Protect your online Reputation & Brand

The advent of the personnal computer has made life so much easier for billions of people across the globe. In fact, most people can't imagine what life was like before personnal computers.

When the internet and the computer joined forces it was truely a mind altering concept. This era, which is still unraveling, quickly became known as the Information Revolution. Suddenly sites like google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com and other search sites, became power houses on the internet became. Because of these colossus search engines, information was now available 24 hours a day 365 days a year, and it seemed that it was available at the speed of light. The capability of these search engines to retrieve information very quickly is great for students, scientist, doctors, politians and the military. The information Revolution spurned new business models and information about every and any thing became valuable. Soon it was being bought and sold online. Soon all anyone had to do was enter a search word or term into one of the search engines on any topic, and a plethora of information became available faster than one could blink their eyes.

With the availablity to instantly search for information came the ability to instantly add information. First via articles and article repositories, then through blogs. And it wasn't long before all types of customer review sites sprang up with their natural extension of the socalled complaint sites.

The problem with these complaint sites is that anyone can write anything they wamt to about anyone or any business at whim. It does not matter if what they write is true or not, once it's on the internet it can pose a real risk. In fact, the nastier and bigger the lie the faster it spreads across the web. This viral spreading of negative information can litally cause one to lose a job, not be hired, lose a mate, and possibly even get you arrested; guilty until proven innocent. Or, some of those making these posts could be a competing company or its employees, a disgruntled employee, an ex-wive, ex-friend or an unsatisfied customer. Some companies, including yours, coulbe be attacked by armies of groups opposed to their/your views and could even be backed by special interest or activist groups seeking to promote their own brand or political cause.

According to Michael Fertik, founder of ReputationDefender.com, as explained in an interview on CBS TV's The Early Show Saturday Edition, "It's estimated that more than 70 percent of employers do a Web search on job applicants as part of their hiring procedures. More than half of them admit to not bringing someone on board because of negative information they found online".

Source: "How To Protect, Fix Your Online Reputation"

Rep Guard is a service dedicated to helping individuals and small online businesses of all types, to quickly and affordably correct and management their online reputation and brand.

We do the tedious work of monitoring your reputation and of developing profiles for you on all of the major Social Networking and Social Media (Web 2.0 & 3.0) websites as well as creating blogs and or WiKi's to ensure you own your brand and what is said about you.

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