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Location3 Provides A number of Franchise Advertising Veterans to Workers, Optimizes MarTech Stack

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The leading franchise marketing agency continues to expand with a view to significant sales growth.

DENVER, 17th August 2021 / PRNewswire / – Location3, the digital agency known for delivering business strategies with local activation, continued its impressive growth trend by adding three seasoned franchise marketing managers to its emerging team. Ted Asbury (formerly Arby’s, The Honey Baked Ham Company, Lynx Franchising) is Executive VP of Franchise Strategy, Vera Shafiq (formerly College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving) has joined as Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Drue Townsend (formerly FASTSIGNS International, Brice Foods) acts as a franchise brand strategist in a partial function. The trio of newcomers brings together over 50 years of franchising experience to an agency that has been successful in franchise marketing for hundreds of multi-unit brands and thousands of franchisees since 2008.

The hiring shift also coincides with significant advances made in the agency’s local marketing software, LOCALACT, over the past 18 months, with several new feature releases for current users and improved technology integration in the backend. Despite a variety of marketing, operational, and economic challenges franchisors and franchisees faced during the pandemic, LOCALACT continues to see strong growth in both customer retention and monthly recurring revenue, making Location3 a leader in the franchise category -Marketing positioned.

“We are incredibly excited that Ted, Vera and Drue can join our team and bring their extensive franchise experience into the future,” said the Managing Director of Location3, Crystal ware. “With their first-hand knowledge of our industry and target market and the continued investments we are making in our LOCALACT technology stacks, we are confident that we will grow sustainably in the months and years to come.” Ware himself was also recently promoted to Managing Director and will take on a larger role in developing Location3’s strategic roadmap for the next five years and beyond.

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Location3 manages corporate and local digital marketing programs for multi-unit brands in categories such as retail, restaurants, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, service companies, and more. To learn more, visit Location3.com today.

About Location3
Location3 is the digital agency that delivers corporate strategy with local activation. Founded in 1999, we are the strategic marketing partner of the world’s best-known multi-unit brands and franchise systems. Our local marketing platform LOCALACT gives franchisees and local business owners the tools they need to advertise online and understand marketing performance. Our “People + Platform” philosophy uses both internal strategic experts and first-class technology to achieve maximum efficiency in digital marketing. For press inquiries, please contact Joshua Allen ([email protected]).

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