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Corporate Reputation Management

Corporate reputation management online should be part of the marketing mix, why spend all the money on promoting your corporation only to be completely compromised because your online reputation is terrible.  So what is reputation management?  If you google your company name, brand or product and you don’t control the majority of the first page of the search result, then you are open for people to write negative things about you.

We look at corporate reputation management as not only protection but also a great way to interact with suppliers and customers.  Monitoring what’s going on with news, blogs, forums and social network sites can give a real feeling of what people are thinking and saying about you, which allows you to adapt your positioning accordingly and respond.

Interacting with suppliers and customers using channels like Facebook and Twitter can really show your corporation as forward  thinking, up to date and also closer to the ground.  It all boils down to people perception, so with the right strategy, reputation management cannot only protect you from adverse content on the net but also attract more customers.

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When best to tackle your Business Reputation Online

When a company comes to us after the negative content or bad press has reached the top of the search engines then normally the costs incurred increase dramatically.   There are 2 main reasons:

  1. By the time negative content has reached the first page of Google already, customers, suppliers and partners will have seen or been alerted to the bad press or content.
  2. Like calling out a plumber in the middle of the night, when a reputation management company has to deal with a crisis then it often means a lot more work is needed and again costs more to remove the negative content.

The best way to tackle your online reputation is to take pre-emptive measures, taking a pro active approach and adding content all the time keeping your social network sites up to date and monitoring possible negative stories and threats.  It’s critical to understand what’s involved to maintain a positive business reputation online.