With the penetration of the internet in millions of homes around the world, maintaining your online reputation has become very vital for the companies. It has now become very easy to make your opinion heard with the help of the internet. It takes a lot of hard work and patience to build the reputation of a company with the current and also the potential customers of a particular company. This reputation can be tarnished when there is a negative feedback from any customer. It can also increase with a positive feedback from a client. Clients can express their opinion through social media or through writing in various blogs. This can go a long way in making your image or breaking your image. Managing the online reputation is therefore managing the positive as well as the negative comments and helping them to build a strong online presence.
Best practices of online reputation management
There are rival companies which may try to harm your good image in the long run. There is no such fixed way of countering such problems. What one company can do is to have a good image from beforehand or try and create one. The creation of the reputation online will ensure that your brand online is kept untouched by your rivals.
Responding actively to the queries both online and offline will help in rendering good customer service to the people. This will help in building rapport with the customers. Often clients complain that the companies do not respond to their phone calls. This can be harmful for the image of the company. One should avoid this and try to create a good rapport with the clients. Answering the questions judiciously and intelligently will help the clients to form good opinion about your company and will be helpful for your reputation both online and offline.
It is always better to have your company policies incorporated in the website beforehand so that the clients cannot complain later on about your products or services. The customers should next be encouraged to provide you feedback and comments so that you can better your customer care service. This will help in winning over the customers and they will be giving positive reviews online. These positive reviews will be beneficial for the company. One should always ask the client to post the review on the company website so that it will be authentic and will be a good answer to the rivals.
Regular monitoring is crucial
One should always monitor the social media accounts and check for any adverse comments that have been posted about the company on this site. There may be people who will be waiting for the slightest opportunity to harm the image of your company. One should be aware of such people.
For every kind of business a good reputation means a steady flow of customers and an increase in revenue. Therefore maintain the online reputation effectively for your company and help it to grow by leaps and bounds.
online reputation is as important as offilne ! u explained in very good way
Thanks Paul we should always monitor our off line reputation as much as we manage our online reputation thanks for your comments
Your online reputation defines who you are are what products and services you are engage with. The good name of a company or a service provider is able to sell more products than what you can actually do by campaigning.
Thanks for taking the time to add your voice to the debate here Managing your online reputation is something we need to pay detailed attention to as it can make or break your business both online or offline
Positive or bad feebacks are important because it helps to provide a better customer service. U just mentioned it regular monitoring is crucial. Thank you!
You’re right, a company’s online reputation can definitely make or break a business. When an issue arises, it’s important to fix it and let your customers/users know that you’ve sorted it out or are at least aware of the situation. People like to know that they’re being listened to, and that a real person is behind a website, business, etc. Showing people you care will earn you a positive reputation which usually results in new customers.
Thanks for sharing!
Congrats Gary for your new e-book 🙂 will have a look soon.
Thanks for the support this is my second e-book but the first one i am offering for sale i do hope it goes well
I think online presence can set you at top if you have some measures.it also tells that what type of brands you have and what type of service you provides.
The regular monitoring is where most people lose it from my point of view – everyone always start like lightning and thunder, but after a while there’s to far inbetween the work being done. I recommend people to go find someone doing the work for them when they start losing the interest themselves.
Kind Regards
Mads
Hi Gary,
Yes – I agree. Regular monitoring and reporting is one of the most if not the most important part of ORM. And people tend to think that ORM is only used to combat the negative mentions etc. when in fact it allows for so much more when it comes to positive mentions and engagement to build a larger community and or business base as well as a overall positive sentiment about your business and or brand.
Removing information from Google is nigh on impossible. Controlling information is a systematic and time consuming effort. Corporate reputation management needs to be handled by a professional.
Online reputation management includes monitoring all those activities, which are related to your products, brand and business, and if you see any negative post then it should be removed or suppressed using ORM techniques.