The Franchise Playbook Won’t Save You: Why Local Growth Is On YOU
Spoiler alert: Corporate isn’t coming to rescue your slow sales.
In this episode of The Growth Hack: Franchise Marketing Unleashed, Marcus Slater (founder of AdCloud) and creative director Mckenzie rip the band-aid off a hard franchise truth: the HQ playbook might give you pretty posts and fancy logos, but it’s NOT a real growth strategy.
If you’re blindly posting what corporate sends and wondering why your books are still empty... you need to hear this.
🔥 What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why franchise marketing playbooks are a starting point, not a strategy
- How copy-paste content is killing your local reach
- The one thing Google (and your customers) hate about cookie-cutter sites
- How to actually localize your marketing without getting yelled at by brand police
- Why demographic data should dictate your marketing—not your personal opinion
- What to do today if you’re realizing that "waiting for corporate" isn’t a growth plan
Franchise ownership isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it game. Growth happens when you stop playing it safe and start owning your market like a boss.
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