Everything You MUST

Know About Managing

Your Online Reputation
Deseret Group, LLC
(800) 213-9830
Deseretmarketinggroup.com

derk.hebdon@deseret
marketinggroup.com

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Table of Contents
1 Who We Are
2 What We Do
3 What Is Your Online Reputation?
Your Online Reputation Is NOT what you think it is...
Yelp Example
4 Why is Your Local Online Reputation Important?
Why is your reputation important?
Do you think you really know what your customers are saying about
your product or service?
How does this affect you?
Still wondering about the importance of your online reputation?
5 Assessing your Online Reputation
How exactly do you assess your reputation?
You are going to see mostly directory results
3 Important Issue To Look That Will Kill your online Reputation
Positive reviews are social signals
Positive Reviews Can Help Your Business Rank Higher Online
Tell Consumers about your business
How do you go about managing, building and marketing your
reputation?
6 How to Hire a Reputation Management Consultant
Expert Insights On Reputation Management
Choosing The Right Strategy
Manage
Build
Market
Create a System that Continually receives Feedback from Your
Customers
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Set expectations for staff and for customers

Evaluate your website
Find negative comments and have them removed
7 How to Protect Your Online Reputation
8 Best Business Practices
9 Questions to ask an Internet Marketing Consultant
10 Questions to Ask an Internet Marketing Consultant Checklist
11 Best Business Practices Checklist
12 Next Steps
13 Recommended Resources

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Deseret Group
(800) 213-9830
www.deseretmarketinggroup.com
Derk. [email protected]

Who We Are
At Deseret Group, our mission is to help businesses just like yours, improve and
manage their online reputation. We deliver this through full-service solutions that
are transparent, efficient, and cost-effective.
We partner with you to help you build your business by creating and maintaining
reputations that are of the highest quality, authentic and convincing.

What We Do
At Deseret Marketing Group, our goal is a simple one - to ensure that when
customers search for your company, they will always encounter a positive, 5 star
image that leads to sales/conversions. We do this by listening to you, and
understanding your business and specific market needs.
Based on our knowledge and rigorous analysis we create customized winning
strategies that address your specific needs.

Our biggest success story?

Its YOUR business! We are proud to say that we have helped hundreds of local
businesses in your Utah achieve their objectives.

Our Expertise
As a recognized industry innovator, we have proven over and over again with
every satisfied client, Deseret's leadership position in the field of online
reputation management. Our expertise has been recognized not only by our
clients, but also on national TV, radio, print and online media.
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What Is Your Online

Reputation?
Its not very complicated to see what your online reputation is, simply put, it is
how your customers and potential customers see you when they search for you
online. Try it yourself, do a simple search - look at the results, you will see these
includes everything that can be found online about your business, whether you
purposefully published it or not. Photographs, videos, reviews, news articles, blog
posts, social media profiles, people search sites, public tax or property records,
basicallyanything.
The sites that list you company and your reputation are called Local Directories.
These sites combined represent millions of potential customers for local
businesses like yours. Here are some of the popular sites that display your
reputation and you might not even know what reviews are on them.
For example, Google, Yelp, YellowBot, InsiderPages are all top listing directories

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Your Online Reputation Is NOT what you think it is...

So here is an interesting fact - your online reputation is determined by
mathematical algorithms, which are machine driven complex calculations, and
automated reasoning that actually guesses what people will find interesting. So
these searches, while impartial are actually an incorrect measure of your real
offline reputation. Many times they can include irrelevant but intriguing items, and
because search results are arranged by popularity not chronologically, older
items and outdated information can show up first if enough people click on them.

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Yelp Example
Yelp uses a filtering algorithm that removes good reviews or even bad based on
the popularity of the profile and review. Which means dozens of your 5 star
ratings are buried and bad ratings might be the only ones showing.

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Why is Your Local Online

Reputation Important?
Now that you know what your online reputation is, and hopefully you have taken
the time to do a little searching on your own, why should it matter to your
business?

Why is your reputation important?

