Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Public Relations: How to Deal with a Bad Review

Nowadays, a bad review can go very far. The column inches in the paper is not the end of a bad review as the parameters stretch further than this. In today’s digital age, face-to-face communication becomes less important. ‘Face-to-face’ today means the image you portray to your customers when in the public domain. This is why many companies invest in website optimisation and online advertising to ensure that their reputation remains clean.
 
If you’ve been doing business long enough, then there’s bound to be a number of reviews about you. Unfortunately, there might be reviews that have the potential to be detrimental that they feel like they’re bashing your business down to the ground. These are the ones you need to keep an eye out for.

You’ve probably heard the old business saying that goes, ‘A happy customer will tell three people about you while an unhappy customer will tell fifteen.’ Guess what? In the Internet age, that fifteen translates to millions.

Fortunately, there are steps you can take to manage negative publicity. One of the most important is to review your business practices and processes that led to the bad review. You need to ensure that you improve whatever practice or process needs changing so that no customer of yours should ever have to endure that type of bad experience again. You can then make these changes public with the help of a reliable PR Agency.

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