Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Buzzdetector latest features

In the everyday effort to improve the service to our clients and prospects, Buzzdetector staff is proud to announce the latest feature.
Within the Buzzdetector website, clients subscribing for the monitoring service, will have access to a dedicated page, with username and password, where read posts, watch video and pictures , listen for podcasts selected by the editorial team, compare charts with quantitative trend data and a tag cloud. And when time is shorter than usual, a further selection of the most important posts, divided in positive and negative and the comments of the editorial staff. Posts can be emailed directly from the page. Not bad, isn't it? And that's not all. We are working to deliver always new features. Stay tuned: September is close.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Better to know before


This piece of research from BigResearch points where online searchers is expected to put big money in the next months.

With all the cries about recession and slow economy, better to know before and, if you are in any of the segments of the list, think carefully about the perception of your brand and products, how's your customer care staff is performing and all these small details that can make your day.

Reviewing your score now, can save share of market if not increase them.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

What really drives reputation? Customers!

In this article for Imediaconnection, Marian Salzman talk about products making their way to replace brands as reputation drivers.
I generally agree with her point of view about the fact that:

  1. without product there is no brand
  2. in the world of the web 2.0, this is far more crucial than in the past
  3. if a brand is truly honest and transparent, this is perceived added value
But there is a missing point.
Reputation does no longer comes from your product or your brand: it's your customer that makes your reputation.
A terrific brand with an outstanding product can crash is perceived as not reliable by customers.
And reliability is not only a matter of how well is crafted the product, but it's made by several factor:

  1. is this company honest to me and to my environment?
  2. how this product impact on my environment?
  3. are there any hidden issue in how the product is made (underpaid workforce? healthy concerns?)
  4. am I paying a right price to purchase it?

It's customers that can push a product and a brand to the sky or drive them to hell.