Any business of any size knows that word of mouth is a very powerful way to
grow your market share, perhaps the most important to a small business. Your
business flourishes with good recommendations from your customers and friends
and conversely suffers without them. In fact, studies have shown that positive
and negative reviews on sites such as Yelp have a direct impact on your sales.
Now imagine amplifying your reputation online in a multitude of channels and
sites.

Do you think you really know what your customers are saying
about your product or service?
There are many ways for customers to communicate and talk to each other
online. Without your knowledge, anyone could be posting comments about your
company, giving negative reviews - this is called eWOM, or Electronic Word of
Mouth. Do you know how to protect your online reputation from being tarnished?

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How does this affect you?

The truth is that, consumers research online before you even know that they are
considering using your service or buying your product. And because reviews and
information about a company can be found so easily online, those customers will
be seeing all the information thats out there about your company.
Ultimately, eWOM reviews have a strong influence in consumer choices when
purchasing products or services1. Based on a 2015 study, more than two-thirds
of US Internet users trust businesses more because of positive online reviews. 2

1
2

No one and McGuire 2013

2015 Bright Local Consumer Review Survey

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Still wondering about the importance of your online reputation?

3
2

2014 Bright Local Consumer Review Survey

2014 Bright Local Consumer Review Survey

4
2014 Edelman Trust Barometer

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The Case of Yelp

You can appreciate the impact that an online review can have on your business,
but do you know the effect on your bottom line? Peer to peer review sites like
Yelp, Angies List and Tripadvisor are more important than ever to consumers
when selecting goods and services. This is especially true for local businesses.
The findings of a study by a group of economists from UC Berkeley, CA
conclusively indicate that as little as a half-star difference in a restaurant's
average rating on Yelp can greatly impact an establishments reservations,
pushing numbers up. The results of this study clearly show the correlation
between positive Internet reviews and consumers behavior.

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This is how Yelp ratings work: Yelp aggregates star ratings from each review to
create an average rating for a restaurant. Then, it rounds that average rating to
the half-star level. So restaurants are displayed with 3, 3.5, or 4 stars.
The true average rating, is continuous and could be any number between 1 and
5 For example there are some restaurants have true ratings of 3.74, while others
have a true rating of 3.76. We might think these restaurants are pretty similar in
terms of food quality, service, etc. - whatever people take into consideration
when making a review, they've ultimately reviewed these two restaurants almost
exactly the same. But because Yelp rounds its ratings, the 3.74 restaurant will be
displayed as 3.5 stars, while the 3.76 restaurant will be displayed as 4 stars. By
making comparisons like that, we can see where there are differences in
reservation availability between two restaurants which are almost exactly the
same in terms of how customers review them, but which look very different on
Yelp. It's these types of comparisons which let us say that the only "real"
difference between these two restaurants is Yelp - and when we compare
restaurants like these, we see that the restaurants which just barely get 4 stars
sell out about 19% more frequently than restaurants which almost get 4 stars.
This is what lets us infer causality.

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Assessing your Online

Reputation
Before you can start doing anything with your online reputation Manage,
Market or Building it, you first need to determine what your online reputation is,
and to do this correctly you will need to either take a deep dive on your own, or
hire a consultant.

How exactly do you assess your reputation?

It used to be easy - with one Google search you could uncover pretty much
anything that was out there about your company. However, today there are a
multitude of peer-to-peer review sites, complaint websites, many social media
platforms, wikis and forums. The growing number of these platforms and
reputation touch points has increased to a very large number. Ultimately,
monitoring all of these sites for the purpose of protecting your image can be
overwhelming to a business owner, after all arent you already wearing many
hats?

Local Businesses Cannot Monitor Their Reputation

If you are brave enough to take it on, a good exercise is to search for your
company, brand, products, and even employee names - and see what results
you find. Use different search engines, as these provide different ways to search
for information and make sure you go beyond the first page of results. What you
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want to find is all of the information that is out there about your business. Most
importantly, search all of the review sites such as Yelp, Amazon, TripAdvisor,
Angies List and Glassdoor. Yelp, Angies List and TripAdvisor are especially
important to local businesses. There are also specialized sites per industry, for
example OpenTable is very important to the restaurant business, determine
which review sites are most important to your industry. The more platforms you
search, the more information you will find.

