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Happy holidays from Velvet Talk Management
Velvet Talk Management wants to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy new year or, to be more politically correct and inclusive, happy Christmahanukwanzakkus. Good health and good online reputation to you in the new year. The VTM team.
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Lindsay Lohan found dead in Los Angeles home: drugs suspected
This is the kind of headline that really grabs attention. And many might not be too surprised to read it. After all, nobody could accuse Lindsay Lohan of leading a safe and boring life. Her reputation as a party girl … Continue reading
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Tagged comeback, dead, death, drugs, Lindsay Lohan, Reputation
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This week’s most heavily criticized companies online
Here is this week’s list of organizations that need to quickly engage an Online Reputation Management consultant and customer service auditor to mitigate the damage to their reputations online before it’s too late and others speak up too. You may want to … Continue reading
ORM Tip of the week: How to do online reputation management
Set up a company in your own name at your local government office: For example, John Doe Consulting. You don’t have to conduct any business with it and its cheap to set up a sole proprietorship. Now register this company … Continue reading
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Search data shows English speaking world becoming more loving
Interesting data from Google Trends comparing the search terms of “I hate” and “I love” (in blue and red, respectively) seems to indicate that the English speaking world is becoming a more loving place, despite the recent recession and other … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, friendliness, Google, happiness, Internet, search engine data, society, success, trends
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Is the Web becoming what one 5-year-old calls the Inter-Not?
Google “I hate the Internet” and you’ll get over 1.4 million results. Then search for “I hate Twitter” – 163,000 results. “I hate Facebook”? 1.1 million. That’s a lot of people tiring of The Web. By comparison, searching for “I … Continue reading
The best online reputation management organizations
Most online reputation management companies operate primarily by writing positive articles about a client (a person or company) to push negative online mentions of their names off the first page of search engines. They then optimize the pages on which … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, Internet Marketing, online reputation management, ORM, reputation repair, Search Engines, SEO
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Language-poor CEOs should step aside, no matter how “brilliant”
In a recent blog post on Harvard Business Review (see link below), management coach Stever Robbins asserts that CEOs of start-ups must communicate regularly to maintain forward momentum in their companies. True enough, I suppose, but there’s an important caveat that … Continue reading
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Is bragging out of control online?
Just a thought, and wondering if others have felt the same way, but with Linkedin et al, the number of braggarts seems to be growing exponentially as the global Internet continues to intensify competition. It’s such a turn off; and not just about the individual, … Continue reading