Online Reputation Management for Dummies Book Review
You are very welcome. It's so important for us all to keep on top of our own reputations.
How often have you Googled someone before you met them in person for the first time? Our online reputation often precedes us. It is so important, but many people do not know how to manage it. You do not want to leave your reputation up to others.
The Online Reputation Management for Dummies book by Lori Randall Stradtman will show you in plain english how to manage what others see about you online.
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Online Reputation Management for Dummies
Online Reputation Management for Dummies is broken down to 6 parts.
Part 1 starts out by showing you what your online reputation is and how to plan to manage it.
Part 2 explains how to put together a team to help you manage your online reputation. This section is geared more for companies or people who can afford to hire others to help, but there is good information that is pertinent to anyone.
Part 3, Listening is Love, shows you the tools you will use to manage your online reputation. She also explains how to set up those tools. There is a really good chapter called, “Researching Your SEO Keywords,” and I learned a lot in this chapter. This is a must read chapter!
Part 4 goes through establishing your reputation. She gives shows you how to give your brand a voice and use the online tools to establish your reputation. Chapter 13 goes through using visuals in managing your online reputation. This is an important chapter now that the internet is becoming very visual.
Part 5 is one that we need to know, but hope we never need, dealing with a crisis. It’s better to learn how to handle the crisis before you are in a crisis.
Part 6 is the Part of Tens that you find in all for Dummies books. A lot of awesome ideas in this last chapter.
Overall, I felt the book was geared more towards companies or large brands, but there were so many ideas that anyone can use whether a company or person. Definitely worth a read for anyone who is online.
Read a sample chapter of Online Reputation Management for Dummies.
Disclosure: I received the Online Reputation Management for Dummies book in exchange for this review. All opinions are 100% my own.
Let’s Talk About Online Reputation Management for Dummies!
Do you currently manage your online reputation? And if so, how?
I have been reading a lot about Reputation Management these days and it is one of the areas of importance in the present time. I will surely check this book out. Looks great to me. Thanks for sharing, Michele.
You are very welcome. It’s so important for us all to keep on top of our own reputations.
This just shows that online reputation management is needed for individuals as well as businesses for many reasons.
I already know a lot about reputation management, but you can never know enough. I will check out this book. Thanks for the article!
I have been reading a lot about Reputation Management these days and it is one of the areas of importance in the present time. I will surely check this book out. Looks great to me. Thanks for sharing, Michele.
actually, its up to google, follow google they say, trend indicate that google+ will be use, so, better have a good one, about the the dummies books, i think they are doing a good job, explaining the basics 😉
Actually, most social media networks don’t show up on Google, so if you’re waiting for news about you or your brand to hit google before you react, you’re already sunk. Google+ is awesome, but by no means the only social network people share on.
Thanks so much, Michele! Am glad you enjoyed some tips and tricks.