In today’s most competitive business realm, it takes a lot to have someone put on a word for you,because without marketing no one is going to take notice of you and your business will stay dormant and rot away eventually. But in today’s realm most of the marketing that occurs does not happens in the realm of the real, but in the virtual. Yes, that’s right one has to be cyber smart to realise their true potential in the competitive business world. Well, often your company may not have the necessary resources to implement a successful marketing campaign, that’s why you need to seek the help of digital marketing services.
These services often involve the publishing of relevant content in reputed article directories and publishing sites that have a large readership base. They are well-established and have acquired, over time, devoted fans and a scrupulous reputation. To get your particular content published in these firms, you require a certain reputational background. In several cases, a particularly damning thing that will be the basis of refusal is the feedback that you have received relative to your brand. What everyone says about you in the public sphere will affect your reputation and if it’s not so good then the publishing firm may not partner up because they will think that forming an association with your firm will not be for the good of their company.
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“You better be careful of what you do online, because gossip travels
faster in there.”[/caption]
So, my friend you need to put up a pretty picture of yourself and get those likes if you ever want your article in that famous website. There are many things to take into account, based on which there are even more things you should do. Once you’ve done them, your website will have gained a brighter spot in the hearts and minds of the people, so much so that they will feel like pouring out their admiration on to you site:
Online testimonials play a crucial role in building trust with the new customers who may
want to visit your site. They will read your website, go through its content, check the services and would start forming an opinion about it soon. But there is always a section
where they will see to that there is a positive stance. Studies have shown that there is a
greater conversion if people see testimonials of others with their quote and photo. It has
also revealed that the way the website is designed and where the testimonials page is
located also influences the conversion rate.
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“No matter what you do, the customer always have the final word"[/caption]
Increase your reputation by asking people who’ve purchased your items to post their feedback on your website. Their feedback will vary, but if you’re confident about your business there will be a greater proportion of good reviews than the bad ones. Request them to take their photos and your designers to properly place, ideally nearby the product details, so that the viewers will feel that the thing/service that they are about to purchase is of authentic quality.
- Social Media and Business Listings
Studies show that businesses who have their social media presence constantly updated and
rapidly responded is shown to have a 100 % greater advantage in relation to the outbound
brands who rely on much traditional methods of doing their business.
Your reputation is influenced by the interaction you maintain with the online customer base.
This is a great opportunity for building brand loyalty, as you can directly communicate with
the prospective customers and earn their trust.
This will work wonders in the long run, because they feel that the firm has started to
become a part of the community instead of just being a non-empathetic, profit mongering
capitalist firm. This will result in enthusiastic responses by them in the form of testimonials, not only on your page but on the other ones as well.
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“Get your footprint in all the possible social media outlets as you
can.”[/caption]
And, of course, if you need to have more attraction, first you have to let them know that your business is available i.e., it has to be more visible. The visibility of your company
can be made more conspicuous by having it indexed in several directories around the internet, local listings which index the companies in your specific region.
Just like how people in the real world would look at the yellow pages to know about the existence of a certain person or company, people in the virtual world often look into online directories for references that may reward with the thing which they were initially looking for.
- Employee Reviews and Customer Reviews
Having your previous employees or even the current ones do a small review online will makes your business seem to the audience, as one of a healthy workplace, where there is a higher degree of worker satisfaction. This creates a positive outlook and people would eventually conclude that a company who treats their employees in a considerate way will treat the customers as near to divine.
On the other hand, the customer reviews are one that is unpredictable, as they tend to voice their emotions without any reservation on the internet. The internet has become the greatest forum to turn into a battlefield, and you don’t want your firm in the thick of an invigorating war of words between rival customers.
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“Always be amicable and patient with customers, for then you’ll reap the rewards.”[/caption]
Always monitor what’s going on the internet community and the review sites, where customers could possibly post scathing review of your website and you wouldn’t be aware of how damaging it is to your reputation. Such bad information will not put your company in a good light with the customers and you need to act quickly before you start losing any more customers.
What the customers have said can be selected, catalogued and then stored in the search engine results according to your needs. Using proper search engine optimization techniques, you can choose the positive ones out of the lot, you can also write positive and neutral non-review content,and then you catalogue them inside the first 3 search pages. While the entire negative ones are pushed towards beyond the third page.
Of course the greatest trick in reputation management is to actually try and make direct contact with the customers so that you can appeal to them, or you can address their grievances. If you do fair job in listening to their concerns, they will like they can trust you again, then you can safely ask them to retrieve or cancel the negative review that they’d written for you.
- Select your publisher with prudence
The publisher that you want to convince, so that he/she will publish your particular content may have certain non-professional reasons as to why they refuse to publish your work. They might be biased towards other firms that have published work in the same niche where your work is, and they will naturally try to protect their first clients or their preferred client’s interest.
Or it may be more personal and they identify something you might’ve done to someone, or something that could have had negative repercussions in their firm’s reputation. This involves more personal factors than anything professional, and it arises because those cannot be made separate.So, it should be taken into consideration whether the firm has any reason whatsoever to hold your company in contempt for what you might’ve inadvertently done in the past i.e. you should research whether there is some connection between your company and the publisher’s.
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“Think twice where you’re publishing the piece, you don’t want to have
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Your reputation is a very volatile thing to hold on to, one wrong slip and the next thing you know is you’re surrounded by wolves and vultures, waiting to devour your very flesh,; in this case your brand reputation and your dedicated fan base, mercilessly feeding them with all minute details of your slip up and making it indelible in their heads. But worry not, with professional help and by being very careful in every single step you’ll be able to stop any catastrophe from happening. With the same expertise they can help you improve upon your current reputation and make you more visible as well as increase your present fan base to a point where yours will be the first thing they will recall when they think of a product that you’re trying to sell.
So to surmise, if you want to hold on to your reputation, you have to be very conscious of the things happening about you and target any potential liability arising in the spectrum of the internet.Strategies have to be adopted to select them and deal with them in a proper manner, so that any further damage can be avoided. Different tactics also need to be formulated as to how the current reputation can be further advanced; these should be done with tact and precision. The internet, by nature, is vey porous and a small byte of data could be the difference between success and disaster,therefore, this is a field that shouldn’t be taken for granted and has to be approached with skill.…
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