Craft Bank offers the Atlanta market a fresh approach to business banking with impeccable digital offerings and a steadfast commitment to the relationships we build. The bank’s holistic approach is designed to support business owners' financial needs – both business and personal – with a dedicated team backed by a nimble technology platform making banking easy, relevant, and purposeful. Member FDIC.

Specialized Accounting Services (SAS) helps build the value of a franchise. We provide stable and accurate accounting support to help franchisees make more informed decisions and enable them to work to increase the profitability of their stores. SAS’s efforts help franchisors continue to maintain a healthy group of profitable stores that reflect the value of the brand and demonstrate to future franchisees the reason to invest in your organization. We partner with the individual store owners and collaborate with franchise leadership to bring best in class ideas to keep the business fresh and growing.

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.

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.

From field to franchise, ’47Concepts is the only platform built exclusively for B2B eCommerce, and it’s not just for the giants anymore! We successfully support top brands across 90,000 locations in Retail, Quick Service Restaurants, Fulfillment, and Print. That’s why companies such as Mattress Firm, Panda Express, Taco Bueno, Shell, and Synchrony Financial trust us to deliver results. Our elite technology is now accessible to small and mid-market companies. We’ve already proven results with the major players. Now it’s time for YOU to experience exponential growth with ‘47C solutions. Come grow with us!

Cheng Cohen LLC is a Chicago based law firm that provides uncompromising client service and sound and practical legal advice to franchise brands.

Founded in 2004, Fish is a full-service, national communications firm specializing in franchise and multi-location public relations and marketing. Our clients span a variety of industries, including the restaurant, retail, hospitality, home services, fitness, beauty, and health/wellness segments. We’re proud to work with nationally recognized brands such as: Inspire Brands; Self Esteem Brands; Caribou Coffee; Blaze Pizza; Authority Brands; Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa; Smoothie King, and more.

From brand building, national media relations, and influencer marketing to local grand openings, crisis management and corporate communications, Fish’s expertise in communications runs deep and our creative, strategic approach to PR drives impactful results.

Our media relations campaigns consistently land our partners coverage in the most widely read and watched consumer and business outlets nationwide. We love developing creative ways to get media talking about the brands we work with — and getting customers and potential franchisees talking about them, too.

Fish has received numerous awards for our work, including being named a 2022 Power Partner on Inc. magazine’s inaugural list. Fish was also honored on Forbes’ first annual list of America’s Best PR Agencies in 2021 and has been recognized as a best place to work in the industry by Inc. magazine, PRWeek, PRovoke, and PRNEWS.

Fish is based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with operations in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Southern CA, Tampa, FL, Denver, CO, Houston, TX, New Jersey and London.

Trifactor is an inbound video marketing agency that creates strategic videos to power your company's growth and help it reach new heights.
Our mission is to help companies grow by merging creative design, digital and video across their entire business.

Hyperlocology enables franchise brands to centrally control local advertising, across the most powerful digital channels, for their hundreds or thousands of locations. Hyperlocology’s best-in-class technology includes automated local advertising campaign builder, location-level analytics, community data, and per-location insights to drive meaningful business outcomes.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is an 1,400 lawyer, international law firm with 31 offices world-wide, whose franchise lawyers are globally-recognized authorities, authors, speakers and advisory board members. Our clients range from start-up to Global 50 domestic and international franchising and distribution businesses that require sophisticated and complex legal support, including: antitrust counseling; regulatory compliance; litigation and arbitration; mergers and acquisitions; intellectual property protection, and more.

Placer.ai is the most advanced foot traffic analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success.

Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.

Specialized consulting practice with a focus on the betterment of society. Expertise working with nonprofit organizations to engage the franchise model, start-up concept development, and growth strategies for existing franchisors. Clients have included: IKEA, Snap-on Tools, Link Staffing, Safeguard Business Systems, Goodwill and YWCA.