2. What is Rep Management?
⚬ Making sure you’re seen in the best light
⚬ Removing doubt
⚬ Reputation = product of a million tiny crises
3. What is Rep Management?
⚬ Part of digital marketing strategy
⚬ An ongoing process
⚬ Not something you sit down and “do”
4. Reputation matters
⚬ 97% of consumers research purchases
online
⚬ 75% use social networks
⚬ 70% are influenced by their peers’ posts
⚬ 86% are influenced by negative reviews
10. Organic search
⚬ Manage your search results
⚬ Monitor brand terms
⚬ Monitor related terms (“xxx review” etc.)
11. Example - competitor
⚬ Competitor published negative article
⚬ Ended up #3 for “Crunch Accounting”
⚬ Lost a month of sales & 3 months to recover
12. Review sites
⚬ Funnel customers to your site of choice
⚬ Seed positive reviews
⚬ Proactively engage & fix negative reviews
⚬ Bad reviews are good!
13. Unexpected places
⚬ Check website referral traffic
⚬ Dark social - difficult to track down
⚬ Track with Brandwatch / Mention
14. Should you get involved?
⚬ Conversation happens with or without you
⚬ Judgement call as to creepiness level
⚬ Don’t have to get involved as “The Brand”
15. Tools you might not
consider
⚬ Most marketing products can be used, e.g.
⚬ Outbrain - sneaky positive sentiment
⚬ Paid promotion (Facebook, Twitter)
⚬ Social profiles to crowd out negative search results
16. Bad sentiment is
contagious
⚬ Easier to complain than praise
⚬ Positive sentiment is difficult to extract
⚬ Find the “moment of truth” to ask for review
17. At the end of the day
⚬ Rep management can’t fix a bad product
⚬ Improvement should be part of the process
⚬ Get complaints seen & addressed by Execs