Online Reputation Management and How It Impacts Your Business

June 14, 2018

Your online reputation determines how others perceive your business when they search for or stumble upon it online. Consequently, online reputation management (ORM) proactively influences what information people will find.

For instance, various techniques and strategies can help you push damaging and harmful content further down the Google search engine results pages (SERPs) by ranking your own or third-party more desirable material above it. Why is this important? Because the top five listings in Google’s search results receive about two-thirds of all clicks.

ORM is not only about managing content in search engines, though. It’s also about managing negative business reviews and encouraging happy clients to contribute more positive feedback.

Did you know that according to BrightLocal, “85% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations”? What’s more, “49% of consumers need at least a four-star rating before they choose to use a business.”

Considering these statistics, the importance of your online personal and professional reputation can’t be understated. Here are the four distinct digital marketing channels involved in ORM, channels also referred to as the PESO Model.

Paid Media

Paid media includes all marketing efforts that require payment to feature your business on external websites and networks. This includes PPC advertising with Google AdWords, display ads on Facebook, and sponsored posts on industry/influencer blogs. Paid media extends your reach and drives traffic to your web properties by building new relationships with partners and customers.

Earned Media

Earned media describes the coverage of your business on external web entities for which you didn’t pay. It requires you to stand out from your competition with great content, products, or services that users consider worth sharing, mentioning, reposting, and reviewing.

At Conversions Marketing, we understand how important getting testimonials are.

It’s been only 4 months since we’ve launched our online reputation social media package that focuses on increased our client’s reputation with 5 star Yelp, Google and Facebook reviews from social media posts.

Since then, our clients get an average of 7 5- star Yelp and facebook reviews a month, and 15 5- star Google reviews a month. This dramatic increase in their ratings has boosted their sales by 2-3 more each month.

The message is DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF TESTIMONIALS

Our online reputation social media package has become so popular that we just added 2 more social media experts so we that we’ll be able to help 5 clients get incredible results each month.

If you are interested in getting more clients or customers from increasing your online reputation, we should chat.

See our process and case study here