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Type in your company name >

Look at your results >

You are going to see mostly directory results

Once youve found results, you need to keep track of them. Create a
spreadsheet that you can reference at any time and put the following information
on it, in this order:
1. Position in the search engines (was it the first, second, fourth, etc. result);
2. URL that has the publicity; the type of publicity (whether its good, bad,
indifferent, or not about you);
3. General sentiment behind the posting.

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3 Important Issue To Look That Will Kill Your online Reputation

Once youve assessed your online reputation, review your results and determine
the overall outlook of your reputation. What youll be looking for during your
research are these issues:

While this latter problem is an obvious one, why does it matter if there are
indifferent results about your company or if the results are not about you?

44% of online shoppers begin by using a search engine.

60% of all organic clicks go to the organic top 3 search results5.

Hubspot.com, 2014

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Why is this a problem? It means that people dont think anything about you, good
or bad, because they may not even know that your company exists! And thats a
problem.

Positive reviews are social signals

This means that people are engaging with you in a positive way - and thats what
you want!
Not being found on search engines indicates that you have no SEO strategy or
social presence - this means when an average consumer is searching for a
company like yours - yours doesnt come up - but your competitors might.
Whether your reputation assessment is positive or negative, it is of utmost
importance that your company keeps a strong presence and is diligent in
improving search engine rankings with a solid SEO strategy.

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Positive Reviews Can Help Your Business Rank Higher Online

Reviews deliver more value, at a lower cost, than other marketing activities, it is a
gold mine for local businesses. If your business isnt currently collecting new,
positive reviews, you run the risk of losing potential customers to nearby
competitors.
The big problem with not having an online reputation is that when other people
want to post something negative about your company, they can quickly climb to
the top of the page rankings in the search engines. This means that when
anyone searches for your company, the first thing theyll see is something
negative. Most online reviews exist in perpetuity. In short, if you dont build your
own online reputation yourself, someone will do it for you.

Tell Consumers about your business

Consumers who are searching for your company need to see a 5 star rating. A
simple directory listing or a map to your place of business isnt telling the
customer enough. Its not telling them why they should shop with you, what you
have to offer, or how your product or service will help them. Without any real
concrete reason to even click on your name, the chances are that theyll move on
to your competition that has glowing testimonials, reviews, and comments.

How do you go about managing, building and marketing your

reputation?
The first step is to hire a professional marketing consultant who is an expert in
online reputation management. The skills and experience needed to manage
your reputation effectively go far beyond traditional Brand Management and
Marketing.

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How to Hire a Reputation

Management Consultant
Managing your online reputation, let alone all the many other things that go along
with your companys online marketing strategies, can take much more time than
you, as a business owner, might have. You should hire a professional to handle
this very important dimension of your business; after all it can have a tremendous
impact on your business.
Hiring the right professional can make a huge difference to your business; these
are the key areas that you should be looking at.
Look For Expertise In These Three Key Areas
1. Managing Reputation - Is the practice of monitoring the reputation of your
business, addressing content and customer feedback. Most reputation
management is focused on managing and pushing down negative search results.
Examples are:

Monitoring reviews that customers leave on review sites or social media

Interpret analytic data and reporting
Create management responses to customer reviews
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 Respond and manage expectation of customers

Using feedback manage staff service levels to provide the best customer

service
2. Building your business reputation
Asking For Reviews and customer feedback

Manage feedback review pages

Create and manage customer surveys, analyze results
Encourage customers to leave a review onsite via tablet
Direct mail strategy through cards and postcard to ask for reviews
Email customers within 48 hours of receiving products or services
3. Marketing Reputation

Display positive reviews on Website

Communicate reviews with potential and existing customers through emails
and newsletters

Publish reviews in sales materials

Post social media - posting on your social media
Video marketing - creating video review commercials
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 Create graphics from your reviews and share them online

Monitor and share user generated content, photos on social media

A Few Terms You Should Understand

Monitoring - Do you know what people are saying about your company
online? You should.

