Social Geek New Year's Special 2025

Happy New Year, Geeks! Welcome to Season 16 of the Social Geek podcast. It’s our New Year’s Special with an all-star guest list of prominent Franchising professionals sharing trends they are seeing for 2025 along with their plans, goals, and resolutions for the new year. Pour yourself a hot coffee, Mimosa, or Bloody Mary and join in the conversations with Matt Haller, Brandi Kloostra, Kirk Allen, Rebecca Wright, Jerry Akers, Megan Center, Heather McLeod; Amanda Dempsey, Kelli Schroeder, Kristen Pechacek, Scott Greenberg, Ali Kraus, Derrick Ableman, and Danielle Wright joining host Jack Monson These thought leaders cover many ideas including the likely end of economic uncertainty, AI decision-making and practical uses, drones, X-Mail, Elon Musk, aliens, mentorship, IFA’s Franship, private equity investment in smaller brands and suppliers, being intentional, rising costs of acquisition for marketers, 1st party data, personas, short form videos, nano influencer marketing, the growth of franchise coaches, resales, Boomer retirement, sexy businesses, hyper-personalization, and of course IFA 2025 #francon. Whew! Cheers to a BIG 2025 to all our sponsors & partners including Northeast Color, Hughes, Citrin Cooperman, and Franzy. Thanks for your continued support. And thanks to YOU for joining us and staying connect on the Social Geek Radio Network.Special Guests: Ali Kraus, Amanda Dempsey, Brandi Kloostra, Danielle Wright, Derrick Ableman, Heather McLeod, Jerry Akers, Kelli Schroeder, Kirk Allen, Kristen Pechacek, Matt Haller, Megan Center, Rebecca Wright, and Scott Greenberg.