Name: Home Services Summit
Start: 17/02/2022 03:00 PM +00:00
End: 18/02/2022 10:00 PM +00:00

Scorpion is the leading provider of technology and services helping local businesses thrive. It helps local service providers understand their unique market dynamics, maximize their marketing efforts, and delight their customers. Scorpion offers SEO, Reviews, Advertising, Email Marketing, Chat and Messaging, Social Media, Websites, Lead Management, Appointment Scheduling, and more. The company brings everything together in a way that's easy to understand and manage, blending AI and teams of real people with vertical expertise to support customers in setting, measuring, and reaching their goals.

Scorpion

The International Franchise Professionals Group (IFPG) is a membership-based franchise consulting network with more than 1,200 franchisors, franchise consultants and vendor members. Our growing community is made up of Franchisors, Franchise Consultants and Brokers, Lenders, and other key players who help potential candidates through the process of identifying and investing in a franchise business.&nbsp;
Hundreds of nationally-recognized franchise companies have chosen the IFPG and its members to represent their brands. Hundreds of experienced Franchise Consultants have chosen the IFPG to power their businesses. All of these individuals understand the value of being associated with IFPG.
Together, our franchise broker group members guide aspiring business owners through the process of identifying and investing in franchise businesses. Our purpose-driven mission is based on integrity, ethics, and collaboration.
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International Franchise Professionals Group (IFPG)

Five Star Franchising is the parent company of 4 service brands:
<ul>
<li>Five Star Bath Solutions</li>
<li>Gotcha Covered</li>
<li>Bio-One</li>
<li>Joe Home Buyer</li>
</ul>
Five Star Franchising is actively acquiring home service brands. If you have any interest in selling your franchise system, please reach out.

Five Star Franchising

24/7 Sales &amp; Support center: We answer the phone when you don't want to and schedule appointments for you on your calendar
 Digital Lead Conversion: Use our sales agents to call, text, and email your leads within moments of receiving the lead
 For Home Service Businesses: We only support businesses in home services and especially franchised concepts

ProNexis

Find Alternative Financing Solutions with Guidant Financial Guidant believes that the heart and soul of the American economy is small business. We&rsquo;re here to help your candidates create the life they want through education, financing, and services that all work together. With Guidant&rsquo;s expert team and years of experience, we&rsquo;re here to make sure your candidates get started with your franchise and continue to be successful through the life of their business. The franchising industry relies on us for our service; we&rsquo;re regularly voted one of Entrepreneur&rsquo;s Top Franchise Suppliers.
We make funding fast. o &nbsp; We know how important fast funding is to close franchise deals so you can maintain and grow your units. With our full suite of financing solutions featuring 401(k) Business Financing, your clients can get their funding in as quick as 15 days, debt-free and cash-rich, without incurring expensive tax penalties. As the industry leader in Rollovers for Business Start-ups (ROBS aka 401(k) Business Financing) and with nearly two decades of experience, your clients can feel confident about funding with our reliable approach and find financing more accessible than ever.
We&rsquo;re experts and educators. o &nbsp; We understand franchisees can get overwhelmed when it comes to funding a franchise. We build their confidence in your brand with our educational approach and expert team dedicated to finding the right funding solution. With over 25,000 businesses funded, our expertise helps your clients feel confident about their franchise journey. And we don&rsquo;t just inform your clients &ndash; we&rsquo;re here for you, too. We&rsquo;re the go-to resource for financing trends. We&rsquo;re dedicated to ensuring our partners always have the most up-to-date information as the financing landscape changes. &nbsp;
We&rsquo;re dedicated to your success. o &nbsp; We&rsquo;re focused on helping you succeed. We provide free resources to support you like our prequalification tool, cobranded collateral, and live updates that keep you in the know every step of the way. We make sure you always know what&rsquo;s happening with your franchisees with our commitment to transparency, dedicated service, and industry-leading technology.

Guidant Financial

We drive consistently better decisions for franchises by unifying, understanding, and activating your data.
Transitiv&rsquo;s proprietary FIT Score&trade; tracks the pulse of your franchise by aggregating the leading indicators of performance into a single metric, revealing the health of your franchise locations - and the system as a whole. Now, instead of waiting to see results in their income statements, your franchisees will be alerted problems and notified of success in real-time, so you can work together to optimize results and stay ahead of problems.

