FranServe is the largest franchise consulting & expansion organization. Currently, we have over 600 active, affiliated consultants. We represent over 500 franchise brands. Our corporate team of industry experts has more than 100 years of combined experience in the franchise industry and provides world class training, support, tools, and leadership to our growing organization of consultants.

The American Franchise Academy (AFA) is dedicated to the development of successful Multi-Unit Franchise Owners, their Multi-Unit leaders (District Managers) and their Unit Managers. The focus of the AFA is to assist franchise owners in developing the business systems for their organization so that they can maximize their franchise investment, increase their profits and build a successful multi-unit enterprise. With over 30 years of experience and successfully servicing hundreds of franchise owners and entrepreneurs in the US and around the world, the American Franchise Academy is the place business owners can turn to for solutions and knowledge.
We provide training and development programs for: 1) Unit Managers; 2) District Managers; and 3) Multi-Unit Franchisees.

Milestone drives online discovery and customer acquisition with our proprietary digital experience platform. They work with customers, such as Speedpro, Marriott, US Bank, Nissan, Sun Outdoors, Motel6, and Preferred Hotels among others to drive enhanced engagement and revenue at the franchisor and franchisee levels. Typical franchise packages involve both product from Milestone Digital Experience Platform, which includes website design and hosting, local, reviews, technical SEO & schema, FAQs & voice search with omnichannel marketing services to drive optimal traffic and growth. Annually, over 300 million visitors use websites developed on the Milestone CMS, 540M consumers click on content powered by Milestone Schemas, and 3.7B consumers search for businesses powered by Milestone Local. The Milestone platform is amongst the highest-rated MarTech platforms with awards and recognition from Forrester, G2, Adrian Awards, US Search Awards, Search Engine Land, CMS Wire, and many more organizations.

CT Corporation helps small businesses, corporations, and law firms around the world manage their most critical business and legal compliance responsibilities. With over 130 years of legal compliance experience and strong relationships with federal and state legislatures, CT Corporation has the expertise and flexibility to support a wide range of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

CT Corporation is part of Wolters Kluwer's Financial & Corporate Compliance (FCC) division, which provides legal, finance, and compliance professionals and small business owners with a broad spectrum of solutions, services, and expertise needed to help manage their financial and corporate compliance needs in dynamic markets and regulatory environments.

Scotty has been an entrepreneur dating back to his teen years, where he started small businesses mowing lawns, raking leaves and shoveling snow. In his early twenties, he began a career with a major news organization as a cameraman for the White House Press Corp. Several years later, Scotty could not ignore the calling of his entrepreneurial spirit, and so left the news industry to pursue a career in business.

After 35+ years of experiences Scotty has been a significant contributor in various senior leadership positions. Scotty is a team player and recently utilized his expertise in development to help build a well-known national fast-casual concept. His tenure in franchising has landed him on leadership panels at several franchise conferences. Scotty has also earned his certification as a CFE, Certified Franchise Executive.

We provide live, virtual, and hybrid event solutions to reach today’s audiences wherever they are – online, onstage, and onsite.

Many of the world’s most visible brands and causes look to LEO to deliver their most critical messages on the most important occasions. Our clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies, nationally recognized non-profits, and community organizations and associations. For more than a decade, we have earned our longstanding places on Event Marketer’s IT List and the Chief Marketer’s Top 200 Agencies with relentless dedication to quality, creativity, and value.

NEED FUNDING SOLUTIONS FOR NEW OR EXPANDING FRANCHISEES? The FranFund team works with your candidates to craft funding solutions that seamlessly accommodate both first-time franchise owners and expanding franchisees. The comprehensive portfolio of lenders nationwide ensures that we can offer attractive rates and terms in any market segment and geography, including emerging brands! FranFund SBA loan pre-approvals result in a successful loan 99.8% of the time. An SBA loan combined with the ROBS strategy for the equity injection = a new franchise owner! Call us to understand the difference!

Real Estate services for Franchisors and Franchisees including strategic planning, territory analysis, market and customer demographics, site selection and negotiation and coordination with legal and construction.

Our experienced team of in-house employment and immigration professionals, as well as our network of experienced immigration attorneys, helps foreign nationals obtain the EB-3 Green Card to work in the United States, and helps U.S. employers with solutions to chronic labor shortages of unskilled and low skilled workers.

We create a unified and cohesive social media strategy designed to generate results for your brand on a hyper-local level. Leverage the power of your entire network through a custom social marketing strategy.

We help franchise buyers own GOOD franchises. We do that by working with an elite group of franchise brokers, expertly trained to find GOOD franchises. The broker then matches the ideal franchise to the buyer and stays with the buyer through the award process to support their research. Together, we do a lot of GOOD in franchising.

Stay in your lane loves to work with companies to create and implement plans to help achieve their next phase of growth! This can include a variety of different marketing strategies, PR, evaluating strategies, team building strategies, franchise development support, or executive coaching. We focus on four main vertical: Executive strategic support, specific fractional roles, Project-based work and our education/training arm. We can help you with fractional franchise development, re-brand your company, educate your entire team on AI implementation, and speak at your conference. Anything to help you get your good brand to CULT brand status.