Whether you like it or not, your name is in fact a brand. It’s what people use to identify you when deciding to business, at least when it comes to doing business online, and it’s what they will use in order to search out positive or negative reviews about your online. Therefore the very definition of a brand.

So your name falls under brand protection for sure. It’s something you should be taking care of from day one. So let me ask you this. Do you own your name online?

By that I mean, are you doing whatever you can do own every aspect of your personal name and company name online? Let me go over a few points here and you’ll understand a little more clearly. › Continue reading…

Yup, a lot of you are starting out the new year pretty much the same as last year. With someone pulling you down in the search engine result pages. Bummer.

Because the New Year is about making new beginnings. A new start. So why not take the opportunity to do something about your online reputation this year? You don’t have to let negative comments and reviews continue to chop away at your bottom line. You don’t have to continue to let your prospective customers go on to your competition because of what they are reading online about you and your company.

Nope, you can put together a plan of action, and we can help. We can take that negative information in Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask and drive it right off the first page of the search results. We can also replace that information with some positive stuff designed to INCREASE your sales and help your bottom line.

All at prices you can afford.

So give us a call at 800-818-6286 or use the contact us link at the top of this page. Don’t let another year go by without doing something. You can change the situation you’re in, and we can help.

Well, can it be done? Can negative information really be removed from RipoffReport.com like so many companies claim?

Let’s take a look at what Ripoff Report themselves say about it:

Our Policy: Why We NEVER Remove Reports

Since the Ripoff Report was started in 1998, our policy has always remained the same ­­­– we never remove reports. We will not remove reports even when they are claimed to contain defamatory statements and even if the original author requests it. Some people have criticized this policy as being unfair, but we strongly feel this policy is essential, fair, and far better than the alternative – rampant censorship.

The reasons for our policy are simple.

First, this site is most effective when all complaints are maintained and preserved so that over time patterns of truly bad business practices are exposed. If we removed reports after a certain period of time, this would provide consumers with less information to use when evaluating a company. Unlike the Better Business Bureau (which deletes complaints after just 36 months), we maintain a permanent record of all complaints. This ensures that our viewers have more information rather than less.

Second, if we removed complaints on request this would give companies an incentive to pressure authors to remove true and accurate reports in exchange for money or simply to avoid a costly lawsuit. It’s a well-known fact that most people aren’t willing or able to spend $100k in legal fees defending a defamation lawsuit, so even when a person has written a 100% true report, there is a huge amount of pressure for them to just remove it when threatened with legal action.

That pretty well sums it up, doesn’t it? If not, you can visit their site and read the long version of this page, but I assure you, they are not going to remove negative information from any of the Ripoff Report pages. Not now, not ever. Because they don’t have to. The bottom line is that they are protected by law. So any company claiming that they can remove ripoff report information is flat out lying to you. They cannot.

What we can do is displace that information. In as short as 6 weeks we can move your ripoff report information from page one of the Google results.

Don’t get sucked in by scams claiming they can remove ripoff reports for any price. Do however do something about that negative ripoff report information and give our office a call at 800-818-6286. We can help your online reputation and we can stop ripoff report in their tracks.

Hotel owners and travel agents alike know how important it is to maintain a pristine reputation. If your hotel has a bad rep, your sales suffer.

Because the travel and accommodations market is so super competitive, it leaves hotel owners wide open to false claims and negative comments online. Even when they are completely invalid, they can really hurt a hotel and the hotel’s owner right where it counts. In the pocketbook.

Hotel review sites are all the rage these days. Coupled with the travel forums, negative commentary by travelers can absolutely ruin a hotel. › Continue reading…

We get a lot of email here from clients with reputation management issues. Many of the inquiries we get are questions on how a company or individual can be proactive when it comes to their online reputation. So, we wanted to put together some pointers in keeping your online reputation in check. A short list of the basics, things you can do yourself when it comes to what’s being said about you or your company online.

Here is a list of eight very simple, but very important online reputation management tips: › Continue reading…