Transitiv

The platform for managing and operating home services brands.
From tracking marketing efforts, delivering professional online proposals directly to clients, to lead capture, and much more. serviceminder.io provides unique tools and integrations designed to make your brand stand out from competitors.

serviceminder.io

ClickTecs is a franchise digital marketing agency, headquartered in Mississauga, Canada. ClickTecs specializes in digital marketing for Home Services franchises. We help both Franchisors &amp; Franchisees achieve their professional goals.&nbsp;
We are passionate about Lead Generation for our home services clients, and we succeed in generating high-quality leads by utilizng cutting-edge online marketing techniques to bring home services companies to the door of quality customers.&nbsp;
ClickTecs can assist Home Services Franchisors &amp; Franchisees with the following:
* Franchise Development - we help franchisors target high-quality franchise leads
* Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Management - we manage your pay-per-click platforms for both Franchisors and Franchisees via Google, LinkedIn and Facebook
* Local Store Marketing - we drive traffic to your franchisees' locations with hyper-locally targeted digital marketing campaigns&nbsp;
* Website Development - recalibrate your website and drive traffic to your newly-refreshed concept.
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - drive relevant traffic to your corporate site, and your franchisee's local sties with our SEO services.
* Social Media Optimization - improve your social media reach, and attract relevant followers.&nbsp;
See how ClickTecs can positively impact your Same Store Sales &amp; Store Count!&nbsp;
Book a Consultation Today!&nbsp;

ClickTecs Digital Marketing

FFC is a full-service, nationwide sales finance company that helps contractors offer their customers financing for home improvement projects. The LaunchPAD dealer portal features driver's license scanning and electronic documents, making financing fast and simple. The decisioning process creates more approvals for customers with A-D credit.

Foundation Finance Company

Fishman Public Relations

Zift is an enterprise technology company delivering Payments as a Service solutions through a technology infrastructure designed to allow software platforms to extend payments seamlessly to their users; marketplaces to enable payments for their sellers, and enterprise companies in need of a single point to manage their customers in a retail, MOTO, mPOS and online environment.

Zift

Digital Marketing Tools Built for Franchises
- email marketing - social media - digital ads - landing pages - surveys -&nbsp;
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Constant Contact&rsquo;s all-in-one digital marketing platform allows franchisors to ensure brand consistency across all locations, while empowering franchisees to customize content for local marketing. With easy-to-use tools and award-winning support, start saving time and driving more sales for your franchise brand&mdash;our dedicated team is here to train your franchisees and provide hands-on support.&nbsp;
Give your franchisees the digital marketing solution they need to succeed&mdash;with the hands-on training and support they deserve.&nbsp;
 Why choose Constant Contact?&nbsp;
 Constant Contact&rsquo;s digital marketing solution is built for franchises, and here are just a few ways we stand out from our competition:
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Training and support for franchisees: Customized training, marketing resources, and ongoing support for franchisees&mdash;on the phone or online
 Features built for franchise brands: Top-level controls and reporting tools for franchisors, locked branded templates to ensure brand compliance, and easy-to-use digital marketing tools for franchisees
 Competitive pricing and payment options: Specificalized pricing exclusively for franchise brands, and payment options like corporate paid (one consolidated invoice for all accounts) or end-user funded (each franchisee will receive an individual invoice)&nbsp;
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Constant Contact

Over the past year, we have watched large global organizations continue to scale while local businesses struggled. With our experience helping companies expand their business and build global teams across Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America &ndash; and understanding what it&rsquo;s like to work with the offshoring and outsourcing businesses &ndash; we saw an opportunity to create a better offshoring solution. We focus on talent from the Philippines because of their English-speaking, highly skilled, and available workforce with a culture of excellence, high work ethic, and strong values.
Our offering is structurally aligned to deliver better results for local businesses and give them the technology resources and capabilities to compete in a global world. One that treats its people like an asset, something you invest in and lifts the communities we are a part of. We believe that everyone can win.
We help you grow your business by connecting you with highly skilled labor, saving up to 70% on hiring similar roles in places like the United States, Australia, and Europe. When we connect you with a specific talent that fits your culture and values, you still get the benefits of DOXA&rsquo;s infrastructure while a full-time, dedicated resource is driving results for your business.
These team members can fulfill any function for your business including: Customer Service Sales Development CPA or Accountant Bookkeepers Accounts Receivables Social Media Managers Virtual Assistants Email Marketing Graphic Designers Web Development Project Manager Software Engineers And more! &nbsp;

