2019 Rent The Chicken Owners Conference

The main goal of our recent workation to Florida and back was to prepare for our upcoming 2019 Rent The Chicken Owners Conference. We hammered out about 90% of the details while away including an itinerary, detailed schedule, PowerPoint presentations for each session, team building exercises, ice breakers, restaurant for dinner, and more! Pictured to the right was Homestead Phil's make shift work station.

Fast forward nine days after returning home from workation and we were off to Erie, PA for the Owners Conference! We arrived a day before almost everyone else. It was not a religious Conference but we hosted the Conference at the Benedictine Sisters of Erie's Monastery. They have a great meeting space with living room furniture and hotel-like room accommodations PLUS a staff who makes meals for the sisters! So we paid a fee for the room, for the bedrooms, and for the meals. EASY! Well.. until the snow started piling up :) We are thankful that everyone who registered attended and no one got snowed in while at the Conference!

We had 20 attend including Homestead Phil and I! It was our biggest Conference to date! One of our new Affiliates attended and at the end of the Conference said "I had no idea how you guys were going to talk about chickens for 12 hours over the course of two days... but you did it! And kept it interesting!" haha

We discussed 2018 Year in Review followed by presenting our 2018 Top Performer award to Homestead Kate who serves Toronto & South-Central Ontario with Rent The Chicken and Hatch The Chicken.

We awarded Homestead Monica and Randy in Indianapolis with Most Improved as they quadrupled their rentals from 2017 to 2018!

We also honored Homestead Fletcher, Homestead Kate's son, as the youngest attendee and this was his 3rd Conference. Homestead RayLee was honored for her commitment to supplying photos for us to use on social media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and now Snapchat!

Our vendor partners and organizations provided fantastic giveaways. Some provided enough for everyone to have one and others gave a bigger donation so we raffled those off to all who attended. From there we had sessions on operating individual Rent The Chicken locations, marketing, time management, and accomplishing tasks now with long-term in mind.

And we were introduced to some fun games... Has anyone played Exploding Kittens?? What a hoot!

It's safe to say that we all came away exhausted and overloaded with information but inspired to make 2019 the best year yet!