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Mark de Gorter with Workout Anytime

May 28, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Mark de Gorter with Workout Anytime

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Mark de Gorter has been Chief Operating Officer of Workout Anytime since July 1, 2015. From November, 2012 to July, 2015, he was Executive Vice President, Strategy & Development of Performance Health Systems, LLC in Lake Forest, California, a manufacturer of commercial fitness equipment for the health and fitness, medical and sports industries.

From June, 2009 to November, 2012, he was the President of Power Plate Americas, in Irvine, California, a provider of commercial fitness equipment and programming to the health and fitness, sports and medical/rehab industries. From September, 2006 to July, 2008 Mr. de Gorter was the Chief Operating Officer of Velocity Sports Performance Franchise Systems, LLC, in Irvine, California, a franchisor of performance training centers. From Mr. de Gorter has over 35 years experience in the health and fitness industry.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode

How Workout Anytime has navigated COVID-19
How they’ve been able to engage with members virtually
How communication has been with their franchise system during this time
The protocols that are in place now that the gyms are reopening

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Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.

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Brittany Thoms with See.Spark.Go

May 10, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Brittany Thoms with See.Spark.Go

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See.Spark.Go Co-Founder, President and publicity maven, Brittany Thoms began her career in fast-paced agencies promoting national accounts through entertainment and sports-related events.

At age 25, with a desire to return to the city that captured their hearts— Athens, Georgia—Brittany and her husband Andy decided to strike out on their own. Together, they founded See.Spark.Go in 2007.

Brittany has worked closely with North American marketing departments at companies including Nike, Motorola, General Mills, Columbia Sportswear, Airstream, Kanakuk and Mutual of Omaha. See.Spark.Go has become a signature agency for public relations, digital media strategy, social media and marketing communications for local, regional and nationally-recognized brands.

She also serves as a board member for Eagle Ranch, Break Into Business, and advises several other nonprofits on a regular basis. Brittany prides herself on the fact that See.Spark.Go tells the best stories in the world — stories that matter.

Connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and follow See.Spark.Go on Facebook and Instagram.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The importance of marketing and PR
Preparing now for the next season with communications
3 tips for managing a team through change
Why your marketing agency or dept. shouldn’t be the first to go
Defining Relationships AND Results + Enthusiasm Wins
Being a mom and a business owner during COVID-19

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Chris Mitchell, Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW

May 6, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Chris Mitchell, Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 229: Chris Mitchell, Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW

Chris Mitchell, Transworld Business Advisors, joins the show to discuss how business valuations have changed in the pandemic, the issues involved in selling or buying a business, and much more. The host of “North Fulton Business Radio” is John Ray and the show is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Chris Mitchell, Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW

Chris Mitchell is the owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW. His franchise location serves the Smyrna, Marietta, Roswell, and Kennesaw areas. He and his team are backed Backed by the success of the world’s largest business brokerage Transworld Business Advisors and with 40+ years experience and 10,000 businesses sold, Chris is a lifelong entrepreneur with a passion for creating successful careers and financial independence through business ownership.

If you are looking to buy a business, sell a business or franchise a successful local business, Chris and his team at Transworld Business Advisors of Atlanta NW are ready to help you succeed.

To contact Chris, email him directly or call 404-409-3972. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Chris’s background as an entrepreneur
buying a business
selling a business
how the pandemic has affected the business buying and selling landscape
impact of the Covid-19 environment on business valuations
advice for business owners thinking of selling
advice for individuals considering purchasing a business or purchasing a franchise

North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Kate Stroth, Farm Stores Georgia

April 30, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Kate Stroth, Farm Stores Georgia

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Kate Stroth, Farm Stores Georgia (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 226)

Farm Stores Georgia representative Kate Stroth joins “North Fulton Business Radio” to discuss this unique drive-through grocery-bakery-cafe concept and the franchise opportunities available in the state. The host of “North Fulton Business Radio” is John Ray and the show is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Farm Stores

Kate Stroth is the Area Representive for Farm Stores Georgia.

Farm Stores is a multi-generational brand with over 65 years delivering a unique neighborhood and community experience. As an essential business, they are a combination of a grocery store, bakery and café. They give their customers the freshest products in the most convenient and safest manner, all without ever having to leave the car!

They sell favorite grocery items combined with convenient fast café items like fresh baked bread, coffee and deli products: the equivalent of a supermarket express lane pick-up window!

