Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Planned downtime tonight from 3am to 5am ET

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

It is our goal to provide you with consistently reliable and secure access to Hoot Ratings Business Partner pages. This means, however, that at times, our Web site will be unavailable so that we may conduct routine system maintenance and upgrades. Guess what? Tonight is one of those nights.

In an effort to allow us to continually improve our online technology resources, while minimizing disruptions to you, we have scheduled time for system maintenance at 3am ET tonight. During this time period, online services will not be available for use, but your customers can still be sending Hoots. No feedback will be lost! This schedule was chosen as it coincides with our lowest usage times for online services. The site should be operational quickly but we have budgeted two hours in case we find any annoying little bugs.

Hootie System Maintenance

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Just a friendly reminder to following @HootRatings on twitter and fan us at Hoot Ratings on Facebook.

Learn about Hoot Ratings…watch the video

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Have you seen the new Hoot Ratings video. The short video explains how Hoot Ratings can increase profits, motivate employees and provide a business owner with peace of mind that their business is running smoothly at all times.

Hoot Ratings launches Rate My Service SMS number 858-598-HOOT

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Hoot Ratings was hatched with the vision to make radical improvements to customer feedback. With the simple idea of creating a better way to communicate, our mission is to become the trusted partner of consumers and business owners for the private exchange of customer feedback. Our signature Rate My Service offering was launched with our toll free voice number 888-898-HOOT and now we have added our mobile text number 858-598-HOOT. Consumers can now text comments to our Rate My Service SMS number to deliver feedback to any business at anytime.

Rate the service for any business at anytime

Rate the service for any business at anytime

Put the Rate My Service contact details in your phone:
-  1-888-898-HOOT (4668)  toll free voice
-  1-858-598-HOOT (4668) mobile text
-  hoot@hootratings.com

By calling 1-888-898-4668 (1-888-898-HOOT), texting 1-858-598-4668 (1-858-598-HOOT), or emailing hoot@hootratings.com a person can “Rate My Service” for any business at any time. Any store, restaurant, hotel, doctor, movie theater, gas station, bank or any other place where you may find yourself receiving an excellent or disappointing service experience, we can take your feedback.  Just leave a comment, along with the business name and location, and Hoot Ratings will contact the business owner and let them know that we received feedback on her or his business. Everyone’s identity and feedback always remains confidential.

We have kept it simple, so that if we all give a hoot, we really can improve our customer service experiences, our daily interactions and our lives in general.

Hoot Ratings Gear

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Everybody loves Hootie. If you are looking to sport the coolest owl gear around you can get it at the Hoot Ratings Online Store. There is something for everyone, even Fido (Hootie loves dogs).

Dogs love Hootie

Dogs love Hootie

We appreciate everyone flashing the Hoot Ratings brand. We are creating some programs to reward our best Hooties (those of you using the Rate My Service number 1-888-898-HOOT (4668)) with some free gear. Stay tuned for the promotion.

Please let us know if there is anything in particular you would like to see added to the store and we will make it happen.  We have shirts and stuff with all the hootie characters below.

Tiny Hooties

Tiny Hooties

Announcing the Hoot Ratings Platinum Program

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Today we are announcing the launch of the Hoot Ratings Platinum Program, expanding our fast growing Rate My Service program.

Platinum Program

Platinum Program


Hoot Ratings was hatched with the goal of providing a simple and private feedback channel between consumers and business owners. Our success is a result of our ability to help businesses deliver excellent service to every customer and to give consumers a simple outlet for communication for expressing feedback. We are excited to be giving our business partners the added value of the Hoot Ratings Platinum Program.

Rate My Service is the signature program of Hoot Ratings.

Rate My Service

Rate My Service


The Rate My Service program at Hoot Ratings is the customer-centric solution for collecting feedback. By calling the Rate My Service number, 1-888-898-HOOT (4668), consumers can leave feedback, called a “Hoot”, on any business at any time. We keep all feedback confidential, deliver it directly to the business owner and provide an anonymous channel for consumer and business owner to exchange additional information.

The Hoot Ratings Platinum Program is a premium service taking the Rate My Service program to the next level.

The Platinum Program delivers additional services to business owners to maximize the value of customer feedback. Owners receive all the value of the Rate My Service program, plus monthly reporting, marketing materials, best practices and unlimited Hoots delivered directly via email. Owners are also invited to join the Platinum Partner Forum (PPF), our members-only portal, where business owners and industry experts can confidentially share strategies for optimizing the customer service experience. The Hoot Ratings Platinum Program provides peace of mind that there is a system in place to immediately identify customer-related problems and make sure a business is operating effectively.