Today we’re talking about your online business representation. Your online representation is so important because this is what new customers will look at before deciding to use your products or services. First impressions really do count in business, so let’s take a look at how you can monitor your online representation.
Reviews
So there’re lots of different places that people can leave reviews. I would suggest you go out there and find any industry-specific review sites and then add them to your watch list so that you can see what people are saying about you on these different review sites. Be right on top of it and get ready to send them a review back. There’re different sites that you can use or things called RSS feeds. They’ll let you set up alerts for different keywords that go out about you. We use a product called Sendible that lets us monitor a whole bunch of different websites and keywords around the internet.
Google Reviews
Firstly we are going to be talking about Google Reviews. Check out your reviews, make sure that you’re getting alerted when your reviews are going up. That’s important. You want to make sure that you’re getting any industry reviews that are going up about you coming to your inbox because if there is a problem, you need to jump on top of it. If you want to make sure that customers are happy, make them happy, talk to them and make sure that you’re leaving great reviews for them and in responses to their reviews. Set up Google Alerts to make sure that you’re getting this input so you know what you’re doing.
Social Media Sites
The next thing is the social sites. If you’re not updating your Facebook page and you’re not creating a community around it, there’s no point. It just looks stupid. Don’t do it. Just stay away from it. People know what Facebook is. You don’t need to be advertising that anymore. There’re no more than 2 billion accounts created on Facebook. There’s no need to be advertising it. If you have a Facebook page or a Twitter page or a Pinterest page or an Instagram page or any of these other technologies, make sure you’re updating it. Update it regularly. Update it once a week, once a month depending on the industry you’re in. Show customers comments and feedback. If you don’t update it, delete it. Pull the sticker off, get new business cards, delete the page. It’s not good for your online brand and online representation. You want to make sure that you are doing what you’re meant to be doing on these sites and that is keeping your customers engaged and creating an environment for growth. Don’t have the growth mould. You won’t get happy people leaving comments on Facebook. You’ll get sad people leaving comments on Facebook unless you create an environment to have happy people leave comments.
The Final Word
So in closing, we use Sendible, Google Reviews as well as Google Alerts to different industry words that we might be involved in. Here is something to think about. You can’t always be the best person you can be for every single customer. You might be having a bad day. If someone comes to you with a review on a site, you can then just try and keep your finger on the pulse, but spin it, help them out, have them change the review if you are able to genuinely help them out. hope this has been helpful, stay good!
About The Author
Joshua Lewis is the Director of DorksDelivered, a Brisbane based information technology and services firm. DorksDelivered provides end-to-end IT solutions for small, medium and large enterprises. Streamlines systems, operations-management, and implements high‐tech solutions to ensure the integrity, up-time and accountability of all internal system processes.
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