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You are responsible for your own personal reputation online. As a manager at various companies search marketing agencies over the years I have had to do my fair share of hiring. I believe that it behooves me to share with the job-seeking public, some words of advice. Having been in this industry for since the early 2000s, I have seen the landscape change. In fact, the whole game is different and people who are looking for employment have to work with different rules and requirements today. Because I don’t source suitably qualified applicants for any one field in particular, I hope you will receive my advice in the holistic tone in which it is intended. If I were giving a lecture, my opening statement to you would be simple – You people are messing up, royally. A little harsh, a little succinct, but very necessary. [Read more…]

Apparently because of a legal complaint, the home page of Ripoff Report has been de-listed by Google. If you search for Ripoff Report in Google, the site’s home page is no longer listed in the search results. However, another page appears, the search.aspx page. [Read more…]

A day after it was revealed that Dr. Gwen S. Korovin, MD was the doctor who performed the biopsy on Joan Rivers and took a selfie during the procedure, the doctor’s Google Plus page is being vandalized. A Google search for “Dr. Gwen Korovin, MD” shows the doctor’s Google Plus page ranking number one:

I won’t post the reviews that have been posted by Google Plus users, but all of them are not very positive. In fact, they all pretty are very bad, and it’s a shame that people will go to the levels that they have in posting them. [Read more…]

The Ripoff Report has struck back against the so-called reputation management companies that claim to be able to remove posts about companies on the RipoffReport.com website. In a recent press release, Ripoff Report claims that they have removed code on their website that was left by a hacker hired by reputation management companies. [Read more…]

Have you ever wondered what people are REALLY saying about your brand? Some people think they can just send out a couple of customer surveys, or do a few focus groups, and gather all the information they need about the public’s opinion about their products. [Read more…]

Let me first say that I’ve been a fan of MediaPost for years now. MediaPost has, over the years, reported some great stories. But I’m actually embarrassed by a recent article in their Marketing Daily column that I read from time to time. I’m not sure if this is just a lack of attention to detail or not, but a friend of mine tipped me off, showing me this. And FreshAvails gave me inspiration for this blog post. [Read more…]

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How is your reputation? What about your online reputation? If you search for your name or your company’s name in the search engines, what shows up in the search results? And online reputation management seminar is being held in Dallas on May 13, 2009. [Read more…]

Results from a new survey reveals that half of all employers surveyed said that they search online for information about prospective hires at least some of the time. This means that if you are looking for a job then it is extremely important to make sure that if someone Googles your name and does some research about you then they must find good results. [Read more…]