Archive for the ‘Online Reputation Management’ Category

Product Branding & Brand Recognition in the Digital Age

October 17th, 2011 by

Are We Living in the End of Advertising?

Julian Sanchez thinks so:

Imagine that, for nearly any product consumers encountered, some kind of aggregate rating—based on whatever criteria the individual has determined are most important—would simply appear, with minimal effort. Simply looking at an aisle of products—or even passing shops on the street—I might effortlessly learn which were deemed most satisfactory by people with tastes similar to mine… With such information more directly available, marketing would become far less relevant to the buyer—and a far less worthwhile investment for the producer.  (more…)

Wanted: Excellent Marketing & Web Development Interns

August 18th, 2011 by

3 Internships Available at  DragonSearch’s Kingston, NY Office

LEAN IN.  Are you the Student that knows the steps that would take a new web site from creation to crawled and an online marketing success? DragonSearch, http://www.dragonsearchmarketing.com, is searching for three interns for our Kingston, NY office. After spending time with us, you’ll not only know what “crawled” means, but other skills that will take you from a “pretty great” to an “EPIC” job candidate. (more…)

An Open Invitation: Ric Dragon Presents Local Social Media

November 11th, 2010 by

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UPDATE: Regretfully, the November 18th meeting of the Hudson Valley Chapter of the BMA has been cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Are you a small business owner or marketer in the Hudson Valley? Have you been wondering how you can maximize the benefits of social media? We’ve got some great news for you. The Business Marketing Association of the Hudson Valley is holding a dinner meeting on November 18th, with our own Ric Dragon as the featured speaker.

Social Media Marketing for Local Businesses

Ric DragonRic will explain how to increase your current search engine rankings and exposure, the importance of online reputation management and how you can squash any poor publicity, and how you can improve your long term return on investment.  His presentation will include tips on social networking training and consulting, including:

  • A discussion of case studies on how major social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace can be used, as well as tips on maximizing the benefits
  • How small businesses can measure the costs and potential return to evaluate how much they should be involved with social media.
  • How to engage employees with social media.
  • Developing social media policies.
  • Social media monitoring.

Hudson Valley Business Owners: Don’t Miss This Social Media Networking Event!

This event is sponsored by Daybreak Virtual Staffing Solutions. The event will be held Thursday, November 18, from 6:00-9:00pm at Cappucino’s by Coppola’s, located on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie. The cost of dinner is $25.00 for members and $35.00 for nonmembers. Payment can be made at the door by check or cash only please. You can register for the event by clicking here. RSVP’s can be made via the website at www.bma-hv.org or by contacting Burnelle Roser via e-mail: burnelle@yahoo.com or phone 845-790-2940.

Bring your questions (and your appetite), and join us for an evening of social media enlightenment, and networking with local marketing professionals.  How do you see local businesses using social media? Do you have any questions for Ric? Let us know!

Setting Up Family Social Media Policy Rules

June 24th, 2010 by

Setting Up Family Social Media Policy Rules

Creating a Family Social Media Policy: part 3

So, you believe now that you NEED to have a Family Social Media Policy and you have finished the Steps to ensure that your Family Social Media Policy is a success, now it’s time to actually making the Social Media Policy for your family!

Again, how you go about doing this should work for your own family dynamic.  Maybe you and your spouse hammer it out and announced the new regime or maybe a family meeting works best in your home. In any case there are quite a few things to think about:

What Defines Social Media to Your Family?   (more…)

Steps Towards Creating a Family Social Media Policy

June 22nd, 2010 by

Creating a Family Social Media Policy: part 2

internet-blundersNow that I have convinced you that you are a bad parent and the lives of your loved ones will be ruined in Creating a  Family Social Media Policy: part 1, we shall look at the beginning steps.  As with all things parenting related, creating a family social media policy will involved education, monitoring and rules.

One of the first hurdles to get over is convincing your children of WHY a Family social media policy is important. Granted, you might not parent by democracy, but  by educating your kids (and other family members if necessary) why it is important, there is a better chance of compliance through that understanding so let’s discuss first some reasons to avoid internet blunders.

The Importance of An Online Reputation

While it can seem like out of site equals out of mind, once you hit send it’s not really gone! (more…)

Planning for Privacy, Personal Photos, and Wonder Woman Underoos

June 19th, 2010 by

Creating a Family Social Media Policy: part 1

A Facebook comment  on my post  about needing a Personal Social Media Policy inspire me to think about the need for a Family Social Media Policy. Social Media Policies are not just good for businesses, not just good for people, they are good and necessary for any organization and that includes a family!

Why Develop a Social Media Policy for Your Family?

Let’s think about it for a second.  The internet use to be fairly simple. We all had weird screen names that included many odd numbers since the whole world was on AOL and there could only be so many johnnycakes 3000. No one was who they really were in real life and the rules were simple: hide  everything!

  • Don’t post a real picture of yourself.
  • Don’t name your kids names.
  • Never let it out where you work or even what you do because “they” might be able to figure out that SuzieQ239 who works at Macys really is Susanna Metcalf from ladies intimates.

It’s gotten much more complicated now. (more…)

Internet Reputation Management Is Easier Than You Will Probably Admit

December 16th, 2009 by

Protect Your Internet Reputation In One Easy, Magical Step

Scour the web for information on Internet reputation management. Go ahead…scour. I’ll wait.

Chances are, most of what you find is lessons, tips, tricks, methods, ways and schemes to keep your digital nose clean and protect your Internet reputation. It’s all wrong. Most of what you will find are a range of approaches akin to business crisis management tactics – address immediately, suppress immediately, drown the crisis with misdirection, mask it with spin. It’s all wrong because these are all things you do after your Internet reputation takes a hit.

The best reputation management happens waaaay before the first poor review or the first snarky hit you take on Facebook. In other words, the most effective Internet reputation management strategy you have is the one that gathers dust on the shelf. (more…)

Overcoming negative listings in Google

March 26th, 2008 by

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Every so often, I encounter a business that has gotten some negative press on the web.  And sometimes, it really is undeserved.  Take, for example, the legal firm that once had a client sue them for supposedly overbilling time.  The case was thrown out as having no merit, but the mentions of it on the web remained. And because this client didn’t have a lot of mentions out there on the web, the negative posts were the top things to come up in Google.  Ouch.

 So, how do we overcome those negative listings?  We can’t get them OFF of the web… they are there to stay.  And if we reply to the posts, that just gives them more back links, and thus helps to insure their high ranking.

 No, what we did was to help insure that there were many pieces of content out there on the web on credible sites, all mentioning the client’s name.  Then, we did a bit of back-linking to those posts in various places, to help insure that they would rise in the SE’s. 

I requires a bit of effort, but it can pay off.



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