Recession Proof Marketing - Look Online to Grow Your Business

Its happening everywhere. Stocks are on the decline, earnings reports are bad, people are being laid off and this is all in big business. So your thinking to yourself how can I possibly weather this economic storm if I'm a small or medium size...

August 07, 2008

Reputation Management for C-Level Executives and beyond?

I recently signed on as the Sales Director for a start-up SEO Firm. My expertise is reputation management and I wanted to share my experiences about building our services from the ground up. Amazingly even in L.A. word of mouth marketing has worked...

July 22, 2008

Reputation Management for Teenagers?

I recently attended a dinner and encountered a situation in which I realized just how important reputation management for teenagers and young adults might be. The hosts of the party are long time family friends and both are local politicians. The...

July 15, 2008

Are you managing your online reputation or is it managing you?

Your company has experienced incredible growth over the last decade due to the incredible increase in connectivity and information sharing abilities of the internet. Your online sales have increased, your overall growth has increased, but at the...

June 30, 2008

How can I get higher placement in search engines?

Customer: "How can I get higher placement in search engines?"

May 16, 2008

Small Business Marketing - Local Search Engine Optimization

At Softline we work with allot of small and medium size business's so we are quite familiar with the fact that there audience may not be as geographically diverse as larger companies. In fact, a common question that comes up in our conversations...

May 12, 2008

Delta/Northwest merger means American and JetBlue had best manage their online reputation with fervor

"Americas premier global airline."

With the announcement of the confirmed Delta/Northwest merger the competition needs to surpass them online in order to maintain market share when this giant comes to life. No longer will an airline endure the...

April 22, 2008

Obamas team utilizes Search Engine Reputation Management

April 15, 2008

CNN: Presidential Candidates Reputation on the line ?

Just noticed a special investigation on CNN as I was walking through our building?s lobby and it appears the presidential candidates are finally entering the realm of Reputation Management. Well more like disaster control since I assume they never...

April 11, 2008

Starbucks - Experimenting with Reputation Management

There was an interesting article on Yahoo! news yesterday about how Starbucks launched a website to get feedback from its customers to improve the overall customer experience. While most people saw this as just another marketing gimmick I see it as...

April 09, 2008