APRIL 23RD, 201904-21-2019: FRANCHISING A BUSINESS WITH FOUNDER OF TAPINTO.NET, MIKE SHAPIRO, EPISODE #34

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Our featured guest for Sunday, April 21st is Mike Shapiro

Michael Shapiro is a hyperlocal media expert, news entrepreneur and attorney. He owns and operates TAPinto.net, a network of more than 75 all-online hyperlocal news franchises in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Florida, with more than 8,000,000 readers during the past year. Each site is franchised to a local owner/publisher and provides original objective daily local news reporting. Current franchisees include business executives, public relations professionals, journalists, hardcopy newspapers, nonprofits and universities. TAPinto.net was founded in October, 2008 by Michael and Lauryn Shapiro, who sought to provide their town’s residents with an all-online, objective, independent, daily local newspaper. 
You can visit his website at www.TapInto.net 

Visit the pitch presenters for April 21st at their websites:

 
Susannah Bailin with Advice Coach, an App for patients to help them remember what matters: how to recover at home using prescribed exercises and when to go back to see the doctor, at https://advicecoach.com/


Reed Benet with HeroHomes, a company dedicated to helping VAs build financial security by using their VA mortgage benefit to purchase multi-family properties they can provide for their own families and to help others as well at http://www.herohomes.com

Omid Esmaili with College Foundry, offering classes, speaking events, and one-on-one consulting for students to understand how to get the most use out of their college years, to maximize opportunities and to make the most of their investment, at https://collegefoundry.com/.