Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Online Reputation PR Pros

While working as a manager for McDonald’s, I often discovered the hazard of losing one customer. One of my favorite axioms states that when you upset one customer, you lose 10 additional customers. This is because they will tell their friends about their horrible experience. With the ever increasing use of blogs, forums, and online reviews this axiom becomes even more relevant. I personally rarely purchase anything these days without checking the online reputation of the company and product.

Large companies have always known that reputation management is an essential part of their business, thus they hire well-paid public relation managers. However, many companies neglect managing their online reputation either because they don't see the importance or they lack the knowledge. Internet Reputation Management Consultants (IRM Consultants) is a company that attempts to help companies that have neglected the importance of online reputation management.

IRM Consultants seeks to reduce the amount of negative search results by moving them beyond the first result page and replacing them with positive results. This means that the first hits people will come to will be positive information about the company. Negative information will be lower on the list; therefore, it will be viewed as less important to the viewers.

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