Farm Stores’ customers love the convenience of driving through on their way to work for coffee and a breakfast sandwich or fresh pastry, and coming by again on the way home for a gallon of milk, eggs, and cereal.

As their customers’ needs continue to evolve, Farm Stores will evolve with them. Their model is built around convenience, quality, and service, not a locked down product that may go out of fashion.

More information is available at the Farm Stores website, and you can contact Kate by email.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Kate’s background and decision to affiliate with Farm Stores
the unique drive-through grocery-bakery-cafe business model of Farm Stores
neighborhood orientation
how the business fits the Covid-19 social distancing way of doing business
Farm Stores franchise opportunity
growth of the Farm Stores Georgia franchise system

Franchise Marketing Radio: Nick Lopez with LIME Painting

October 30, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Franchise Marketing Radio: Nick Lopez with LIME Painting

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Founder and CEO of LIME Painting, Nick Lopez, graduated high school, left Colorado as a first-generation college student, and headed to Michigan State University. Nick was planning on walking onto the wrestling team as a way to pay for his college tuition and cost of living. Unfortunately, upon his arrival on campus, Nick realized that a wrestling scholarship was at least a couple of years away. Needing a way to afford everything, Nick decided to hang up his wrestling shoes and embark on an entrepreneurial journey.

By the time he was 19, Nick had already founded his first painting company, Spartan College Painters, LLC. From that summer on, Nick would paint homes as a way to pay for tuition, books, and cost of living. As time began to pass, Nick realized that he was developing a real passion and real love for his new craft. It was during his third year as the owner of his own business that Nick began to understand that the past three years of painting didn’t have to be his last and that a future in the industry was something that made sense for him.

With hard work, a willingness to serve, and a little luck, Nick happened to stumble upon a massive need in the market as high-end properties and clients were struggling to find a consistent, high-quality painting company that also provided custom coatings and restoration solutions. It was from this moment on that Nick began to focus on running a business that would blow past the status-quo.

Nick used his five years at Michigan State University as a way to refine and fine-tune his existing business model. After finishing his degree, Nick and his soon-to-be wife decided to move back to Colorado to start their family. It wasn’t long after they completed their move that Nick launched LIME Painting in Denver as a way to establish the same, scalable model that he had developed in East Lansing.

Since his launch, and in the first four years of operation in Colorado, LIME Painting has surged past $5.5 million in revenue. It soon became abundantly clear that Nick needed to share this model with the rest of the country which is why the decision was made to open the business up to franchising.

Today, with LIME Painting, the United States now has a brand that understands how to deliver a consistently amazing painting experience to high-end homeowners.

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Franchise Marketing Radio: Dustin Distefano with A Place at Home Senior Focused Care

October 23, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Franchise Marketing Radio: Dustin Distefano with A Place at Home Senior Focused Care

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Dustin Distefano is an experienced, goal-oriented entrepreneur with 10+ years of management, sales, marketing, operations, and training experience. With a knack for building businesses, he focuses on achieving growth, profits, positive customer experiences and more for his A Place at Home Franchise Partners.

From his early managerial experience in customer-focused businesses, he developed an ability to recognize customer needs and anticipate concerns while providing fair solutions and became recognized as a trusted resource. Over the years, he relied on all of these while building two start-up businesses, A Place at Home, a senior-focused care company and NorEast Franchise Group, the holding company that is currently developing A Place at Home franchises nationwide.

Currently, Dustin is focused on coaching A Place at Home franchise partners to become successful while holding them accountable to brand standards of care and operations. Every franchise partner creates their goals and he assists them in achieving those goals through accountability, measures, and inspiration.

Personally, Dustin is married to Jana and has two daughters named, Easton and Camila, with a third baby girl on the way. Dustin enjoys travelling with his family, camping, husker football (even though it can be tough right now) and he takes pride in all his franchisees accomplishments in the system that he and Jerod built out of his basement.

Connect with Dustin on LinkedIn and follow A Place at Home on Twitter and Facebook.

Karla Brandau, Workplace Power Institute, and Jon Roman, Transworld Business Advisors of North Atlanta

February 19, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Karla Brandau, Workplace Power Institute, and Jon Roman, Transworld Business Advisors of North Atlanta

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**John Ray, Karla Brandau, and Jon Roman**

Karla Brandau, Workplace Power Institute

Karla Brandau is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute and a leading authority on leadership for a more productive workforce. For over 25 years she has developed customized programs for companies including Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, LexisNexis and BYD America. Government agencies that have benefited from her programs include NIH, NIDA, and the EPA.

