An executive briefing for service franchisors · Hosted by Gerson Advisory Services
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Free executive briefing · For service franchisors

Why AI won’t recommend your franchise network.

Customers are searching inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews — and asking AI to request pricing on their behalf. For multi-unit service franchises, this isn’t a single-location problem. It’s a network-wide visibility crisis playing out across every one of your locations at once.

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Live
Date
Wednesday
June 10, 2026
Time
11:00 AM CDT
12:00 PM EDT
Length
60 minutes
+ live Q&A
Who this is for
Built for Presidents, CMOs and Brand Leaders running service franchise systems with 20+ locations — home services, cleaning, repair, restoration, automotive, pet care, lawn & outdoor, fitness, and beyond.
You'll get value if
Your franchisees rely on local search and review sites for lead flow.
You'll get value if
AI search has come up in a board meeting and you don’t have a clear answer yet.
You'll get value if
You’re asking how a network-wide response is different from a single-location one.
What we’ll cover

Four things every franchise executive should understand before the next 12 months.

01

The five shifts quietly killing lead flow across multi-location systems

02

How AI decides which franchise brands to recommend — and which to skip entirely

03

Why pricing transparency at the location level is now a brand-level trust signal

04

What Google’s “Have AI get prices” feature means for your franchisees — and your royalty base

Your hosts

A peer-level conversation between two voices franchise leaders already trust.

Facilitator
Keith Gerson
Keith Gerson, CFE
President & CEO, Gerson Advisory Services
Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Franchise Consortium

Author and franchise executive with 52 years of franchising expertise. Former President of FranConnect. Has advised hundreds of franchise systems on growth, technology and franchisee performance.

Hosts this conversation as a peer to franchise executives — not a vendor.

52 yrs in franchising Former Pres, FranConnect CFE
Guest Panelist
Marcus Sheridan
Marcus Sheridan
Author of They Ask, You Answer
Founder & CEO, Priceguide.ai

One of the most in-demand keynote speakers in business today, Marcus has trained tens of thousands of companies on the future of buyer behaviour.

His book They Ask, You Answer is taught in business schools worldwide. He famously turned a struggling pool company into the most-trafficked pool website on the planet — using transparency as a growth strategy.

Today, Priceguide.ai does the same for service franchise networks at scale: making every location readable, trustworthy, and recommendable by AI search.

They Ask, You Answer Forbes contributor Top 50 keynote speakers Inc. 5000 alum

Sixty minutes that could change how your entire network gets found.

Free to attend. Replay link sent to every registrant. Built specifically for service franchise leaders running 20+ locations.