Fan following does not only mean those people who like you or admire you. On the Internet, your fans are the people who can be your potential customers. So interacting with them and making a good impression is not just your need, but your lifeline. Creating goodwill among the users on the Internet is rather a simple task. The difficult part is to keep up to it. Most business companies are able to create awareness about themselves and their product and a good impression on the public, but eventually fail to keep their customers interested with latest happenings or events.
On the Internet, people tend to forget you quite easily. With competitors trying too hard and new companies emerging every day in the market, you have to be on your toes every moment. Reputation management is one task that may help you with all this. Even if you do not want to do this on your own, many online companies provide you with such services. Hiring them is the best possible option. They not only keep a check on your goodwill among the people but also monitor what is being said about you or your product on the Internet.
Ways in which you can Increase your reputation
Reputation is something that can be considered as the lifeline of your business. It is actually even more important when you talk about Internet. Managing or increasing your company’s reputation among the public involves some simple strategies or techniques. These are as follows :
1) Awareness – Creating awareness about you or your product is one thing. What is more important is that you should be aware of what is being said about you on the Internet. Making yourself aware of the public opinion is one of the most important things to do if you want to enhance your reputation. You can not respond to people’s problems or appreciation till you do not know what they think about you.
2) Attention – The next part is to grab people’s attention. You should be aware of how many people know you on the Internet. It is better if more people know who you are and also know what you do. Make them follow you, admire you and like you. Try to be informal whenever needed. While selling something, building relationships is the best way.
3) Blogging / SEO – Blogging and search engine optimization are closely related. Blogging lets people know you and generates traffic for your website so that people have an idea about what you do and what your thoughts are on a particular subject. Search engine optimization helps you to use keywords efficiently in a way that people visit your website quite often.
4) Social networking – There are a number of social networking websites which help in reputation management. As the name suggests, these websites help you to interact with people. They help you in a better understanding of your potential customers and let them understand you better. Interacting with people on social networking websites lets you build relationships and create awareness about yourself which is positive. You may even monitor the work of your competitors through these websites.
Sachin is an Australian freelance writer and journalist. He writes extensively in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the US. He’s published more than 500 articles about various topics, including computer support.
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Azam
May 17, 2012 at 2:15 am
Today the success of online business man is because of how many likes he has on any social network.This is one of the main aspect for online success.
TracyAnn0312
May 17, 2012 at 6:25 am
Blogging and social networking can help you increase you fan because they are the one that can help you to get appropriate people to help you in order to get sufficient traffic for your blog. Thanks for sharing the ideas about it.
David
May 17, 2012 at 10:04 am
If you manage to create a reputation for your site half your work is done. But creating a reputation is not so easy. Even if you manage to grab eyeballs with a whacky blog, maintaining that standard is very hard. You really have to work hard and smart to for creating a reputation. It takes a long time before that happens, so you have to be very patient and not give up when you hit a bump or two. These pointers will definitely help you start up.
Prakash
May 17, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Blogging and social networking are the nice ways for increasing fan following on the internet.
And its essential to learn how to use them effectively.
Roger Telstar
May 17, 2012 at 3:12 pm
This is such a useful post. I’ll try and use these tips wisely and can hopefully build a good reputation for myself.
Thanks for sharing.
-Roger
Daniel
May 17, 2012 at 8:34 pm
I am agree with you in 100%, very helpful post with a tips which can help to get more attantion of users. Thanks for sharing.
Thomas
May 19, 2012 at 7:26 am
Creating goodwill and brand is very important to make your product sell on internet. Every bloggers needs or want to increase their fan following to make their blog famous and a brand on internet. It’s an important for marketing of the blog for the future. The ways you mention to increase the fan are really very useful. I would love to use it for my blogs. Thanks for sharing useful blog.
Jackson
May 19, 2012 at 10:16 am
Goodwill and brand is very important for building reputation of your blog. The ways you have mention are very useful and need to be consider before going on internet and building fan is very important is necessary to enjoy long life on internet.
Alec Farell
May 19, 2012 at 1:54 pm
I’ll try to follow your advice, build and keep a good reputation for my eCommerce site. I think it won’t be that hard if I keep in mind those four steps. Thank you for sharing them with us!
Quant
May 21, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Internet is a big medium and we see larger population engaged directly or indirectly to the internet. Internet is giving them big medium and good connectivity. Awareness about your blog is very important for increasing you fan following. I would use your points to increase my blogs fan following which will help me to make some loyal readers.
Ashok
November 14, 2012 at 3:35 am
With so many people trying to attract business on the Internet, it is of importance that you must have your own existence and fan following online so that you look apart from the crowd. it is a useful article from that perspective.
Jeff
April 3, 2013 at 3:04 pm
This is something I consistently struggle with. It seems like a never ending mission.