Alerts - Using a monitoring system, alerts are like a flag that lets you
know instantly when there has been a mention of your company

Building your online reputation - This is the methodical work involved

in creating a positive online reputation, step by step.

Asking for online reviews - This is perhaps one of the most important
thing to understand. Make it easy for customers to submit their positive reviews.

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Response management - The discipline of responding to inquiries for

information in timely, continual, and consistent fashion to optimize your contact.

Leveraging your positive reviews - Translating the positive reviews and

comments into business opportunity.

Here are a few tips on what to look for when hiring a professional:

Digital savvy
The world of Internet marketing and, more specifically, managing your online
reputation, requires an in-depth knowledge of: SEO, page rankings, review sites,
and where to look for comments. The nature of the digital world is fast paced
and changing quickly from day to day, hire someone who is up on trends and has
access to the latest and greatest research and tools.
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 Analytical
Consultants must have in-depth knowledge and understanding of tracking tools
and analytics - and more importantly how to employ these, and what does it
mean to the bottom line of your business. How many people are visiting your
site? Where are they coming from? How many people are leaving comments on
your site and third-party sites, what are the responses to those reviews.

Expert Insights On Reputation Management

Choosing

The

Right

Manage

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Strategy

 Build

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 Market

Reviews Are The New World Of Mouth

87% of consumers go online after referral

Your Website Role In Reputation

Video Reviews

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When customers land on your website they need to instantly see that you are the
market leader not by what you say but by what your customers say.
SUMMARY

With effort and the guidance of a solid online reputation management company
as your partner, there are a number of ways that you can build your online
reputation. Ultimately, you want an engaged target audience that views your
business as providing a 5 star product or service. With work, you will only be able
to find a predominance of glowing reviews and comments about your business
when searching the Web, and that is all your customers are going to find about
you too.

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Create a System that Continually receives Feedback from Your

Customers

63% of consumers need to hear something at least three times before they
believe it. Reputation.com, 20146

Reputation.com, 2014

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Weve already discussed the process of searching for your companys name and
all relevant information including employees, but here are some more tips to use
when doing so.
Here are the critical steps that you must take in order to build your online
reputation:

Monitoring search engine results

Assessment and Benchmark

Try searching with quotes around your name and then without quotes
Turn your location on and off.
This is how you assess your reputation rather than actually building it, but it is
important to benchmark your starting point in order to measure your results
moving forward.

Ongoing Assessment
Continue to monitor search engine results so that youll be able to see how your
strategies and tactics are working and if theyre having any effect. If you have
year over year, month over month data use it to compare results.
Own your results
Ideally, you want to own every search result, which means you want to be in
control of the information that is available about your company online.
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One way to do that is to build your company profiles and lots of them! Whether
its a social networking site, a sharing site, your own website, or your blog.
Making sure that all information, language, images and videos are consistent is a
critical part of controlling the information about your company. And its easy, you
dont even need to spend a ton of money buying many of those addresses, you
just need to create profiles. Theyll be one of the first things that come up in the
search results.

Set expectations for staff and for customers

When building your online reputation, you need to have thought thru a plan on
how you will respond to comments, it is also important to assign responsibility
internally to who will be responsible for doing so. Its a good idea because it will
help build your reputation. You need to let your staff know that every comment
gets a response and you need to let your customers know that theyll get a
response if they leave a question or a comment.
You will also need to set expectations and develop guidelines and policies for
your staff. Anyone who works for your company at any of the consumer touch
point needs to know how to handle a comment or complaint to make sure it does
not wind up on a review site. They must know how to respond to comments, and
what is considered an acceptable resolution.

Evaluate your website

So its your website, right? You know everything thats up there and what could
you possibly learn from spending a few hours looking over every link, every
category, comments, and such? If youre looking carefully, youll probably learn a
lot! Are there link opportunities that are being missed? Is the information current
and up to date? Or has the technology and information in your field changed but
your website content doesnt reflect that?
The most important thing about your website is that it reflects who you are and
has that personal touch customers are now looking for online. Tell them the story
of how your company came to be, add links to the personal LinkedIn profiles of
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your staff members and include testimonials from past customers talking about
how much your business helped them. All of this goes towards building your
online reputation and one is just as important as the next.

