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Zack Oates of Ovation on Building Business Connections through Digital Storytelling
Soliciting feedback from customers often seems like a daunting task. However, Zack Oates and his team at Ovation have cracked the code with a proven strategy that not only encourages guest feedback, but also establishes a personal connection for exceptional results.Zack Oates and the guest feedback platform Ovation have taken a radically different approach to hearing from customers, which stems…
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3 Practices Every Business Can Learn from Restaurants
In my early years, I spent a decade in the restaurant business — owning several places and dealing with every challenge you can imagine. If I've learned anything from my time in the restaurant industry, it's how to stay sharp, pivot fast and manage chaos calmly.Years later, as a tech…
What To Do When Your Marketing Efforts Keeping Failing
Marketers plan the high-level vision, messaging and execution of their campaigns in excruciating detail, aspiring to generate a meaningful return on investment (ROI). Unfortunately, marketing campaigns don't always go this way.How do you handle failing marketing campaigns? And what should you do next?Related: 6 Founders Share the Goal-Setting Traps That…
R House Wynwood: A Success Story of Customer Feedback
Nestled in the heart of Miami, R House Wynwood puts on a drag brunch that's so entertaining you'll applaud, dance and laugh throughout the entire meal. Not only that, you'll love the food just as much as the entertainment. Owners Owen Bale and Rocco Carulli pride themselves on creating high-quality…
4 Ways I Grew My Business From Startup to 17 Years of Sustained Success
Over the past three or four years, startups and small businesses have confronted unique challenges like the lingering effects of the pandemic, fluctuating inflation rates and global supply chain disruptions. Surviving, much less thriving, has required herculean effort and resilience. As we head into the last quarter of the year,…
Outrank Competitors in Your Niche with These SEO Tweaks
Niche marketing is challenging for a variety of reasons. It may be highly competitive since you are competing for a small subset of consumers. It is also highly specialized, which can make traditional SEO techniques less effective. High rankings in general searches may look like an SEO success, but if…
How AI-Driven Personalization Is Transforming the Retail Industry
Americans love to shop — so much so that NPR devoted an episode of its "Consider This" program to the country's shopping culture during the second year of the pandemic. But while just a couple of decades ago, shopping meant a trip to the mall, much of the activity has…
3 Reasons to Build a Team-Empowered Company for Business Growth
When you're ready to scale a business, leadership must move from a founder-led model to a team-empowered approach. A company that empowers its team comprises each team member completely committed to the organization's goals and objectives and fosters growth autonomously from the owner, founder or CEO.This setup is vital for…
Why the Best Time to Sell Your Business Is When You Least Expect It
Many small business owners wonder how they can expand while keeping the quality of their work high. Regardless of the type of company you have — whether it's service-based or product-based — you need to follow a few fundamental steps.It's possible to start a company without these things but not…
4 Secrets to Building a Team That Can Handle Anything
I once thought that the key to an efficient workflow was to hire the best people for the job. A new generation of talented, value-oriented and full-of-potential employees and business partners appeared to be the perfect recipe for success. However, I discovered that even with such a great team, I…
Employees Are Frustrated By These Toxic Behaviors
Salary dissatisfaction, lack of appreciation and poor work-life balance are corporate America's top frustrations — according to the nation's HR pros.A new survey of 1,000 human resource professionals revealed the biggest challenges facing the workforce today, along with the pain points HR problem-solvers are feeling in their departments.Twenty-nine percent of…
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