Spring Cleaning Your Online Profiles

Now that it’s finally heating up, pools are beginning to open, and everything is no longer blanketed by allergenic pollen , it is time to do some spring cleaning. Once you have finished a deep clean of your house, focus on your online profiles. Whether you are a recent graduate who is embarking on a [...]

Alex Broches: Reputation Management for High Profile Individuals and Brands

In our last post, we had the chance to speak with “Internet Man of Mystery” Alex Broches about using a surge in buzz to boost your positive reputation. Today we take a look at the flip side of the coin: what does an individual or business do once they have built a strong online presence [...]

Protect Your Online Reputation this Halloween

Halloween is right around the corner. Do you have your costume planned? Have you stocked up on candy to appease kids in your neighborhood? While this American holiday is synonymous with free candy, wild costumes, and innocent debauchery, one Halloween mistake could affect your online reputation. Why is an online reputation important? When the individual [...]

You Are No Longer Anonymous Online

Social media has given individuals the chance to join global conversations and comment on any range of topics. However, some prefer to surf the Internet anonymously, and would rather protect their online privacy by hiding behind screen names or usernames when leaving comments on a blog, news article, forum, or video. While you might think [...]

Personal Branding

In the past, when individuals wanted to advance their careers, they made themselves better employees by practicing a number of self-help techniques. Today, the best way for individuals to get ahead is by marketing themselves in a process called personal branding. This entails using internet marketing tools to shape the way that others view you. [...]

3 Ways to Repair Your Reputation

Welcome to the internet, where your privacy and your reputation are constantly under attack. Your privacy is compromised even when a small detail about your life makes its way online, like if you put your phone number in your Facebook about section without realizing that it is publicly viewable. Your reputation can also take a hit, from [...]

How the Facebook IPO put its Reputation in Crisis

By now everyone has heard about the daily hits Facebook’s stock price is taking due to news that their updated revenue projections were only shared with certain investors. However in all the madness, few have stopped to think about how this saga and the handling of the IPO itself are affecting its reputation. In the [...]

Social Media and Privacy

Pew recently released some interesting findings about social media, which show that more people are taking control of their online reputation management. Deleting Friends One interesting stat shows that 63% of respondents have deleted people from their “friends” list, up from 56% in 2009. 67% of women say they have deleted friends, compared to 58% [...]

Web Visibility

We have written many posts about how online reputation management impacts your business, but today we will focus on one particular benefit: Web Visibility Your business has a lot to gain by increasing its web visibility. Think about all the business lost when customers search for a particular service or product you offer but go [...]

Social Media Reputation

Today is the final day of Privacy Awareness Week 2012, so hopefully you have picked up on many tips for improving your online privacy and managing your online reputation through our blog posts or the articles we have shared and re-tweeted on Twitter (@Reputation911.) All week we ran a blog series that dealt with cleaning [...]