Webinar Series Lineup

The Smart Growth Summit webinar series will focus on 3 main “building to scale”  topics: 

  1. 12 franchises sold in 12 months: Develop the right budget and franchise lead generation (and conversion) strategy for your brand. We rarely find a franchisor who fully understands this part of franchising.
  2. How to launch and onboard new franchisees successfully: You’re now selling franchises and are focused on scaling, and the poor onboarding of new franchisees can derail your momentum.  We’ll show you how to continue to scale successfully.
  3. Now that you’re growing, how you scale your team and yourself as the founder/CEO are equally important, since you can’t do it all. We will explore this session as part of the ½ day intensive workshops: It all starts with building and aligning your team on a one-page plan that highlights your purpose, values, and 1-to-3-year goals required to deliver your unique brand promise and differentiating strategies. We’ll then build a clear organization chart with seats on the bus that can deliver. Finally, we’ll show you how to build daily to annual habits and meeting rhythms that can ensure you and your team executes on your strategy.  
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

Learning Highlights: 

  • Establish a strong purpose and values that allow you to scale your culture both internally and externally while attracting the right people to your brand, including franchisees, vendors, customers, employees, and beyond; 
  • How to maintain a focus on system scalability without sacrificing profitability for both yourself and your franchisees; and
  • Understand the key habits to build strong, long lasting, two-way relationships with your franchise partners, which ultimately creates a better, more fair relationship. 
Julian Deck John DeHart Travis Tinning Patrick Wyness
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

Learning Highlights: 

  • Formulating an effective franchise development and lead generation strategy, answering where you should spend your money and how much your should spend;
  • Getting your ideal franchisee persona right;
  • Understanding the key franchise sales metrics;
  • And the missing part of lead generation: converting leads into candidates.

“My # 1 bit of advice for an emerging franchisor is to spend as much time and money on figuring out how to sell franchises as they possibly can. I rarely find a franchisor who gets this part of franchising.” - John

John DeHart Travis Tinning Hersh Kalles
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

Learning Highlights: 

  • Best practices for converting leads into candidates, and candidates into franchisees;
  • The importance and key elements of Discovery Days—should they be virtual or held in-person? That is the question at hand;
  • How to establish a valid call strategy to drive higher conversions; and 
  • The importance of crafting a compliant and compelling Financial Disclosure in your FDD. 
John DeHart Travis Tinning
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

Learning Highlights: 

  • The importance of a robust start-up and pre-launch marketing strategy;
  • How to improve onboarding and training of franchisees by laser focusing on what’s truly important for their early success. This includes the top 5 “Must Haves” for franchise systems; and
  • What effective pre- and post-launch coaching and support can mean to your system.
Julian Deck John DeHart Patrick Wyness
Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

More details to come!

Julian Deck John DeHart Hersh Kalles Travis Tinning Patrick Wyness