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Franchise CEO Branding: The 10-Step Process to Become an Industry Thought Leader Most successful franchise brands are led by CEOs with a clear and compelling vision for the company. They understand the impact effective brand building and brand nurturing have on employee recruitment and retention, franchise marketing performance, franchise sales, franchisee profitability and growth, and [...]

Podcast: Show Me the Money…Through Marketing and PR with Graham Chapman When he was younger, 919 Marketing’s VP of Account Services, Graham Chapman, wanted to be a sports agent, like Jerry Maguire. Instead, he became…Graham Chapman, which is good when you consider how well he has helped 919 Marketing’s clients grow their franchises. On some [...]

Franchise Sales Is Harder Than Ever. What Now? Whether your franchise sales are breaking records or flatlining, you are reading this article because you see room for improvement. Your optimism and dedication sit beside the grim reality of today’s franchise sales market. A robust franchising landscape driven in part by the Great Recession now faces [...]

919 Marketing Recognized as America’s-Fastest Growing Franchise PR Company Agency Experienced Impressive 100 Percent Growth Rate RALEIGH, N.C. – (August 2019) – 919 Marketing is proud to be recognized as the fastest-growing franchise PR firm in the country. The company is ranked for the third time on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing [...]

Franchise SEO – A Guide for Optimizing Local & National Search Franchise brands face unique challenges when it comes to SEO. Unlike other industries where audiences and demographics are straightforward, franchise brands must consider national and local SEO with completely separate strategies. They also need to target both prospective franchisees, and end consumers who buy [...]

What Is Franchise Content Marketing? Content marketing is integral to the communications quiver. White papers, one-sheets, videos, testimonials, and blog posts enable B2Cs and B2Bs to nurture leads, retain customers, engage audiences, and enhance PR and communications. Though content marketing holds such promise, many franchisors and franchisees find success fleeting – if they ever find [...]

Why Your Franchisor Hates You As the founder of an agency that interacts with more than 20,000 franchisees on a daily basis, I’m in the middle of the inevitable tension that exists between franchisors and franchisees as the brand expands its geographical footprint with more and more franchisees coming on board. Consequently, we are often [...]

Do Your Franchisees Hate You? We interact daily with a deep roster of franchise-based brands with over 20,000 cumulative franchisees in the U.S. and worldwide. As you can imagine, this puts our agency right in the middle of the inevitable tension that exists and often escalates between the two parties as the brand expands its [...]

Dear PR Graduate: Now The Real Education Begins. America’s institutions of higher learning are letting their public-relations graduates down. And as a result, you recent graduates have little choice but to let America’s marketing and PR agencies down. Big time. There’s no other way to look at it. Here at 919 Marketing, we take a [...]

Don’t Find Yourself on the “Ridiculist” – Get Your Facts Straight. A few weeks ago, my son was working on a report for school.  He showed me what information he had gathered so far, and when I questioned one of the facts he told me, “Dad, it’s ok, I found in on the internet.”  Sure [...]