Alan Bush joined AMA San Diego’s monthly podcast This Week in Marketing to cover an important topic that many businesses face: Reputation Management.
Alan and the This Week in Marketing co-hosts cover topics including generating new reviews, SEO implications, dealing with negative reviews, training your customer service team and more!
Please check out the show notes below and listen in for some great tips!
Reputation Management Show Recap:
In part 1 one of the podcast, Alan discusses his role as VP of Strategy at Ignite visibility and our reputation management processes. He then touches on the business value behind reputation management. Alan also talks about personal and business branding. It’s important to focus on both personal brand reputation management and company brand reputation management as there is a major difference between the two!
Alan brought up a ton of great tools, including one called knowem.com.
Here is a list of other tools that can assist with social media and reputation management:
- Google Alerts, tracks mentions of your name and brand
- Ifttt.com, an automation tool that connects to multiple devices and platforms
- Hootsuite, a tracking tool for social media management
In part 2 of the conversation, Alan covers when to hire someone for reputation management. Alan emphasizes the importance of reviews for SEO and gets into some of the differences between local and national rankings. The hosts then briefly discuss how to put reviews on your website in order to improve rankings.
Part 3 of the discussion focuses on the impact that responding to reviews has on local SEO and SPOILER ALERT according to Google, it helps. We then talk about negative reviews and how and when to properly respond to them.
In the final discussion, Alan talks about the challenges that businesses may face along the way and some solutions. We then dive into how to deal with reviews that are coming up on branded search results.
About the This Week in Marketing Hosts
Kevin Svec: Kevin is the co-host of This Week in Marketing and a content manager with E2M Solutions. He loves to write about his adventures and recently started his own travel blog.
Sam Wheeler: Sam is the co-host and a marketing expert with a love for the digital realm. He supports brands with their marketing efforts in several countries and has worked with some of the smallest brands and some of the largest. His current projects include Guava Family and a company featured on Shark Tank, the Uncharted Supply Co.
