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ABC Shark Tank Star Barbara Corcoran on Georgia Business Radio“Shark Tank” Co-Host and entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran is teaming up with Catherine Hernandez-Blades of Aflac to examine some important ways that small businesses especially businesses owned by women and consumers can stretch their dollars and stay competitive in the marketplace. They’ll also share information about new Aflac small-business solutions designed to help ease the burden of benefits administrators.Barbara Corcoran | Catherine Hernandez-BladesBarbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group.As one of the “Sharks” on ABC’s hit TV show, SHARK TANK, Barbara has ponied up her own money and invested in twenty-two businesses, competing to make those deals for all to see, then shepherding them to success.Her newest

David Rubinger: His Path to PublisherJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews David Rubinger, Market President and Publisher of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the leading commercial journal in Atlanta, GA and one of the most successful in the United States.David is an award-winning journalist and corporate communications executive who returned to his roots at Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2015 to become its Market President and Publisher. He began his career in Atlanta as a reporter with the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 1989. He later served as managing editor and editor until joining the PR firm Ketchum in 1999. After Ketchum, David led global communications for Equifax, Inc. and later ran Rubinger, Inc., his own marketing firm based in Atlanta that ran media communications for RMA, Receivables Management Association for the credit and collections industry.David earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He serves on the boards of the M

Ron Davison with AllCap Funding on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comExperienced entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. With over 13 years in Franchise Funding Ron and his team use data science to help give consumers a competitive edge to find the capital they need to start their dreams of owning their own business.Topics:TrendsProduct/ServiceUnsecured FundingExperience Market nicheIdeal clientsThe Franchise Business Radio show is a platform to bring together franchise professionals to connect, educate and collaborate to serve the f

Stephen Preuss and Erik Helgesen with PayMore on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comStephen R Preuss is the CEO of Paymore Group. Stephen has a 20+ year career as an entrepreneur with a heavy focus on commercial real estate where has executed over 450 transactions for a total dollar volume exceeding $4B. Stephen has also been a partner with Erik since 2004 in the buy & sell industry. Stephen is married with 2 children and resides on the North Shore of Long Island, NY where he was also born and raised.    Erik Helgesen, President of PayMore Group. Erik is a technology specialist

First Financial Cofounder, Dan Pace Interview on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comDan Pace is co-founder of First Financial Leasing & Finance and has over 30-years in the lending industry. He has a true passion for entrepreneurship and helping others achieve their dreams of business ownership. Dan and First Financial cut their teeth in the leasing space but now offer a full range of lending products including SBA, Rollover, Commercial Real Estate and Working Capital loans.Show Topics & Questions:• Tell us about First Financial, what you do and how you help your customers?

Data Visualization Intelligence has optimized an expense line item to become an opportunity for creating value!  Collecting and organizing data for visualization provides insight to make successful business decisions.  Our guest, Bruce Kopkin, CMO for  Data Visualization Intelligence, (DVI) explains how DVI reimagined Travel & Expenses to not only contain and reduce them but creates value by increasing business development opportunities from them.Data Visualization Intelligence, acronym DVI is not a travel agency, it is a data science company.  DVI applies intuitive visualizations to provide a complete view of a Company’s Travel & Expenses that make it obvious if and where there are issues that need to be addressed and leads to recognizing opportunities that otherwise could not have been seen. You can share the data DVI delivers with your current travel agencies to optimize your Travel Program, enhance Duty of Care, and reduce your T&E and meeting spend. DVI’s data science collection and analysis

Linked Alliance has automated prospecting that inexpensively discovers and schedules calls with quantified prospects. Whether you are as large as AT&T or are a small company, the success of your business is predicated upon achieving new sales.  Developing new business, marketing, and salespeople are among the most expensive budget line items.  Marketing builds brand awareness, but it is expensive.  Salespeople spend too much time hunting and qualifying prospects. The secret sauce at Linked Alliance is its cutting-edge technology extracts your prospects defined characteristics from LinkedIn’s huge data base and other sources and then Linked Alliance’s automated salesforce reaches out to your targeted prospects to schedule calls with them for you. Here to tell us how Linked Alliance can deliver quantified prospects for you are Linked Alliance’s President, Shaun Doorn and CMO, Paul Domanski.Shaun & Paul talk about: How a company can save the arduous tasks of lead generation and focus on making the sale?

