Partners

For information on partnerships and other marketing opportunities, please contact Dan Martin at 888-232-6878 Ext. 200 or email dan@ifxenterprises.com.

Sponsors Include:

Accelerated Payment Technologies™ delivers multi-channel payment solutions that provide comprehensive benefits to the franchise market. Offering a flexible platform that provides gateway, middleware and back-end technologies, our integrated solutions are fully PCI-DSS-Validated Payment Applications for PCI Compliance.

Accelerated simplifies the integration of payment processing, increasing the opportunity to grow using intelligent, innovative, next-generation payment solutions.

Linda Chastain
Director, Business Dvelopmenet
Phone: (702) 551-8373
Fax: (707) 736-7187
Email: linda.chastain@acceleratedpay.com

Dennis Bujnak
Channel Partner Manager
Phone: (800) 637-8268 ext 501
Email: dennis.bujnak@acceleratedpay.com

Website: www.acceleratedpay.com

Brian Smith
Founder
909 Ridgebrook Road, Suite 100D
Sparks, MD 21152
Email: Brian@BizBrag.com
Website: www.BizBrag.com

Bryan Cave is a leader in transactional and litigation representation with approximately 1,000 lawyers and other professionals practicing from 25 offices around the world.  Bryan Cave’s practice is built on over 135 years of performance at the highest level of our profession and dedication to our many clients.  Bryan Cave has a world-class reputation as a firm of choice for franchisors.  We have more California Board Certified franchise specialists than any other law firm.  Our group has developed a strong, cohesive practice built on core relationships that go back twenty years.  We have litigated and arbitrated franchise disputes in almost every state.  Our franchise lawyers are collectively responsible for more than 50 decisions reported in the field of franchising and more than 150 articles and speeches on franchise law.  Bryan Cave franchise lawyers have been singled out for their excellence by every peer-reviewed survey of franchise lawyers.

Ken Costello
120 Broadway, Suite 300 |
Santa Monica, CA  90401
Phone: (310) 576-2341
Fax: (310) 434-2041 
Website: bryancave.com

Customer Gateway is an entirely new way to address the risk posed by Social Media.

If you don’t have a clear strategy for influencing the conversations taking place online about your products, services and brand, you are putting your business at risk!

Customer Gateway provides an easy and inexpensive solution.  We offer a system for you to monitor, understand and respond to conversations taking place online.

Our suite of tools allows you to engage customers, build relationships, and influence Social Media conversations without having to allocate an entire department within your organization.

In addition to mitigating the risks posed by Social Media, we also provide you actionable metrics and reports about your franchises, your brand and your industry.  Get specific information from your customers and your competitors’ customers that can help you marketing strategy and franchise development.

You cannot control Social Media, but you can influence it using Customer Gateway!

Kent Merrell
Phone: 801-975-0109
Email: kent@olinsimc.com
Pedro Nogueiro
Phone: 415-382-1968
Email: pedro@olinsimc.com
Bill Herring
Phone: 972-235-7222
Email: bill@olinsimc.com
1847 West 2300 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84113

Website: www.customergateway.com

Deluxe Franchise Services, a Deluxe brand, focuses exclusively on the franchise industry. A manufacturer of business checks & forms who provides customized tools that help franchisors promote, protect and manage their brand. An on-line marketing portal enables franchisees easy access to franchisor approved key print, branded merchandise & apparel items and more. Deluxe Franchise Services also offers: website design & hosting, e-mail marketing campaigns, logo design services, and cash management & treasury supplies.

Ted Kosciak
Business Development Executive
Deluxe Franchise Services
500 Main Street
Groton, MA 01471
Phone: (978) 842-6477
Website: www.deluxefranchiseservices.com
Email: Ted.Kosciak@deluxe.com

Straightforward. Comprehensive. Proven. Affordable.  FranWise® is a consulting firm that offers the right solution to maximize your franchise system whether new, emerging or established.  From strategic planning to compliance and documentation, your system is covered.  FranWise® helps to successfully launch and grow your business through customized solutions in franchise sales, development, operations and training.  We now offer certified translations in over 80 languages – the perfect solution for international expansion and a multi-lingual franchise/staff base.

Mary Ann O'Connell
Phone: (714) 434-1516
Website:  www.FranWise.net
Email: maryann@franwise.net

FulCircle, Inc. offers our franchise partners a full suite of Marketing Execution Services including contact center support, payment processing, printing and fulfillment.

Steve Givens
SVP of Sales and Marketing
Phone: 719-352-7125
Website: www.fulcircle.com
Email: SGivens@fulcircle.com

For nearly a decade, Merchant Cash and Capital, LLC has been an industry leader in providing alternatives to traditional financing sources and an innovator in providing business cash advances and other financial services to franchisees. MCC specializes in offering a unique avenue to funding by purchasing a small, fixed percentage of future credit card revenues and advancing that money to qualified franchisees up front. The company is a privately held full service organization which employs 70+ individuals. This includes departments in origination, underwriting, finance, collections, and customer relations. Backed by institutional and high net worth investors, MCC has funded over 12,000 small businesses across nearly 20,000 transactions totaling in excess of $400MM.

Seth Broman
450 Park Ave. South
11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 545-3185
Email: sethb@merchantcashandcapital.com
Website: merchantcashandcapital.com

For the past nine years ReadyTalk has been the only conferencing provider that supports the franchise community with our executive class conference call and webinar platform.  We are confident we can share some great best practices in addition to saving you money with our new toll free audio included subscription models. If you’d like to discuss how ReadyTalk can support your 2012 franchisee initiatives please contact Josh White for additional information.

Josh White
Franchise Account Executive
1598 Wynkoop Street
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303.209.1526
www.readytalk.com

Since 1982 the Queensboro Shirt Company has been America's first choice for company logo apparel and accessories. With more than 10 Million shirts sold, Queensboro is the market leading embroidery specialist in logo business and work apparel, as well as other promotional bags, t-shirts, caps, jackets, mugs, chocolates, and accessories. In addition to helping clients prepare for trade shows, conventions, fund raising, and special events, Queensboro now offers businesses their own private labeled Logo E-Store Solution to order and distribute branded merchandise to employees, branch locations, and customers, without inventory, minimums, or shipping hassles. Find out more at www.queensboro.com and www.mycustomestore.com.

Paul Baron
Marketing Director
The Queensboro Shirt Company
1400 Marstellar St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
Phone: 678.571.2254
Website: queensboro.com
Email: paul@queensboro.com