DOXA

Franchise FastLane

Grow your business with confirmed jobs. With Thumbtack, you can set yourself up to get a steady flow of projects that fit your specific needs, from engaged customers interested in your business.&nbsp;

Thumbtack

Akin Gump

Home Franchise Concepts

Vya offers the industry&rsquo;s most advanced Marketing Portal powered by data intelligence. As a home services franchisor, you can enable your franchisees to easily execute data-driven marketing campaigns with relevant messaging targeted to specific audience segments. Vya&rsquo;s fully integrated marketing solution is designed to connect your brand and your franchisees with the audiences that matter most to achieve breakthrough results.

Franchise UnConference will not be happening this year, so a few of us came up with a one-time replacement conference called LIMITED EDITION UnConference. We are getting together in March for a chill time hosted by Five Star Franchising.
Here are the main details:
<ul>
<li>March 15th-17th, 2022</li>
<li>Park City, Utah</li>
<li>Slope time</li>
<li>Drinks</li>
<li>Jazz vs Bulls game (box seat experience)</li>
<li>Informal networking</li>
<li>Informal speakers</li>
</ul>
Sign up on our website.

LIMITED EDITION UnConference

Building Profitable Partnerships: Understanding the psychology of the franchise relationship.
Greg Nathan is a psychologist, best-selling author, and Founder of the highly respected Franchise Relationships Institute. Greg&rsquo;s research and franchising insights have shaped the global franchising sector over the past 20 years. He will share a number of practical insights from his work with over 500 brands on how to build a positive, united franchising culture. Greg will also explain how franchisees and franchisors can effectively work together to create profitable and successful businesses, despite the inevitable tensions that may occur from time to time in franchise relationships. &nbsp;Senior franchise executives and franchisees will find this session highly informative and useful.

Greg Nathan

Scott Abbott

Keynote: Greg Nathan

FRANCHIS(OR) FOCUSED SESSION
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we&rsquo;ve seen a massive influx of M&amp;A activity; some say this is just the start of the tidal wave to come. When it comes to preparing your business for next-level growth, taking on capital is paramount to the future of the brand. For some brands, there&rsquo;s one question right off the bat: where the hell do I start? Buckle in for this interactive session to learn: (i) what strategic investors, private equity firms and other potential investors value most when looking at your company; and (ii) what you can start doing today that will help you prepare for tomorrow.&nbsp;

Doug Kennealey

Zack Fishman

Jay Duke

Eric Williams

Preparing your Brand for Global Domination: How to Use Capital to Supercharge your System

Learn about how to be more effective at using third-party lead providers like Thumbtack and what one successful franchisee is doing to be successful with them.

Derek Burns

John Keene

Ben Fox

Seth Ellison

Third Party Lead Generation

Learn from some of the most successful franchisees. Hear what they are doing and saying throughout the whole sales process to eventually close the sale.

Paul Linenberg

Joe McSpadden

Rick McGregor

Heather McGregor

Scott Trendle

Sales Tips From Sales Pros

Learn how franchisees are using different means of consumer financing to serve more customers and come out with more money in their pockets.

Dean Hartley

Rob Santin

Craig Langan

Patrick O’Malley

Nate Hughes

Utilizing Consumer Financing

Head over to the Networking page and join any table to meet some new faces. You may also head over to the Booths page and meet some of our sponsors.

Agenda

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Scott Abbott

Chad Jones

Red Boswell

Brandon Haire

Andrew Mengason

Zachery Beutler

Joshua Cohen

Ralph Nilssen

Ryan Gaines

Jam Hashmi

Christian Pillat

Brad Voreis

Matthew Montoya

Ryan Zinke

Stacy Swift

Carin Skowronsky