Scott Greenberg Author of The Wealthy Franchisee on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comScott Greenberg helps franchisees improve their leadership skills and grow their business. He’s the author of the book The Wealthy Franchisee: Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise Superstar. Below are some interview excerpts.Currie:  What are the myths about why some franchisees succeed?Greenberg:  It’s such an important thing to talk about because everyone is looking at the top franchisees to replicate. The problem is we make a lot of assumptions about them. Honestly, a lot of we

Financial Jargon and Tax Benefits on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.com John Quattrocchi, owns a CPA practice. and offers end to end accounting and tax services to franchisors and franchisees. Quattrocchi was interviewed by Franchise Business Radio Host and Certified Franchise Consultant, Pamela Currie, and explains financial terms and tax advantages for business owners.Here are some interview excerpts.Currie: Explain what is meant by gross revenue versus net?Quattrocchi: Gross revenue is total sales. The total amount of money you bring in the house. Net profit is how much is left

Chip Bell Interview Part Two on Business Developers NetworkDr. Chip R. Bell has helped many Fortune 100 companies dramatically enhance their bottom lines and marketplace reputations through innovative customer-centric strategies that address the needs of today’s picky, fickle, vocal customers. Dr. Bell’s keynotes reveal the best practices from the organizations leading the customer loyalty charge, giving audiences powerful cutting-edge ideas and unique strategies they can immediately put into practice. Always customer-centered, Bell customizes all his presentations to meet unique organizational needs through a background study, pre-event conference call, and phone interviews to better understand specific audience challenges.He is considered a world-renowned authority on customer loyalty and service innovation. In fact, Global Gurus ranked him in 2020 for the sixth straight year in a row in the top three keynote speakers in the world on customer service.He also has written more than 700 columns for many busine

Chip Bell Interview Part One on Business Developers NetworkDr. Chip R. Bell has helped many Fortune 100 companies dramatically enhance their bottom lines and marketplace reputations through innovative customer-centric strategies that address the needs of today’s picky, fickle, vocal customers. Dr. Bell’s keynotes reveal the best practices from the organizations leading the customer loyalty charge, giving audiences powerful cutting-edge ideas and unique strategies they can immediately put into practice. Always customer-centered, Bell customizes all his presentations to meet unique organizational needs through a background study, pre-event conference call, and phone interviews to better understand specific audience challenges.He is considered a world-renowned authority on customer loyalty and service innovation. In fact, Global Gurus ranked him in 2020 for the sixth straight year in a row in the top three keynote speakers in the world on customer service.He also has written more than 700 columns for many busine

Join Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Lou DiPalma, Managing Partner of Garnet Capital Advisors, LLC located in Harrison, New York.Lou has 30 years of experience as a loan portfolio broker. Lou’s asset brokerage experience includes credit cards, installment loans, mortgage and commercial loan products. At Garnet, he manages the origination and sale efforts. Prior to Garnet, Lou was a founding member of the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Loan Sales Group where he provided loan brokerage and valuation expertise to the community bank sector.Lou earned a master’s degree from the American Institute of Banking and a Bachelor of Science Degree from St. Lawrence University. He has written for and been widely quoted in numerous industry publications including American Banker, The Financial Times (London) and Collections & Credit Risk. He is a frequent speaker at industry-sponsored events and has chaired Source Media’s National Collection and Credit Risk Conference. Capital Club RadioHosted by:

Bob Lewis and Adam Biedenbender with Closet & Storage Concepts and More Space Place on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comBob Lewis, President & CEO of Closet & Storage Concepts / More Space Place, founded the company in 1987 in the Philadelphia / Southern New Jersey area. We design, manufacture, and install a wide variety of custom closet, Murphy wall bed, garage, laundry room, pantry, home office and other space-saving home furnishing products. In 2000, Closet & Storage Concepts began offering franchise opportunities in the United States and Canada. In 2013 the company acquired the More Space Place franchise system. The privately held company has 43 locations, three company-owned and 40 franchise-owned, in 18

Michael Lamm: Stay Fighting on Capital Club RadioJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Michael Lamm, Managing Partner and co-founder of Corporate Advisory Solutions (CAS), LLC located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Michael oversees and executes M&A engagements, investment opportunities, compliance/regulatory assessments, strategic consulting, valuation and expert witness litigation matters while also charting the firm’s corporate direction and strategic growth plan.He and his partner, Mark Russell, have completed over 50 M&A transactions since the founding of CAS in 2013. Prior to CAS, Michael served as a Director at Kaulkin Ginsberg, an M&A strategic advisory firm specializing in the ARM industry, for 10 years where he executed over 70 M&A transactions and acted as a strategic advisor to both service providers and creditors.Michael earned an International Studies Degree from American University. He is actively involved in leading industry associations including ACA (C

Franworth, an equity firm accelerating the growth of emerging brands on Franchise Business RadioInterested in Franchise Ownership?Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comDave Keil, COOThe Lash LoungeDave Keil is President and Chief Operating Officer of Franworth, a growth equity firm that partners with and accelerates the growth of emerging brands. Franworth brings over 450 years of franchising experience to its partnership with The Lash Lounge, City Row, Madison Reed, skoah, The Barre Code, Title Boxing and several affiliate brands. A four-time franchise CEO, Keil most recently led The Lash Lounge, a Franworth brand and growing franchise system offering semi-permanent eyelash extensions, in locally-owned, luxurious salons. Prior to Franworth, Keil was CEO of Pure Barre. Before that, he se

HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR BUSINESS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE BUSINESS DEVELOPERS NETWORKINTROIN THE BEGINNING OF 2020 WE WERE FIRST MADE AWARE OF A CONTAGIOUS FLU SPREADINGTHROUGHOUT THE WORLD NAMED CORONAVIRUS WE FOLLOWED THE RECOMMENDED MEDICAL ADVISORY GUIDELINES AND SHELTERED IN OUR HOMES. WE WATCHED A CABLE SERIES WE ORDINARILY WOULD NOT HAVE WATCHED NAMED ‘LION KING’ AND EXPECTED TO RETURN TO NORMALCY IN A FEW WEEKS. WE HAD NO PREVIOUS POINT OF REFERNCE FOR ITS SERIOUSNESS, WEEKS TURNED INTO MONTHS, AND THE VIRUS, NOW CALLED COVID-19 HAS COMPLETELY DISRUPTED OUR LIVES AND OUR BUSINESSES.OUR GUEST, JEFF PLANK A PRINCIPAL IN CORPORATE ADVISORY AT WARREN AVERETT, ONE OF THE TOP 40 FULL-SERVICE ADVISORY AND PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS IS HERE TO DISCUSS A PRESSING ISSUE FOR ALL BUSINESSES, LARGE AND SMALL: “DO I GO, OR DO I GROW? HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR BUSINESS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC”?SHOWAS WEEKS TURNED INTO MONTHS COVID-19 HAS COMPLETELY DISRUPTED OUR LIVES AND OUR BUS

Deck Medic and Benetrends Financial on Franchise Business RadioPamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.com  or call 847-970-8765Jeff Konopack, VP Franchise DevelopmentDeck Medic, Inc.I joined the Deck Medic team back in 2008 after owning a painting company for 20 years. Deck Medic has been in the outdoor wood restoration business since 1990. After running the old company for a few years it occurred to me that the best way for us to grow was going to be through franchising. Employees care about their check in two weeks, owners care about the customer calling us back for a maintenance coat in 2 years.In 2012 we decided to turn Deck Medic into a franchise, it took a few years and a name change from Deck Bright to Deck Medic because of trademarks but in 2016 we started franchising. I am

Barry Banther, Chairman of the Board, The National Speakers Association Presenting at the NSA Georgia Chapter in Atlanta for the first ever NSA hybrid event...Live Audience, Zoom Live-stream and Interview on the Visionaries and Influencers Podcast!Barry Banther is a sought after family business leadership consultant and inspirational speaker. He has written over fifty leadership training programs used by Fortune 500 companies around the world and family owned businesses throughout America. Barry combines three decades of experience as a business leader, corporate executive, and public leader to make sure you are answering the right questions to develop your team, strengthen your family and grow your business. He is the best selling author of "A Leader's Gift - How to earn the right to be followed." Barry served in the administration of three Florida Governors as their appointee to oversee private higher education. He was elected to three back to back terms as Chairman of the Florida State Board of Independent

The Seven Magic Words that can Help You Develop Business Despite the CoronavirusCoronavirus will continue to discourage person-to- person meetings and no one knows when you will be able to attend industry events, so, how can you develop your pipeline during the Coronavirus pandemic?Dan Jourdan, AKA ‘The Sales Energizer’, one of Atlanta’s leading sales trainers doesn’t just tell you how to be an effective salesperson, his refreshingly bold style fills you with confidence and eager to make more calls.Listen to his interview to learn the seven magic words that can help you develop business despite the Coronavirus. He also shares his proven methods to close sales. He encourages you to call your clients and prospects and recommends bringing value to them. One of my favorite examples is a sure way for them to remain a client of yours for life, “Introduce them to a new client!”Connect with Dan Joudan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjourdanShow Host: Artie RudermanThe Business Developers Network where today’s leading

Fitness Machine Technician and Powers Brand Communications on Franchise Business RadioPamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.comMobile: 847-970-8765Email: Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comTo learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email Pam@FranchiseIntellect.comWith 35 years of experience in the fitness industry, selling equipment, owning retail locations, and owning and managing fitness centers, Don Powers saw an opportunity to provide a necessary service, a business based solely on repairing and maintaining fitness equipment.He founded Fitness Machine Technicians, based in the Philadelphia region, in 2002 to specialize in the maintenance and repair of exercise equipment for gyms, corporations, hotels, and private residences – basically everywhere fitness equipment is used. The model was so successful that he decided to franchise the company.Today the award-win