Franchise Today

This week on Franchise Today, host, Paul Segreto is joined by Michael Webster, franchise attorney, social media lawyer, chair of strategic committee International Association of Franchisees and Dealers, and Paul Steinberg, former franchisee and franchise attorney. This week's discussion will focus on the 34th Annual Meeting of the ABA Forum on Franchising and the guests' insight and perspective on...

This week on Franchise Today, host, Paul Segreto welcomes as his guest, Tom Spadea, a business and franchise attorney, and former franchise executive. Paul and Tom discuss the nuts and bolts of landlord and lender negotiations and how the same, done effectively, improves the chances of franchise success.

This week on Franchise Today, host, Paul Segreto is joined by social media maven and franchise professional, Deb Evans. Paul and Deb discuss FranCamp, the much-anticipated franchise / social media event being held in Nashville on Saturday, October 22nd. Deb is also co-host of another popular show on Blog Talk Radio, Social Geek Radio, where she discusses the use of today's social technologies on t...

International Franchising is front and center this week on Franchise Today as Host, Paul Segreto welcomes as his guest, Ray Hays, a seasoned international franchise executive and consultant. Hays has a successful 20-year track record of developing and supporting Master Franchisees worldwide, including actual field experience in 50 countries. He has earned his Certified Franchise Executive designat...

In this Encore Presentation on Franchise Today, Paul Segreto welcomed as his guest, David Melton. David is both a successful author and Domino's multi-unit franchisee with locations in New York and Connecticut. Focusing on David's book, "Hire the American Dream" the discussion outlined how to build a minimum-wage workforce into a high-performance, customer focused team. In addition, listen to how...

In this Encore Presentation on Franchise Today, Paul Segreto welcomed as his guest, David Melton. David is both a successful author and Domino's multi-unit franchisee with locations in New York and Connecticut. Focusing on David's book, "Hire the American Dream" the discussion outlined how to build a minimum-wage workforce into a high-performance, customer focused team. In addition, listen to how...

This week on Franchise Today, host, Paul Segreto, will be joined by Ben Litalien, a 20-year veteran of franchising, adjunct professor at Georgetown University and University of Maryland and franchising visionary. A developer of several franchise concepts and the former U.S. Franchise Manager for ExxonMobil's "On the Run" convenience store franchise, he has a broad range of franchise experience. Th...

This week on Franchise Today, host, Paul Segreto, welcomes as his guest, John Gordon, Principal of Pacific Management Consulting Group. Gordon is a finance and economics expert who provides research and niche earnings analysis, management consulting and advisory expertise to those who need to know about franchise and chain restaurants, hospitality and multi-unit retail sector companies. Paul and J...

This week on Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto, will be joined by Lon Safko, author of the best-selling book, The Social Media Bible. Lon is also the keynote speaker for the upcoming Franchise Social Media Summit on September, 21, 2011. Segreto, co-founder of the Summit, and Lon will discuss the Summit along with Lon's insight and persepctive on social media today and for the future. Franchise T...

In this Special Segment of Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto, is joined by several of the speakers' panel for the upcoming Franchise Social Media Summit, scheduled for September 21st. Paul, co-founder of the event along with Jeremy LaDuque, will discuss with Jeremy and other guests, including Franchise Today co-producer, Joe Caruso, the philosophy behind the event, what participants will learn a...

This segement of Franchise Today is an Encore Presentation. Just prior to the 2011 IFA Convention, Host, Paul Segreto, and IFA President, Steve Caldeira focused their attention on the IFA's Franchise Business Economic Outlook for 2011, IFA efforts on Capitol Hill and the then upcoming IFA Convention itself. Discussion also included a look back at Caldeira's first nine months at the helm of the Int...

This week on Franchise Today is an Encore Presentation of the last segment of the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series. In this segment of the seven-part series, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomed as his guest, Michael Webster, Franchisee Attorney and Chairperson of Strategic Committee at the International Association of Franchisees and Dealers. Joining Michael and Paul was Franchise Today Co-producer,...

