A Thanksgiving Reflection From Our Team to Yours - 2025

As we enter Thanksgiving week—a time for family, friends, colleagues, and the comforting traditions of turkey, ham, roast beef, and gathering around the table—I’ve been reflecting on what gratitude truly means in our work and in our lives.

At FranchisePressReleases.com and throughout the FranchiseMarketingSolutions.com Network, we feel genuinely privileged and blessed to serve this incredible industry each day. We support thousands of franchisors, aspiring franchise owners, emerging brands, and franchise systems that are serving their communities and scaling to touch even more lives. We are also deeply grateful for the franchise brokers who help guide people into the right opportunities and the financial institutions that work tirelessly to make entrepreneurship accessible and achievable for so many.

We’re equally thankful for the dedicated PR firms and partners who entrust us to help amplify their clients’ voices in a noisy, competitive world. Their passion for storytelling inspires us constantly.

It would take an entire website to thank everyone individually—and even then, we wouldn’t fit them all—but there are a few leaders who deserve special acknowledgment:

• Mark Goddard at Slice Nation Pizza Co.

• Neil Porras & Taina Porras at Medloft Spa

• Justin Kaiser at Empire Franchising and Stardust Solar

• Nick Herrera at Celebrity CMO and Empire Franchising

And I want to highlight Sherman Adkins and Tarsha Adkins of Recognizing Children’s Gifts Behavioral Health Network. The work they and their team do each day to support children and families is extraordinary, and we are honored to share their story and mission with a wider audience.

I also want to thank our own thought leaders, creatives, strategists, and support teams. Each of you brings talent, vision, and heart to the work of helping prospective franchisees discover the right opportunity and take steps toward living their best life. Your dedication makes an impact far beyond what we see day to day.

Finally, we’re encouraged by the business-conscious direction of the current administration. Seeing a renewed national focus on supporting entrepreneurship and small business creation gives people across the country more pathways to ownership, stability, and economic confidence—all values deeply aligned with our mission.

As CEO, I want to express my sincere gratitude. Thank you for the relationships, the trust, the collaboration, and the shared belief in the power of franchising to change lives.

From my family and the entire Franchise Marketing Solutions Network to you and yours:
Happy Thanksgiving. May this week be filled with warmth, gratitude, and the joy of what we’ve built together—and what’s still ahead.

— Mark Milburn
CEO, Franchise Marketing Solutions Network