Introducing the Emerging Franchise Brands Podcast, your exclusive backstage pass into the dynamic world of franchising! Hosted by Frank Fiume, the visionary founder of the i9 Sports franchise, this podcast is your go-to source for untold stories and invaluable insights straight from the minds behind some of the most exciting emerging franchise brands.

Software/Technology.

With over 120 offices and nearly 7,000 associates throughout the U.S., CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) delivers top-level financial and employee business services to organizations of all sizes, as well as individual clients, by providing national-caliber expertise combined with highly personalized service delivered at the local level.

You already have an automatic stream of clicks and leads, or a database of recurring customers. The Lumin.ai Smart Scheduler brings you an automatic stream of appointments, so that you can focus on winning them from that point forward.

The Smart Scheduler stays awake 24x7 for your customer, in case there is a need to reschedule or cancel. It keeps your calendar and CRM up to date, notifying you in real time of any changes.

Docyt is a comprehensive, unified, AI-driven accounting automation software platform. This state-of-the-art solution transforms financial data into digital format, streamlines workflows, and continuously reconciles accounts, providing businesses with an immediate insight into their financial status. Docyt aims to slash both the expenses and technical intricacies related to bookkeeping and ancillary tasks, making accounting procedures within enterprises significantly more straightforward. Docyt is venture-funded and based in Santa Clara, CA. For more information, visit http://www.docyt.com.

Franchise Business Review (FBR) is the leading market research firm in the franchise industry specializing in satisfaction and engagement of your franchisees, employees, candidates, and customers. It's our mission to identify and recognize the very best franchise brands in the marketplace, while also helping good franchise companies become great. FBR has worked with over 1,100 leading franchise brands, including FastSigns, Sport Clips, Planet Fitness, Wendy's, and many more.

Design Pickle is a subscription creative services company powered by custom technology and a global subscription workforce across the globe. Design Pickle’s all-in-one creative services include graphic design, custom illustrations, presentation design, and motion graphics.

Founded in Scottsdale, Arizona Design Pickle was created to deliver reliable, affordable, and scalable creative content to any business. Since its 2015 inception, Design Pickle has completed over 1 million creative requests. Visit designpickle.com to learn more.

Nora Lighting is among the industry's leading designers and suppliers of energy-efficient lighting systems for commercial, architectural, retail and hospitality applications. Nora products have become benchmarks for innovation, quality and new energy-efficiency standards and include an exceptional line of LED products.

As Canada’s leading franchising, licensing and distribution law firm, with over 20 legal professionals dedicated to the industry, we provide a comprehensive range of franchise law, corporate, private equity financing, commercial, litigation, intellectual property, employment and real estate services to franchisors. For over 40 years, we have been working with regional, national and international franchisors in every sector of the franchise industry from launch to exit including with their international expansion. Franchise law is what we do. We have influenced the legal framework of the industry. We are highly ranked and rated in the field of franchise law, including in Chambers, Lexpert, Who’s Who Legal Global and Canada, Best Lawyers and Legal Eagles.

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.

Artichoke Media helps businesses to connect, and reach a consumer audience of millions each month. Our brands have been central to sectors such as food, education, crafts, health and franchising for decades, using print, digital, data and live events to entertain and inspire domestic and international communities.

Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.