Welcome to a Special Edition of Franchise Today. In this two-part special edition, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomes as his special guest, Greg Nathan. Greg has tremendous perspective and insight on franchise relationships formulated from twenty years of working with hundreds of franchise systems around the world, researching the science of franchise relations. With a team of psychologists at the Franc...

Welcome to a Special Edition of Franchise Today. In this two-part special edition, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomes as his special guest, Greg Nathan. Greg has tremendous perspective and insight on franchise relationships formulated from twenty years of working with hundreds of franchise systems around the world, researching the science of franchise relations. With a team of psychologists at the Franc...

This week on Franchise Today is another Encore Presentation from the recent Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today. In this segment, host, Paul Segreto welcomed as his guest, Adam Siegelheim, Franchise Attorney from Stark & Stark.  Adam provided a recap of the IFA Legal Symposium. In addition, Franchise Today Co-producer, Joe Caruso joined the show and discussed the Franchise Today and his insi...

This week on Franchise Today is an Encore Presentation from the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series. In this segment, John Tifford, Franchise Attorney and Partner at Plave Koch PLC, and host, Paul Segreto, discussed utilizing franchise brokers in todays digital world and specifically within social media, and in accordance with franchise sales best practices.

This week on Franchise Today we will revisit the fourth segment in this year's Franchise Legal Series. In this encore presentation, Host Paul Segreto welcomed Warren Lee Lewis as his guest. A Partner - Franchising and Licensing at Akerman Senterfitt, and a guest on last years legal series, Warren is the author of The Franchise Sellers Handbook. Paul and Warren discussed franchise sales best practi...

In the third segment of the recently completed 2nd Annual Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto, welcomed as his guest, Lee Plave, Owner and Co-founding Partner at Plave Koch PLC. Paul and Lee focused their discussion on utilizing social media within a franchise environment with emphasis on the legal perspective including social media policies and procedures, franchise sale...

This week on Franchise Today is an ENCORE PRESENTATION of the second segment of the recently completed Second Annual Franchise Legal Series on Franchise Today. Host, Paul Segreto was joined by Jonathan Redgrave, Attorney and Partner at Redgrave LLP, a law firm with singular focus on Information Law, including social media. From the franchise perspective, Jonathan and Paul discussed social media an...

This week on Franchise Today begins the ENCORE PERFORMANCE of the Second Annual Franchise Legal Series. The series was expanded to seven segments for 2011, up fom four segments last year. The series began with Franchise Attorney, Lane Fisher, joining Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto, to discuss Financial Performance Representations, or as they are more commonly kown throughout franchising, FPRs....

In this segment of Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto, and co-producer, Joe Caruso, took a look back at Franchise Today segments and series, and discussed their importance and relevance to franchising.

In this Encore Presentation of Franchise Today, Host, Paul Segreto, was joined by Amy Nichols, CEO and Founder of Dogtopia, a full-service dog day care, spa and boutique franchise. An avid participant within Social Media, especially Twitter, Amy shared her thoughts and insight about using Social Media on a national scale and at local levels for the benefit of all within the Dogtopia franchise orga...

On this segment of Franchise Today, Paul Segreto was joined by Deb Evans, President & CEO at Computer Explorers and BJ Emerson, Chief Technology Officer at Tasti D-Lite. The topic of discussion was social media from the franchisor perspective including benefits to the franchise organization, social media policies and procedures, and franchisee-franchisor collaboration for optimum results. As Deb a...

Steve Ellerhorst, Franchisee Association Leader, passed away on Memorial Day 2011. A year ago, Steve was a guest on Franchise Today. Host, Paul Segreto, and Steve discussed the benefits of independent franchise associations. In Steve's honor, today's show is an encore presentation of his guest appearance on Franchise Today.

In this segment of Franchise Today, originally broadcast October 2010, host, Paul Segreto, and co-producer, Joe Caruso mostly focused on frequently asked questions by franchisors about social media within franchising, and especially, utilizing social media as part of franchise lead generation efforts.