Her book, How to Earn the Gift of Discretionary Effort, and the accompanying management certificate, establishes discretionary effort initiatives in companies. These initiatives change the culture of organizations by installing core principles that make earning the gift of discretionary effort from employees a reality.

Karla is a Certified Speaking Professional, a Registered Corporate Coach, a Certified Facilitator, a Certified Professional Motivators Analyst and a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst. For more information, go to Karla’s website at www.KarlaBrandau.com, call 770-923-0883, or email Karla at Karla@KarlaBrandau.com.

Jon Roman, Transworld Business Advisors of North Atlanta

Jon Roman is the Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of North Atlanta. Established over 40 years ago, Transworld Business Advisors is the world leader in the marketing and sales of businesses, franchises and commercial real estate. Ranked #1 in its category by Entrepreneur Magazine for several years, Transworld maintains an inventory of over 4,000 current and exclusive business listings. They have a network of over 500 brokers and agents, working in 200 offices across the US and throughout the world.

Transworld Business Advisors of North Atlanta is an award-winning team of nine agents, a franchise director, an office manager and a marketing/sales specialist, who will work diligently to help clients sell or franchise their business, or buy a new one. Their experience and professionalism will bring together sellers, buyers and third-party specialists, to successfully close every transaction.

For more information or to contact Jon, go to businessbrokersnorthatlanta.com or call 404-666-4486.

Franchise Industry Update with Marisa Felker of Washington Federal and Jeff Wolf of Quarles and Brady

June 28, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Franchise Industry Update with Marisa Felker of Washington Federal and Jeff Wolf of Quarles and Brady

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Franchise Industry Update with Marisa Felker of Washington Federal and Jeff Wolf of Quarles and Brady

In recent years the restaurant franchise industry has been growing approximately 6% per year, and it is currently a $256 billion industry with no signs of slowing. Arizona is among the hottest states for both new franchisees to get their starts and established franchisees to grow their businesses.

Washington Federal Bank’s Franchise Finance Division Team Leader, Marisa Felker and Quarles & Brady Franchise Law Partner, Jeff Wolf, get us caught up on what’s happening in the world of franchise, offering helpful tips for those looking to get into the industry – and those seeking to grow their current franchise businesses as well. Listen in and let us know what you think.

Washington Federal is a full-service national banking institution that focuses on business-to-business banking, commercial and equipment lending, as well as home loan and corporate real estate financing. It has 31 offices in Arizona including locations in Chandler, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear, Green Valley, Mesa, Yuma, Phoenix, Prescott Valley, Scottsdale, Sun City, Sun City West and Tucson. Washington Federal is committed to developing a strong and loyal relationship with clients, shareholders and the community at large.

Marisa Felker is the Franchise Finance Manager at Washington Federal. In mid-2028, Washington Federal launched a formal Franchise Finance Division focused on helping established restaurant franchisees secure funding for their businesses. The division is being led by industry veteran Felker, who will work from the Arizona Regional Headquarters office in Scottsdale and oversee the program across Washington Federal’s eight-state footprint.

Over her 25-year career, Felker has served as a leader in franchise funding and also brings expertise in the areas of private banking and portfolio management. She has worked in leadership roles with both CitiCapital and GE Capital in franchise finance. Felker holds a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Southern Illinois University. She earned her Master’s degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Connect with Marisa on LinkedIn and follow Washington Federal on Facebook and Twitter.

Quarles & Brady is a full-service AmLaw 200 firm with more than 500 attorneys offering an array of legal services to corporate and individual clients that range from small entrepreneurial businesses to Fortune 100 companies, with practice focuses in health care and life sciences, business law, labor and employment, real estate, data privacy and security, and complex litigation. The firm has offices in Chicago; Indianapolis; Madison; Milwaukee; Naples, Florida; Phoenix; Scottsdale; Tampa; Tucson; and Washington, D.C.

Jeff Wolf, a partner at Quarles & Brady in Phoenix, is a commercial litigator with nearly 30 years of experience representing clients in a variety of business sectors. His practice focuses on franchise, employment, health care, contract, partnership, real estate, and intellectual property matters. He also serves as outside general counsel to several Phoenix-based behavioral health care companies.

