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Corporate Reputation Management
Any company which does not have a corporate reputation management plan is effectively inviting trouble. It is extremely easy for a reputation to be tarnished by negative press, be they legitimate or spurious attacks by disgruntled ex employees, clients, competition etc. They can arrive from any number of sources and all be highly damaging to a reputation which took a lifetime to build.
More often than not the motives are indeed disingenuous and come from those with an agenda to harm the company for their own gains, normally competitive motives prevail but we have seen almost every motive one could imagine including disgruntled ex lovers.
The best corporate reputation management policy a company can employ is that of preemptive action, I.e. take action before any such problems arise to ensure your company not an easy target for such an attack. This can take carefully planing and a demand a few months effort.
However, this preemptive planing can save a company from a lot of pain and avoid potentially huge losses of business due to the damaging effects of an attack on ones online reputation, made easy because there was not a protective plan of action taken prior the attack.
The earlier the corporate reputation management campaign is instigated the less chance any such problems will result in any real damage, anymore than a slight annoyance. The company image will be solidly protected within the top search results and any negative articles would have to surmount a serious amount of resources to outrank the leading results.