Archive for the ‘Reputation management’ Category

How to monitor blogs: it’s about knowing the questions you want answered

December 28th, 2006 — Mark

When we first speak with a brand manager or a PR person they normally ask us these questions:
“What are people saying about my brand in blogs?”
“Can you help me monitor that?”
We say: we can help you monitor blogs, but first you need to do to help us define the questions you want answered. Monitoring [...]

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Blogging4business

October 30th, 2006 — Mark

On Wednesday I presented at a fascinating training morning run by e-Consultancy’s Craig Hanna along with Blogging4business’s Matthew Yeomans. The agenda was to educate the audience about blogging as a phenomenon and to give them a sense of what it could teach them about their own customers and how they could use blogging and [...]

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Can you blog your way out of a crisis?

October 30th, 2006 — Mark

I am addressing a CBI conference this week in Birmingham, UK, where the agenda is to discuss Crisis Management and digital media.
When we established Market Sentinel two years ago we thought that online monitoring and response would be a leading part of crisis management. As time has gone on and we have learnt [...]

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Why is consumer-generated commentary so negative?

October 26th, 2006 — Mark

A client, reviewing some of the sentiment scores on the net approval work we have been doing for them recently asked: “why are these people so negative? We don’t get these scores from our off-line net promoters work.”
The client was identifying a pattern we see quite regularly. Online commentary is more negative than [...]

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Brand audit

October 24th, 2006 — Mark

A lot of people visit this site on the search term “brand audit”. Even with the miracles of Google analytics it isn’t always possible to tell who they are and what they are looking for. If you came here searching on “brand audit” or you are a brand owner interested in “buzz tracking”, [...]

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