Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Why Online Reputation Management?



























Why should you as a company think about online reputation management? Isn’t that out of your control? In the real world, yes. Online, your reputation has a much larger audience – anyone who wants to, can bring up a list of results about you.

Who’s writing about you? It’s not just the digital avatars of journalists but your consumers. With the increase in the number of online communication channels, people are talking about every aspect of their life online.

This includes you and your effect on your consumers’ lives. Earlier, these conversations would happen in real time, around the water cooler. Now, they occur simultaneously, on the water cooler that is the net, and are documented in perpetuity. More people are talking, more and more are listening.

How then, can you influence your online reputation?

Reputation is critical. It means how positively, or negatively, a company or similar institution is perceived by its stakeholders. The success of any organisation or entity depends on the people or entities that the company or institution relies on. The image they have of an organisation would hence directly affect the success of the entity. For many for-profit companies, typical stakeholders might include customers, employees, suppliers, or financial analysts. For governments or political entities such as Congress, BJP stakeholders are, above all, the electorate.Digital Marketing Agency-Nikulsan Technologies



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