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One of your primary goals as a business is to make sure that you keep your reputation solid and untarnished. With the existence of different forms of media and broadcasting, the most harmful way to hurt your reputation is through cyberspace. A simple article posted on a blog, a simple video uploaded on YouTube, a review pasted on a website – these are just simple forms of providing your company with defamation of character. If you are not cautious enough, your business is simply bait for those who are willing to taint your reputation through slander and libel.

So question is who could actually do this to your company? Honestly, anybody. These hurtful comments could actually come from people you know. A former employee perhaps. Or a customer. Even those companies that you are competing with. With a simple click of a button, you are basically vulnerable to character defamation.

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It is no wonder that protecting brand and company reputation online has become a preoccupation for many brand managers and corporate PR heads. It only takes a few minutes of offensive online content to be read by millions and unless you are vigilant enough to spot and recognize them, the damage could be done long before you could do anything about it. So what can brand managers and conscious PR executives do to protect and manage online reputation?

So what are the things you can do to manage online reputation? One of the options would be to do nothing. You can just let time pass by and do its job. It is a passive way of dealing and solving the problem, and is not a solution.

Secondly, you can opt to take legal action against the person accountable for spreading the negative information about you. Aside from possible monetary compensation if you win the case, you can have the content taken down. However, this option can be expensive and time-consuming with no guarantee that your case gets resolved in your favor.

Lastly, you can go by the way of reputation management. Use the same techniques by your competitor and try to beat them at their own game. These methods are called search engine reputation management.

If search engine optimization provides you with the option to ensure that your presence in cyberspace is felt by snagging the topmost search ranks for that particular keyword, search engine reputation management goes further than that. It knocks a specific search results downwards so it cannot be seen by someone who is searching for that keyword. You can do this to sites that have made derogatory comments about your brand and your company. Drag the site, the article, the blog post, down to the bottom so it won’t affect your brand. Since this requires an expert, you can tap a company that specializes in reputation management repair services. These professionals will do the job for you.

If you think that online image and brand protection is not important, then think again! It’s one of the things that can make or break the business you’ve worked so hard to build. There’s no perfect time than now to have a contingency plan so you can keep your reputation intact and protected.

A Great Network Marketer

At a recent company event, my mentor Randy Gage reviewed the qualities of a great Network Marketer. I was so proud to be a part his great team and vowed to implement these qualities in myself and throughout my team! I took away so many crucial techniques to building a successful network marketing business, but I decided to start here!

A Great Leader Make a Great Network Marketer

Great Leaders attract followers. They do as they say they are going to do and they set an example. See a great leader and follow them!

Real network marketing leaders possess 7 dynamic qualities and actions they implement in their organizations. These are qualities and actions that only 3% of our industry implements daily and in order to join those ranks, we all need to listen, learn & implement! They are not hard to implement, but they will take consistency in teaching to our team. Here they are!

1. Feed Your Dream Daily – have a dream board, vision board, prosperity board, call it what you may, but have pictures of those goals you are working towards. Things you want, places you want to go, people you want to help, promotions you are working towards in your company, achievements you wish to earn you get the point. Whatever your ‘Why’ is, whatever your passion is, have it on your board. Keep it in your bathroom so you look at it every morning and every night before bed. It’s the first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see when you go to bed. If this sounds a little corny to you, well then, honey, don’t read any further because I will tell you, you’re not a leader. Leaders self-develop, leaders learn about success and the pathway to success. EVERY single book, CD, video, heck, every successful person on Earth will tell you, they had their goals in front of them everyday. If you refuse to do this, go back to your job and start working really hard for a raise because that is your destiny.

Quality #2 – A Wide Organization is a Solid Organization – Why? The fact of the matter is building wide allows us to sort through our team to find the all-stars. You will find that as you personally sponsor team members, you will have those to talk a big game and end up doing nothing. Or, they find EVERY single thing to complain about. Or, they will search to find why this won’t work. In between those, there will be those all-stars. They don’t need a lot of guidance. They plug into trainings, events and seminars and implement what is learned. They call when they have legitimate questions and to give good news, but then they are off! Our job is to build wide to sort out our all-stars!

#3 – Tap Root Your Depth – You have found the Diamonds in your team, now it is time for you to help them find the leaders and diamonds on their team. When we teach our Diamonds how to train and develop their Diamonds, we are spreading a culture amongst the team. As your depth grows, your trained leaders will keep duplicating building a sustainable, productive organization! So, this is where your companies’ compensation plan is critical! Your compensation plan better reward this behavior and pay multiple levels down into your organization! When this happens you and your team have a vested interest in tap rooting your organization!

4. Be Prime in Prime Time – The best time to make phone calls, connections, host business overviews, etc. is from 6 – 10 p.m. If you’re not liking that, well then, you’re not a leader because you’re not willing to sacrifice the prime hours for your business. Remember, ‘short term sacrifices lead to long term results!’ You sacrifice 6 – 10 p.m. Monday through Friday for 2 – 3 years and you won’t have to worry about times away from family ever again! Besides, do you think Bill Gates, Oprah, or Warren Buffet built their wealth working Monday – Friday 9 – 5? Get out of the ‘employee mentality’ and into an ‘Entrepreneur’s mentality!’ Entrepreneurs love what they do and don’t care what time it is!

5. Follow Winners, Not Losers! – O.K., kind of obvious, right? Wrong. How many people do you know that when you ask how they are, they give you the rundown of all that is wrong in their life. Why do we continue to see these people regularly and ask them how they are doing? It’s an obvious fact to remove yourself from this person, but many don’t. They feel bad and try to be the person to cheer them up. For-get it! From this day on, erase them from your life! Surround yourself with people who are enjoying life, who are exciting to talk to, who share positive experiences, who are MILLIONAIRES! Mom was right! You are who you hang out with. If you hang with people who are broker then you, either be cool with staying broke, or find some new friends! Where you ask? Figure it out – a leader would!

Quality #6: When You Feel Fear, Profess Faith – Fear is a seriously unfortunate thing in our profession. It cripples people from achieving great things, when all it is is ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’ It’s fake, it’s not real, its simply our subconscious manifesting emotional barriers that give you unrealistic feedback. When this feeling creeps up, have faith in yourself, have faith in your abilities, have faith in your skills!

7. Sew the Dream – create a culture of these steps on your team. Culture amongst your team is EVERYTHING!!! Your team will do, produce and say what you do, produce and say! Your culture should be positive, professional, accountable, emotionally intelligent, but also open to coaching and constructive criticism. When you help others sew their dreams, what happens? You guessed it, your dream is sewn as well! That is the beauty of this great profession! I love it!!

There they are. The 7 steps to becoming a Great Network Marketer! Without following this blueprint, our teams will not grow productively. Randy Gage is a network marketing genius. When he speaks, we should listen…and implement. Keep these 7 steps in front of you. Nurture these steps to grow a culture within your organization. With that, I will leave you with one final thought Randy shared, ‘I will do today what others won’t so I can have tomorrow what others can’t!