Social Geek
Social Geek
Podcast Description
Hello Geeks. Join Jack Monson and top marketing thought leaders and franchise executives for weekly Rock Star roundtables on hot topics and trends.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on several key themes such as franchising strategies, marketing innovation, international development, and mentorship. Recent episodes delve into topics like multi-unit growth strategies, the impact of AI on franchises, and the upcoming IFA 2025 event, featuring insights from professionals on storytelling in franchising and evolving customer demographics.

Hello Geeks. Join Jack Monson and top marketing thought leaders and franchise executives for weekly Rock Star roundtables on hot topics and trends.
It doesn’t matter what you do with AI.
There…I said it. Come and get me, snake oil salesman.
What DOES matter is what your candidates and customers do with AI and how they’re finding you.
It’s the Marketing & Innovation Update for October on the most popular franchise podcast, Social Geek!
Patti Rother, Founder and CEO of Root + Rise, is here to help Fran Dev pros feed the Large Language Models with answers for their brands.
We’ll cover:
Why Reddit is now so important and how you can get started
Using Wikipedia as your guide to sharing your facts and data
Other places to share your brand’s unified messaging to gain authority
How video content is currently feeding answers
Why PR and earned media are more critical than ever
Shout outs to our all-star team members Jacqui Blair, Islam Tawfik, Willem van Daalen, Madison Leavy, Grace Gorman, and Jason Weaver.
Next, I’ll chat with Jeffrey Leach of Vendasta to dive into AI for local franchisee marketing.
Jeff shares the results from Vendasta’s new study of 20 franchise brands looking at their franchisees’ local AI marketing services. There are some amazing conversions via web chats, SMS conversations, and booking services.
Connect with Jeff to learn more about the survey results.
Thanks to Northeast Color, Hughes, and Thunderly ⚡
Special Guests: Jeff Leach and Patti Rother.

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