There are so many aspects of marketing to focus on, and one that many people need to remember to keep up with is Reputation Marketing. Reputation marketing refers to all the marketing that has to do with the face of your business. This involves reviews, customer inquiries, social media responses, and social listening. Reputation management is essential for your business to succeed and should be a part of your marketing strategy. This type of marketing is all about seeing your brand through your customer’s eyes. It’s a great way to see if the message you are putting out about your brand is compelling and if there is room for improvement. You also get to learn more about your audience and what they are looking for from your brand.

Responding To Customers and Potential Customers

One thing essential to reputation management is responding to customers and potential customers promptly. These inquiries, reviews, and comments can come in many channels, all of which you should be attentive to. Keeping an eye on and responding timely on channels like social media, review platforms, surveys, and emails shows your customers and potential customers that you care about their opinions and value their time. Remember that you are responding to someone who took time out of their day to reach out to your business. Your response can help build trust between you and your customers, which increases the chances of them turning into returning customers. Even responding to reviews can make a massive difference in how people perceive your business. Around 95% of people read reviews and comments before making an online purchase or visiting a place for the first time. If you are not responding to customers or responding poorly, you deter possible new customers from dealing with your company and lessen the chance of other customers returning. People are quick to listen to their peers, so if you create a bad name for yourself or do not interact with your customers frequently, word will get around fast. People will be happy to move on to a responsive company that cares about its customers.

Social Listening

Social listening applies to the concept of paying attention to the conversations happening around your brand, company, and the industry you are in through social media. This means paying attention to how people interact with your social media accounts, reviewing what’s being said about your business, and responding to people who reach out to you. This is extremely important because it gives you an inside look at what’s going on in your customer’s mind. It helps you to learn your audience better and can give you an idea of what your customers expect from your business. It can also help you keep tabs on what your competition is doing. It’s always a good idea to see what works for your competitors and what isn’t and apply that to your own company. Social listening is also suitable for stopping problems before they get bigger. Imagine an unsatisfied customer leaves a complaint on your social media, and you can address it and rectify it before others see it, or the issue grows. It is always a good idea to keep social listening and reputation management as a whole as part of your marketing strategy.

We at Bear Necessities Marketing know that staying on top of reviews, social, surveys, and more can be timely and hard to do, and we are here to help. If you need consulting or possible reputation management services for your business, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are here to help in any way that we can.