As a member of the firm’s national Franchise & Distribution team, Wolf devotes a significant part of his practice to representing franchisors in litigation involving issues of unpaid or under reported royalties, fraud, liquidated damages, system standards, earnings claims, encroachment, advertising funds, trademark and trade dress infringement, and vicarious liability. He also has extensive experience handling cases requiring the enforcement of restrictive covenants and other post-termination rights and the defense of franchise and consumer class actions and other system-threatening cases.

Wolf has handled numerous arbitrations, bench trials and jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He is a highly effective, detail- oriented and responsive attorney committed to helping clients resolve their disputes as cost efficiently as possible, whether through early settlement, mediation or, if necessary, trial.

Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn and follow Quarles & Brady on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Steve Greenbaum, Fran Tarkenton and Kevin Center with PostNet

January 29, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Steve Greenbaum, Fran Tarkenton and Kevin Center with PostNet

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Founded in 1992, PostNet is the leading business-to-business franchise known for providing customized, business-enhancing print, marketing and shipping solutions. Locally owned and operated PostNet locations offer full-service digital printing; direct mail; signage; document binding and finishing; graphic design; and ancillary business services, like private mailbox rental and more. They also offer professional packaging services and shipping with UPS, FedEx, DHL and the U.S. Postal Service. In addition, with the brand’s bricks and clicks business model, each PostNet franchise has both a physical storefront in the community as well as an Online Print Center, offering customers the benefits of quick online transactions and traditional face-to-face service. PostNet has nearly 700 franchise locations across 10 countries.

Fran Tarkenton, Kevin Center and Steve Greenbaum

Steve Greenbaum/Postnet

Steven J. Greenbaum, CFE, has served as Chief Executive Officer and director since he co-founded PostNet in 1992.

Steve is a Certified Franchise Executive and was honored with the International Franchise Association’s (IFA) Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003. In 2008, Steve served as Chairman of the IFA and is also a past Chair of IFA’s Educational Foundation, FranPAC Advisory Board, Convention and Membership Committees.

In addition, Steve serves on the board of the HealthStore Foundation,® a non-profit organization that has developed 75 franchised Child and Family Wellness Shops (www.cfwshops.com) in rural locations in Kenya.

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Fran Tarkenton/Tarkenton Companies

Founder

Fran Tarkenton knows better than most what it takes to succeed in a competitive arena. As one of the NFL’s all-time great competitors, he was inducted into the National Football League and Collegiate Football Halls of Fame and was an All-American athlete at the University of Georgia. As quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, Fran took his team to the 1973, 1974 and 1976 Super Bowls. He set the all-time NFL passing records for touchdowns (342), yards (47,003) and completions. Those records stood for 17 years.

Fran has taken the lessons learned on the field to become a successful, hands-on entrepreneur, building more than 20 companies during and after his NFL career, the largest reaching revenues of $142 million. At age 75, Fran continues to advise and support small businesses. In partnership with the University of Georgias Terry College of Business, Fran recently launched the Tarkenton Certificate in Entrepreneurship, a comprehensive online education program teaching entrepreneurs everything they need to start a new business and operate an existing business more effectively.

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Kevin Center/Postnet

Owner/operator

Atlanta native Kevin Center’s “aha” moment came about 18 months ago while listening to a speaker regale a crowd with the last words of a beloved mentor: “I’ve made millions of dollars, and I’ve achieved a wonderful title. But I look back and ask, ‘What was it all for?’ I didn’t spend enough time with my family. I didn’t have the deep friendships that I should have. I did great in the business world, but at what cost?”

Center isn’t about to make the same mistake. As the new PostNet area developer for greater Atlanta, Center does have ambitious plans to open his own center and help cultivate the PostNet brand in this hotbed of growth: Center wants to see 25-30 centers in the Metro Atlanta region in the next 10-12 years. But his ultimate goal in helping Atlanta small business owners isn’t about fame and fortune, but instead to achieve the flexibility and financial stability that will allow him to attend piano recitals and Little League baseball games — and to help other entrepreneurs achieve the same thing.

“If I have my center staffed appropriately, and if I have the ability to trust my managers, I will have the freedom to do what I need to do — or not even what I need to do — but what I like to do,” he says.

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