Franchise Marketing Radio: AI Edition

Jeff Salter is the founder and CEO of Caring Senior Service. Caring provides in-home, non-medical homecare services to help seniors maintain their independence and quality of life. While working at a home health care company, Jeff saw that seniors and families were not able to handle the challenges of aging in place. At 20 years [...]

Jerry "JDOG" Flanagan is an Army Veteran and CEO/Founder JDog Brands. JDog Brands is a 100 million dollar franchise system including JDOG JUNK REMOVAL AND HAULING AND JDOG CARPET CLEANING & FLOOR CARE servicing customers all around the US. With nearly 300 franchises nationwide, we are the largest Veteran Franchise in the world. We offer [...]

Serving as the Director of Onboarding and Training within Footprints Floors, Jon Jarvis takes on much of the onboarding processes for new Franchisees coming in for training. Entering into a new business venture can be intimidating, and that is why Jon places a premium on supporting and adding value to our owners, by arming them [...]

John Palumbo is the Sr. Director Franchise Development at A&W. Throughout his 20-year career he has had the great opportunity to work with some remarkable brands and companies in the QSR, Finance and Education categories. Still to this day the most amazing part of what he does remains helping people. The joy of watching new [...]

Charles Bonfiglio is an American entrepreneur, franchisor, and president and CEO of Tint World®. After successfully owning and growing a number of Meineke Car Care Centers and starting an automotive e-commerce business, he developed Tint World® to begin franchising in 2006. He built the Tint World® franchise system on proven principles that have been successfully implemented [...]

Bob Moore has almost 30 years of experience delivering results in the franchise industry. He spent 13 years with Domino's Pizza - the last 7 as a multi-unit franchisee, owning multiple Domino's stores. After selling his stores, Bob went onto work for a couple of "Top 200" Franchise Brands: ServiceMaster and Dunkin' Brands. At ServiceMaster, [...]

Rachel Southard, Brand President: Rachel joined Threshold Brands as the President of Men in Kilts in June of 2021. Prior to joining Threshold, Rachel was a consultant at an Ogilvy company where she led strategy behind digital experience initiatives for brands such as Southwest Airlines, Chick-Fil-A, Christian Brothers Automotive and Caesars. For the ten years [...]

DeNita Carani was recently named as Pet Wants Brand President. Carani, a franchising industry veteran and rescue dog mom, can discuss how she was drawn to the whole mission of the brand: promote the health and wellness of pets and how she plans to help grow Pet Wants, the only national provider of pet food [...]

Scott Oaks, Vice President of Franchise Development at Scoop Soldiers, is a senior level franchise development professional with over 15 years of experience working within all segments of franchising. He has a proven track record of success in franchise sales. Scott developed franchise development messaging, branding, and recruiting practices that directly impacted in positive franchise [...]

Mike Lenard is the founder and CEO of TaKorean, which launched in 2010. From a young age Mike was fascinated by street food vendors & has always loved cooking, which became his inspiration to launch TaKorean, a fast-casual Korean-inspired concept with Latin-American influence. Mike had a vision to bring a fresh twist on Korean flavors [...]

Paul Linenberg has been the President of Gotcha Covered since 2010 following a varied career in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship. Paul excels at being lucky, especially in being able to work with an amazing group of people at Gotcha Covered, and helping provide custom window treatments for people across the US and Canada. Paul grew [...]

Monty Bruell is an Atlanta-based partner at Oaklyn Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in mergers, acquisitions, capital raising and other significant financial transactions for small- and mid-sized businesses with up to $100 million in sales. Bruell focuses on serving the needs of small- to mid-sized minority and women owned business enterprises (MWBEs). He is [...]

Steve Heeley is the CEO of the leading premium, fast casual poke concept in the US. Pokeworks, the originators of Poke Your Way, serves poke bowls, poke burritos, and craveable Hawaiian-inspired sides, beverages,and desserts. Pokeworks serves only the freshest, highest-quality, sustainable seafood. Pokeworks is rapidly expanding through-out the US and internationally, and we are seeking [...]

Kristen Pechacek is the Chief Growth Officer of MassageLuXe. Kristen is responsible for consumer marketing and franchise growth. Kristen is a Certified Franchise Executive with the International Franchise Association and has been named as one of the Top 100 influential Women in Franchising by Business Woman Magazine. Prior to MassageLuXe, Kristen was with Self Esteem [...]

Joshua Tree Experts opened for business in 2005 as a general tree services and plant health care company in the Lehigh Valley, PA. From the early days, the focus was on training, safety, and best practices. Clients quickly began to recognize the "Joshua Tree Way" and how it was different from other companies. There has [...]

French-trained chef Grégoire Jacquet had a vision of a local restaurant offering quality fine dining-style food with the convenience of a quick carry-out experience. In 2002, Grégoire opened its doors as the first fine-fast-casual restaurant concept that serves gourmet sandwich and salad dishes, its famous potato puffs and scratch daily fresh-made french fries, all served [...]

David Fossas is a growth stage leader with a record of driving revenue and maturity of companies from startup to exit. Currently leading marketing for Restore Hyper Wellness. Prior to Restore, David led global brand for WP Engine, a growth-stage platform for building websites and digital experiences, from 2016 – 2020. He helped define its [...]

Victor Arechavaleta is the Vice President of Business Development of Farm Stores Franchising, and has been in this position since March of 2012. His responsibilities include management of all new business channels, franchise development, territory development, and product and supplier relationships. Prior to joining Farm Stores, Mr. Arechavaleta was the director of sales and marketing [...]

Jeremiah Cundiff has fourteen years of franchising experience, growing a broad range of franchise systems, from start-ups to large franchise systems with hundreds of millions in systemwide revenue. In his leadership role at Property Management Inc. , he's laser-focused on the two most important things in franchising: 1) Franchisee Satisfaction and 2) Franchisee Profitability. He [...]

Integrated Digital Strategies is a fast-growing digital marketing company with offices based in Amesbury, MA, and Orlando, FL. We are a committed team of professional digital marketers, constantly looking to better ourselves and our clients. With proven success developing 26 franchise brands across multiple industries, Joe Malmuth brings over 15 years of experience, progressive thinking, motivatio...

Integrated Digital Strategies is a fast-growing digital marketing company with offices based in Amesbury, MA, and Orlando, FL. We are a committed team of professional digital marketers, constantly looking to better ourselves and our clients. Carlos Rosado is the SEO Director with IDS, providing strategy, consulting and communication within the SEO space. Over 11 years of [...]

Integrated Digital Strategies is a fast-growing digital marketing company with offices based in Amesbury, MA, and Orlando, FL. We are a committed team of professional digital marketers, constantly looking to better ourselves and our clients. Steve Galligan, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrated Digital Strategies, has had a successful career with executive digital marketing experience in sales, [...]

Jonathan Weathington, CEO at Shuckin' Shack. As a Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail and restaurant industry, his desire focuses around bringing out the absolute best results in his teammates and co-workers. With a combination of analytical thinking, servant leadership, and true cultural dependency, they work together to achieve [...]

Paul Kamm is the Vice President of Operations for Pet Wants, a national dog/cat nutrition, and wellness company. Paul has spent 35+ years in the pet industry, most recently as Vice President of Sales and Operations for Jack's Pets, a regional full-line pet store chain. Previous positions at Jack's included Director of Operations and Director [...]

Eric Myers, CEO at Junk Junk Baby. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Eric started his career at telecom sales in Boston, MA. "Best business learning experience of my life. Pure boiler room culture. 150 cold calls a day. Crush quota or be crushed". For the next fifteen years, he meandered in [...]