Find negative comments and have them removed

After finding negative mentions, ask the sites to remove them. Serious and
established review sites like Yelp and Angies List have strict guidelines about
removing defamatory information and you should consult directly with their
teams.

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How to Protect Your

Online Reputation
Protecting your online reputation is important not just because of all the time and
money that you have invested to build it up, but more importantly because you
dont want anyone damaging it.
Here are some steps you can take to make sure that once youve built an online
reputation for yourself, no one takes it away from you.

Identify and prevent problems before they occur

As you build your online reputation you will have to keep track of more sites,
profiles and domain names. Make sure that you have a plan in place to regularly
schedule Using different social media management systems (outlined next) to
make sure that if theres a problem, you know about it and you can address it in a
timely manner.

Listen to constructive criticism - Get Feed back from customers

Monitor and address your customers complaints, listen to what customers have
to say and respond to them kindly with a well thought out resolution to the issue.
The chances are if you can resolve a problem, youll win over a lifelong customer
who will become your brand ambassador!

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 Build credibility - Getting Reviews

online
website
social media
text image and video formats

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Best Business Practices

58% of consumers said they have recently begun leaving more online
reviews based on customer service.7
Even though theres been a great deal about online reputation management
covered in this report, chances are that you still have many questions about your
online reputation management.
Here are a few of the most common questions and the answers to them:

how important is customer privacy when it comes to my own online

reputation?
This really goes without saying and its brought up just to prove the point that you
must always, protect your customers privacy. This means never selling or giving
away their information, whether its their credit card number or their email
address. You are never to give out information about your customers without
their permission.

what policies should I have in place regarding managing my online

reputation and social networking sites?

As mentioned earlier, you need to have policies and procedures in place for
yourself and anyone else that work for your company. This will not only allow for
regular, consistent content to be published, but it will also allow you to make sure
that no offensive content is going up that could be damaging to your online
reputation. Along with content policies, also make sure that your staff knows how
to handle the privacy of friends and followers on those sites, as well as how to
treat reviews, retweets, comments, videos, and images posted.
7

Loadspark.com, 2015

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 how do I deal with a negative review?

If during your assessment of your online reputation you find negative reviews or
comments, address them immediately. Ask for details on the problem, and
assure them that you will research it, and also ask if there is anything you can do
to help immediately. Whatever you do, make sure that you follow through.
Negative reviews dont have to be a terrible thing they are an opportunity to
make
positive
changes.
Secret: Respond to negative reviews not based on the person that left the
review but for the potential prospect that is reading your response that
might be your future customer.

is it unethical to ask someone to remove a negative review?

Once you have taken care of the situation its completely understandable and
acceptable to ask the individual to remove the negative comment or review. They
may surprise you and not only remove it, but write a positive review on how your
company is willing to go above and beyond when it comes to customer
satisfaction!

What if its not? Is legal action ever required?

Defamation is serious and some of it can be illegal. If youve done everything you
can to cease, it might be worth your while to hire a lawyer and take legal action.
Keep in mind though, that this should only be done in the most severe cases
when slanderous things are being said and someone is doing a great deal of
damage to your companys reputation. If the website owner wont remove the
content and you dont feel as though legal action is necessary, remember that
you can always write a review outlining that website and that false information.

Can I write reviews on behalf of others?

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NO No no
Why is this BAD - Because it violates the terms of service of all sites, and the
FTC and more importantly it breaks your customers TRUST.

Rule of thumb: the person that has experienced your product or service
must leave all reviews.
There is something wrong with writing your own reviews and saying that they
were written by somebody else. If you write a review on your own product, be
sure to acknowledge that this is a company review and make sure that the
language used reflects it. Never be misleading in your review, it is simply
unethical and theres nothing that will damage your credibility or your reputation
more than when customers find out that you lied in a review and they will.

is it possible to have too many reviews?

