Reputation Management Playbook: The 5-Step Plan for Successfully Managing Your Enterprise Brand’s Online Reputation

By |2020-07-21T13:46:49-07:00July 21, 2020|

Managing your online reputation allows you to control the narrative surrounding your brand, helps boost your local search rankings, encourages foot traffic and conversions, and builds trust with your audience. The question is, how can brands like yours focus on reputation management when you must deal with daily operations of multiple locations in diverse regions? To help answer that question, we have created a detailed five-step playbook for successfully managing your enterprise brand’s online reputation and reviews.

Read More

How to Pivot Your Local Reviews Management Strategy in a Crisis

By |2020-07-21T09:18:40-07:00July 21, 2020|

Once the full impact of the initial Coronavirus lockdown began to register, consumer behavior changed dramatically across the board. After an initial wave of panic grocery shopping, discretionary spending fell and consumers began searching for products and services to meet their needs closer to home. We saw this trend reflected in the keywords local consumers

Read More

How Financial Services Brands Are Using Online Reviews to Build Trust

By |2020-07-13T09:18:58-07:00July 13, 2020|

Trade war concerns, uncertainty over Federal Reserve rate policy, mid-year market panic, and a sharp decline in the Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index kept financial services brands and their customers on their toes throughout 2019. Even before COVID-19 hit, experts had predicted that the financial services industry was in for a similarly bumpy ride in

Read More

Businesses May Now Respond to Google Reviews Again After Temporary Hiatus

By |2020-07-20T15:52:24-07:00April 8, 2020|

Update: As of  July 14, 2020, all reviews across all categories, including healthcare and medical, that were held during the period of time when Google reviews were temporarily suspended, are now appearing on GMB listings. Local SEOs have pointed out that they have started to see reviews for the healthcare industry appear once again. The healthcare

Read More

5 Key Local Reviews Opportunities for Enterprise Brands

By |2020-02-25T09:35:36-08:00February 25, 2020|

Reviews are hugely impactful for local businesses at every stage of the consumer journey. Google’s heavy weighting of reviews as a local and organic ranking factor makes them a key aspect of your brand’s online visibility at the discovery stage. When customers are considering their local business options, 82% of consumers read online reviews (and

Read More

4 Industries Where Reviews Have the Biggest Impact on Revenue

By |2020-02-06T12:48:12-08:00February 6, 2020|

Consumers do not make purchasing decisions in a vacuum. Instead, they look to the experiences of others to inform their choices. Indeed, 72% of consumers begin their journey by looking at reviews and will not continue until they get a sense of brand sentiment for a given business. This trend applies to enterprises and small

Read More

7 Phrases to Use When Replying to Customer Complaints

By |2020-01-07T13:03:04-08:00January 7, 2020|

In this post, you will learn ehy you should strategically focus on responding to negative feedback about your brand, how to approach your response when a customer is dissatisfied, specific phrases that make a customer feel heard and valued, and why negative feedback may hold insight you can use to improve your business.

Read More

From SERPs to Sales: How Reviews Impact Your Performance

By |2019-07-02T11:33:20-07:00April 30, 2019|

Replying to all reviews is a major part of reputation management. Consumers are 15 times more likely to consider a review helpful if it includes a brand response. If you are serious about boosting your local marketing strategy, take a look at these statistics we have compiled in our infographic regarding search results and reviews.

Read More