW UP – Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career and Your Mid-Career GPS – Four Steps to Figuring Out What's Next and the host of "The Mid-Career GPS Podcast."

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CorpNet Business Services

Nellie is the CEO and Co-Founder of CorpNet.com, a resource for business incorporation and compliance filings across all 50 United States. Nellie and her husband are business partners and have been in this industry since 1997 when they started their first business with $100 which later sold to Intuit for $20 million. CorpNet.com was launched in 2009 and has consistently been recognized on the Inc.5000 list for its steady growth.

InnerView with Chris Wallace

Are your customer-facing employees creating exceptional customer experiences? Are they fully aligned to your brand story?

If you can’t answer with a resounding YES!, then our guest today, Chris Wallace, Co-Founder & President of InnerView, has a solution for you.

InnerView is a marketing consulting firm established to help companies reach and influence their most critical audiences – the people and partners that represent their brand.

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Roger Khoury - Market Vulnerability Analysis

Roger Khoury is an expert in Market Forecasting and has developed an innovation he calls "Market Vulnerability Analysis" which enables market participants to achieve consistent and sustainable performance results.

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Ian Bower - Graphic Rhythm

Joining us today is Ian Bower, founder of Graphic Rhythm. Pivoting from his role as a trained chef to creating a successful and innovative graphic design firm is not easy, but Ian happily took on the challenge. He has developed a passion for helping small businesses build customer confidence and loyalty through strong visual content and he is here to share some valuable information that he has learned along the way.

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EnterpriseAlumni - CEO and Co-Founder, James Sinclair

James Sinclair is the Chief Executive & Co-Founder of EnterpriseAlumni, the market-leading Alumni and Retiree Engagement Platform. Their software powers the corporate alumni networks of both medium-sized businesses and the world’s largest companies, including Google, LinkedIn, Citi, and Coca-Cola, leveraging a vast untapped pool of people for talent, sales, marketing, and community. EnterpriseAlumni helps companies looking to access a contingent labor pool, drive referrals, boomerang hires, accelerate business development, drive sales or just create a positive evangelist community.

James has a background in large enterprise innovation, having worked for companies including IBM, SAP & EDS. With a love of business acceleration, James also has a great deal of experience and expertise in creating, developing, and bringing brands to market and revitalizing those that need a little refresh. Outside of his day job, he contributes to the media on the future of work, large enterprise innovation, and entrepreneurship, and his upcoming book, The Alumni Advantage: How Innovative Companies Leverage Their Former Employees, will be published in July 2021.

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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

Credit Score Secrets Revealed - Move your Score 30 Points Today!

Franchise ResourcesTom ScardaMay 22, 2021credit score, fix credit score, franchise, franchise financing, franchise city, FICO, low cost franchises, franchise 2021Comment

Tom Scarda on the Business Bros podcast

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Avoid Bankruptcy with Second Wind Consultants - Rob Dinozzi

Second Wind Consultants is a business restructuring firm helping business owners resolve business debt and preserve businesses while avoiding bankruptcy. Second Wind works with franchisees, brands, and systems across the US in all categories with a solution to distress available under the Uniform Commercial Code.

For the brand, this means preserving a location, while avoiding closure or bankruptcy filings, giving the location a truly clean slate and a fresh start.

This streamlined out-of-court solution is understood in financial communities, but not widely known in the small business community.

The core concept is simple: When a business is preserved rather than liquidated, all parties benefit, including creditors.

*Photo by Taylor Young on Unsplash

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Giuseppe Grammatico - Franchise Consultant

Giuseppe Grammatico is a franchise veteran, coach, author, speaker & consultant who simplifies the process of franchising and excels at guiding his candidates to the business model that best suits their desired lifestyle. His greatest joy is helping people realize the American dream and sharing the freedom that comes from franchising.

Giuseppe is the author of Franchise Freedom: A New Manifesto For Your Financial And Time Freedom.

He is also the host of his own podcast: Franchise Freedom.

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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Loral Langemeier - 5 Time Bestselling Author and Wealth Expert

Loral Langemeier is one of today’s most visible and innovative money experts. She accelerates the conversation about money, sharing how to, not just survive this tough economic climate, but how to succeed and thrive. Loral is a money expert, sought-after speaker, entrepreneurial thought leader, and best-selling author of five books who is on a relentless mission to change the conversation about money and empower people around the world to become millionaires.

https://justmetloral.com/franchiseacademy

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