796: Zack Oates CEO of Ovation Text Message Marketing Workshop

Restaurant Unstoppable with Eric Cacciatore

With Excitement Allow me to introduce to you today's guest, Founder and CEO of Ovation, Zack Oates. Zack Oates is an author, husband, father, entrepreneur, and hot tub aficionado (but not in that order, necessarily). He was voted Top 100 Entrepreneurs, rang the NASDAQ bell, won the world’s biggest business competition, and started 3 companies. He went on over 1,000 dates before he got married and wrote a book, Dating Never Works...Until it Does. He currently is Founder and CEO of Ovation, an actionable guest feedback platform for restaurants that specializes in text communication.

Check out episode 774 with Bruce Irving as mentioned in today's workshop.

Check out episode 793 with Rory Balkin as mentioned in today's workshop.

Check out episode 763 with David Scott Peters as mentioned in today's workshop.

Check out Bbot as mentioned in today's episode.

"Don't find out about [guest complaints] on yelp or google, resolve it in real time with that text conversation."

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Favorite success quote or mantra:

• "Choose to live an extraordinary life because an ordinary life is always waiting for you."

In today's workshop with Zack Oates we will discuss:

• Why texting?
• How to stay compliant
• What should the text say?
• When to send it?
• How to track ROI?
• How to build a database?
• What are other ways to use texting?
• what services do you recommend if they are quite ready for ovatoin
• What systems for consistency

Sponsors

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