Eric Wheeler Email & Phone Number

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

As the Vice President of Franchise Recruitment at Franchise Opportunity Consultants, I am at the forefront of strategic initiatives aimed at fostering the growth and success of our clients' franchise systems. My role encompasses the development and execution of comprehensive recruitment strategies designed to attract qualified franchisees from a variety of industries. This involves identifying target markets, refining recruitment efforts, and nurturing strong relationships with prospective franchisees to ensure a steady stream of high-quality candidates. I am responsible for establishing clear objectives and ensuring accountability while promoting a culture of excellence. In collaboration with cross-functional teams, I ensure that recruitment efforts are aligned with our broader business goals, offering insights that improve marketing materials and tools. As each brand’s definition of success varies it is imperative to understand and clearly articulate realistic expectations while being willing to adjust and implement change when necessary. My passion and desire to see each brand, we partner with, achieve their goals drives me to stay abreast of both what competitors are doing and industry trends. Doing so allows me to pivot and adapt our strategies to be the best in the industry.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

• Lead and execute franchise growth strategy for Just Love Coffee Cafe, by raising brand recognition through various mediums.• Promote the JLC Brand while demonstrating strong ability to make sound decisions and continuously balancing multiple priorities, in a fast-paced environment.• Participate in Franchise Development marketing activities and implementation of strategies to meet/exceed goals for brand growth.• Utilize and build relationships, with industry specific contacts, to cast a wider net and attract the right Franchisees.• Identify and qualify prospective Franchisees, while building solid relationships and taking them through the sales process; always with the goal of finding the “right fit” for both the brand and candidate.• Educate prospective franchisees of what to expect during the process of on-boarding. Ensure that every-step is outlined and understood including but not limited to: training, operations, marketing, branding, costs, FDD etc.• Work closely to support our Broker relationships and ensure that their Territory checks are responded to in a timely fashion and that their candidates receive optimal care, throughout the process.• Keep an open line of communication with Franchisees to ensure strong on-going relationships, both prior to and post signing the FA. • Provide insight/direction to candidates regarding Real Estate locations, conduct a pre-liminary area analysis, and identify prospective “hot” sites.

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

Overview: The Community Paper is a hyper-local marketing publication! Our readers are affluent, mobile, and interested in knowing about their communities and supporting local businesses that do the same. We are focused on helping small to medium sized organizations gain market share by getting their information into the hands of their future customers. We do this by providing:- Category Exclusivity- Always Being Available- Providing Both Market Saturation and Market Penetration- Having High Engagement- Frequency ~ resulting in Top of Mind Awareness- Having a Positive Message- Setting our Advertisers up as "The Expert"- Providing "Active Advertising"Responsibilities:- Design, develop and implement marketing strategies for each Community.- Spearhead Sales and Business Development- Supports, Coaches, Leads Regional Directors to ensure that each Community Paper exceeds Sales goals and Market penetration in their region.- Supervises, trains and manages the sales and marketing team's performance to ensure that sales and marketing goals are achieved.- Creates, builds, and maintains excellent relationships with both area and regional agencies to generate referrals.- Oversees distribution point relations as well as schedule deliveries.- Assists with content for publication.- Assists with Advertiser artwork development.- Stays involved locally and abroad, in regards to events, trade shows, Chamber meetings, etc.

Treatment SpecialistResponsible for hitting personal sales goals and working with others on my team to achieve the company’s monthly quota. Responsible for qualifying potential prospects, identifying and overcoming objections, working with both company generated and self generated leads. Over time I’ve built relationships with both Independent Referral Sources and Business Development Referral Sources by exceeding expectations in regards to communication and by providing unsurpassed response time, which ultimately lead to my being able to streamline the admissions process.Assistant Manager / Team Associate / TrainerMy ability to organize and implement systems to track leads through the sales process, while ensuring proper follow-up lead to my being promoted to Assistant Manager (Team Associate by title) after 5 months of employment. In this capacity I have been constantly moved around, in the Assistant Manager position, to teams that are historically not meeting their goals, in order to help encourage team members, support them through the learning curve, close cases that need some extra care, step in as Manager when needed, continue to meet my personal quota and grow and develop new hires as well as tenured staff that weren’t meeting expectations.

I served as the Youth Director of Torch Student Ministries at Generations Church for almost 10 years, as a volunteer. I have been involved in Youth ministry ever since being trained at Bethany World Prayer Center, under Pastor Larry Stockstill, in their 220i internship program 07'-08'.

Director of Sales and MarketingAs the Director of both the Sales and Marketing divisions I was responsible for both the operational and strategic planning of the organization. It was my job not only to build trust and maintain relationships with those sending us leads, our referral partners, but also to oversee the processing of clients through our system. This organic growth was instrumental in our daily success as a company and was only possible through building strong, long term relationships.Commercial Finance Advisor - Accelerate Commercial Capital DivisionWhile in the community, Networking for the Credit Repair division, I often ran across business owners who were in need of working capital in order to accomplish either a short, or long term goal. I was able to assist business owners through the application process and work to find a product that fit their needs.Summary:B2B - Generate strategic partnerships with Financial Institutions, Mortgage Companies, and Real Estate Brokers, by assisting them in creating a pipeline from clients whom they currently cannot do business with, due to a poor Credit Score.B2C - Through our proprietary technology and positioning ourselves as the consumer's advocate to the Bureaus, we have been able to improve our clients lives. That is, after our work is complete and an individual's credit has been repaired, an indirect result is often: being able to get approved for a mortgage, lower insurance rates, being able to apply for new credit lines, being able to save more money, etc.

Strategic Alliance Manager: Establish new, long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with both Financial Institutions and Retail Chains, by utilizing First Regent's current ATM footprint for the purpose of increasing foot-traffic via branding.Account Manager: Generate leads for the acquisition of new clientele and continue to build relationships with current patrons. Primarily concerned with the sales, placement, and branding of ATMs.

Houston, Texas, Us

The "Shack" as we called it was a great place to grow. We regularly had to dance for our guests, which made for a humbling experience. I was promoted after two months to a trainer position as I was able to help create a more exciting work environment and build relationships with the people who came in as guests as well as my co-workers.

I was a delivery and set-up professional at Villag Furniture Galleries. I operated the store's cube van, overseeing and assisting in the delivery and set-up of new furniture orders. I left the company to take a position closer to home. I began working at this company one week after I graduated High School.

Bachelors, Business Management And Ethics

Associates Of Science, Emphasis In Business

Youth Ministry Certification, Young Minister Certification