Is Reputation Management Necessary For An Online Business?

The Importance of Online Reputation Management
By Rhonadale Florentino

Perhaps everybody will agree with the cliche that it takes years to build a reputation and only a few minutes of mistakes for everything to go down the drain. There is just something about a negative publicity that makes it so easy to tarnish a reputation whereas it is so hard to convince a lot of people about one's credibility that you'll need years to develop the latter. This is very true when it comes to businesses. The corporate world is simply a concrete jungle where everybody can be a predator and nobody would want to be the prey, so it's either you eat or be eaten.

Internet is a vast world where lots of businesses have found a home to dwell on and a battle field to compete in. It is a world with lots of potential to make life easier; but, if used on the wrong way, the internet can negatively impact a person's or a company's entire life. Yes, the World Wide Web is young, free and full of potential. Perhaps very free to the point that anyone can be an author, a singer, a songwriter, a dancer, a celebrity or an icon in a matter of days. Who says TV, radio and print are the only ways to gain national and international fame? With the Internet, anyone can be whoever they want to be. Sadly, it is also through the Internet that anyone can destroy anybody with just a few words. Forums, discussions, social networking sites and other active types of sites has been the key for many people to express themselves with no holds barred. This then wreaked havoc towards the prevalence of cyber bullying and the destruction of reputation online.

Fortunately, a new form of internet marketing is here to stay. Online reputation management is a new way to search for negative publicities, replace them with positive awareness and monitor and maintain this status for a period of time. This is a new way of marketing for online popularity. People who do this job are called reputation management teams; they usually belong to an Internet marketing company which offers online solutions to promote a particular name or brand.

A business or a celebrity with a reputation management team on her side has the luxury of sleeping sound at night knowing that the clock is ticking and there will be people who are overseeing the information that are posted under his or her name. It frees a person or a company from handling the extra legwork of cleaning the slate from accusations and negative feedback which gives them more time to focus on their real line of business.

Actually, it is not really the positive reviews and feedback that you will be paying for when you hire an online reputation management team. It is the peace of mind knowing that you keep a good reputation online and that there are people who have your back when it comes to the online opinions and negative information that competitors and detractors have about you. An online reputation management team is the best defense and offense towards a more productive, bright and fulfilling Internet exposure without the hassles and anxiety brought about by negativity.

Rhonadale Florentino is the Managing Director of Talent Shout Business Consultancy, a Philippine-based outsourcing company.

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