Lots of people wonder if there can be too many reviews online about their
company or product. There really is no such thing as too many positive reviews
and youll know if youre getting in too deep and in too much trouble with too
many negative reviews. Generally, as long as you have four positive reviews for
every one negative, youll be fine.

Can I incentivize to leave a review?

The answer is simple, No, No
Some companies have done contests and others have plainly given discounts or
other incentives for customers to leave positive reviews. No matter how small
the incentive YOU SHOULD NEVER INCENTIVISE ANYONE TO LEAVE
REVIEWS.
Incentivizing is bribing. And any company that suggests this to you can get you
into serious legal trouble, and more importantly break the trust of your customers
- something you never want to do.

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Questions to ask an
Internet Marketing
Consultant
There will be many questions that youre going to want to ask your Internet
marketing consultant. These are some of the questions you should ask before
you hire them. You specifically want to ask how they intend to manage your
online reputation. Here are a few important ones to get you started.

What will you do to assess, build, manage and market my online

reputation?

Searching for your company online

Tracking results
Tactics to address negative or indifferent results.
What sites would you use to post reviews and articles about my
company and product?
The various requirements for these sites differ, understanding this will help to get
the best results and the most positive online reputation.

Track my online reputation

Just like comments on social media, blogs offer the ability for you to have a 2way conversation with your audience, and comments can be screened prior to
publishing. Your consultant needs to know not only how to do this, but also how
to track those results so that you can easily see and understand them.
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 How will you get reviews from my customers?

Do you have a CRM or system you give me access to see all my reviews?
Where do you market my reviews?
What do you charge to create Videos to market my reviews?
Do you provide training for my staff in how to ask for reviews?
What analytics will you use to measure results and will you
provide a monthly report?
Analytics tell you the story of who, what when and where you are getting activity
in a quantitative manner. Monthly reports allow for benchmarking to see what is
working in your favor and what is not.

What are your fees and what do those include?

Ask for a detailed proposal that outlines each and every service, hourly rates,
and time assigned to each task, how many hours does this include and what is
the fee schedule if the allotted hours are exceeded.
This will help you understand how much time the consultant managing your
online reputation, will spend, and how much youll be charged.

Do you have references?

The consultant should be prepared to provide you with verifiable references.
Make sure that you contact the references to find out how happy they were the
consultants services.

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Questions to Ask an
Internet Marketing
Consultant Checklist
What are the main things you will do to assess and build my online
reputation?

What social networking sites do you use, and will you use, to help build my
online reputation?

What sites would you be using to post reviews and articles about my
company and product?

Will you write my content for me?

How will you track my online reputation?
If those strategies dont work, will there be any compensation?
What digital news do you subscribe to?
What fees do you charge and what do those include? Will it include my online
reputation management?

Do you have references?

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Best Business Practices

Checklist
How important is customer privacy when it comes to my online reputation?
What policies should I have in place regarding managing my online reputation
and social networking sites?

How do I deal with a negative review?

Is it unethical to ask someone to remove a negative review?
Is it ethical to buy Facebook fans?
Where can I post reviews?
Should I mention competitors in my reviews?
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Next Steps
We hope that you found this free report useful and that it has given you the
information you need to help you better understand the importance of managing
your online reputation and the strategies to employ to help you do just that.
Please contact us today at for a free review of your Online Reputation:
Deseret Group
Derk Hebdon
(800) 213-9830
www.deseretmarketinggroup.com
[email protected]

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Recommended Resources
We know that managing your online reputation can be very stressful. While we
hope this guide has provided you with everything you need to give you the
confidence in managing your online reputation, we understand you may need
further information and assistance. You can always contact us directly at:
(800) 213-9830
or email us at [email protected]
Find out what your reputation is today

http://www.deseretmarketinggroup.com
In addition, we recommend these helpful resources as well:

In 2009, the FTC rewrote its guidelines governing endorsements:

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm

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Read them for yourself, the guidelines are quite explicit as to the transparency
needed when any type of money, gifts, etc. change hands in any type of
endorsement.
In 2010, Google included this line in their review guidelines:
Do not accept reviews written for money or other incentives

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