2024 Annual Conference ‘Masterpiece’
Our franchise family recently gathered in beautiful sunny Orlando, Florida for our annual conference.
This year’s theme was… MASTERPIECE!
A work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
It is the unique talents, backgrounds, and abilities that each of our owners and employees bring to a school that goes into creating a Masterpiece for each and every parent that we serve with beautiful portraits.
Four days, we came together to learn & be inspired, improve our skills, recognize our achievements, and fellowship.
We kicked off the week with our top franchise earners for an all-inclusive relaxing hang out before conference began.
The highlight of our time together was a day spent together at Epcot, enjoying the Festival of Arts and a French dinner at Chefs de France!
Melissa Tash visited the park with us in spirit after her recent knee surgery.
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Learn & Be Inspired
We held sessions on Goal Setting, Strategies for Scaling Your Business, Creating Magic book discussions, New Software Rollouts, Tax Strategies, Adding Yearbook Sessions, Introduction to our Spring 24 Set, Remote Editing, Adding Magic with Holiday Sessions, Learning from our 250K Club Panel, Ideas for getting new accounts, Updated Headshots, and lots of conversations among friends and fellow franchise owners!
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Paint by Numbers Team Building Activity
One of our owner’s favorite activities each year, is the team building activity. We couldn’t have a Masterpiece themed conference without pulling out some paint! Not only is our personal chef, Kathryn Baggett, good at feeding us, but she is also an artist. She designed a painting – “Looking Through the Lens Sunset.” Each team chose 1 person who would be their painter, and then additional people who would get instructions to guide them in different learning styles. 1 person, “the eyes” got to see the final painting for 5 seconds, 2 people, “the ears” got to hear a vivid auditory description of the painting, and 2 people, “the hands” got to hear a step by step guided painting description and sketch a plan to guide their team. They had to work together to guide their painter to a completed painting as close to the original as possible. This activity brought fun, frustration, and key takeaways for everyone involved. We learned the importance of giving and receiving communication with our teams to make sure we all end up at the desired end result.
Of course, we always have to add an element of competitiveness to our team building activities and the Support Team choose the team who completed the painting as close to the original design.
The Purple team got the closest to the original painting design with all the elements in place.
Improve Our Skills
We spent time learning how to use our Spring set, Mon Ami. We truly strive to create a beautiful, authentic, portraits that will be cherished forever…. not just a school photo! One of the ways we refine our skills is through our print competition. We enlisted 3 esteemed judges, Rick Avalos, Jeff Johnson, and Shannon Squires-Toews to judge our work before we came together at conference. Their scores determined merits and category winners.
Here are the 1st place winners in each category… and see the slide show for all our award winning images!
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Recognize Achievements
Each year we recognize franchise owners who have performed well, contributed to their communities or have shown our core values to the upmost degree.
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The highest award that a franchise owner can be awarded is the Purple Crown Award. The Purple Crown Award is the highest accolade that we award one franchise owner each year who excels in all our core values from the previous year. This year’s recipients, our Katy, Texas owners, Joey and Sandi Fotheringham.
Congratulations Joey and Sandi and Team! We applaud you for:
- Advocacy – seeking ways to serve your community: You continually partner with the Judah Brown Project to bring awareness to childhood pool safety.
- Excellence – providing exceptional quality portraits and great customer service: You earned many of our highest scores in print competition and walked the extra mile with your customers!
- Respect – always showing concern and dignity for your customers and franchise family.
- Legacy – operating your business to strengthen your commitment to family and community: You increased your annual sales by 41% and created more jobs!
This coveted award has been held in the hands of Elizabeth Bailey, Will Smith, Heather Sams, Christine Mamon and Patricia Mesi, and Scott and Kara Kellner.
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Celebration
This year Spoiled Rotten Photography celebrates its 21 year Anniversary since this boutique preschool photography business began in Huntsville, AL. When Melissa Tash discovered she could make a living for her family focusing solely on photographing preschoolers she knew she had to share this concept with other families and the franchise was birthed 10 years later.
Many of our owners stayed an extra day to be able to enjoy a day together at the Magic Kingdom Park!
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Fellowship
Do you love your work family? I do! It is an amazing blessing to work with people who you not only share your core values with, but you genuinely, LOVE! It is an honor to serve them and do life with them! Here is our annual group portrait in our house before our awards dinner at Cafe Tu Tu Tango.
Welcoming New Owners
We meet monthly on a zoom call, but we had lots of new family members to meet face to face and hug.
Welcome to our newest owners… Alleigh Gonah (Gilbert, AZ), Karla Gadea & Marius Mapp (Tallahassee, FL), Brittany Evans (Mansfield, TX) Aubrie & Peter Cook (Prosper/Lewisville, TX), and Linda Sirmans (Cary, NC)
2023 was an amazing year! I am blessed to be a part of this organization honored to serve our franchise owners.
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Do them a favor… it could be life changing for them!
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