If recruiting employees is about empowering, retaining employees is about celebrating—showing gratitude and appreciation. Keeping your employees happy and encouraging them to want to stay isn’t magic. Business owners should celebrate the new people coming on, and include their families. You want people to want to come to work. You want people who want to […]
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Not everything in life goes as planned. In some cases, a single unplanned event can change the entire trajectory of your life in an instant. In case you haven’t noticed, COVID-19 is one of those unplanned events. And it didn’t just change the trajectory of a few lives, or even millions of lives. This virus […]
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Can you imagine if the New England Patriots showed up to the playing field Super Bowl Sunday and said, “We haven’t practiced in a year, let’s try to put something together here and win the game.” How many drills do they go through at that level? How many videos do they watch? How many practices […]
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For me and Steve, franchisees aren’t numbers. Each franchisee is like family. That’s why people are leaving our competitors in droves to work with us. In fact, we recently had the COO of one of our biggest competitors call and say, “We’re not too concerned about you stealing our customers, we’re more worried about our people […]
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Paul and I didn’t plan to capture the number one spot in the $25 billion dollar Hotel Selection industry. Nor did we plan to eventually go on to have hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts, or experience nearly 25,000% growth over our first three years in business and make the Inc 500 twice, ranked […]
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Is approaching event planning as a franchisee for EventPrep®, a home-based, forward-thinking, full-service event planning and management company, too good to be true? What exactly makes a franchisee successful? Steve and I have actually developed a systematic way to go about penetrating the marketplace and ensuring our franchisees have every opportunity to reach the level […]
When Paul and I landed our first major contract, an $81 million contract to be exact, we were both ecstatic and terrified. We knew our entire futures rested on our abilities to deliver excellent event planning services on time, every time, especially right out of the gates. So when we had our first meeting with […]
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Most of us are trained from a very early age to know and trust this system: a good education leads to a good job, which leads to a career with benefits and advancement opportunities, which leads to climbing the corporate ladder until retirement. Most people reading this can relate to this scenario. Whatever it is […]
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