Enhance Your Success - Build Your Online Reputation
Quick Question?
Which is the single important factor that will determine your success in career, your ability to get new customers or job, your ability to find right life-partner, your company's ability to find new staff members or vendors, your ability to find new friends or raise finance for your projects?
Single Magical Factor is YOUR REPUTATION.
No one knows who you REALLY are. Most people have limited time to find your real values, your interests, your successes or your traits.
People will relate to you based on the reputation you have created.
Let us do a quick experiment :
Mentally scan universe of your family & friends and think of the most dependable and reliable person. Think of a person who respects you and respects his or her promise. Identify someone who will fulfill his/her commitment and empower you.
You certainly found one or two person. You probably knows hundreds or thousands of people.
Person who found as Reliable as build his reputation as Reliable & Dependable person. Let us call this Your Reliable Connection.
I don't know you and I certainly don't know Your Reliable Connection. However, I can say certain things about person who exists as Reliable for you. This person:
1) Will respect his/her promise and fulfill on the promises given.
2) He/she will have stable relationships. He will follow relatively fixed and predictable life routine.
3) He/she will have strong mind, self-control & clear vision for future.
4) This person will not be debt-ridden, unorganized or a beggar. He/she will be organized, conscious and self-aware. He/she will have reasonable success in the world.
Reliable individuals create strong reputation.
Now consider this thought experiment - If people in your life try to identify most reliable person in their circle, will you top the list? Are you the most reliable person for people in your life, your family and your friends?
If you are not, you will miss out on opportunities that reliable people get!
Start considering your reputation. Your actions, your communications and your results will either create or damage your reputation.
You operate within the field of your reputation. What you can speak and what you can do is determined by the kind of reputation you enjoy. The way people react to you, relate with you and speak with you depends on the image they carry about you.
It is time to get present and responsible for the reputation you create.
Start with your online reputation. Check:
What you are posting? Who are you following? What do you like or comment on? What messages are you forwarding? What your customers and friends are commenting? Are you tracking comments about your company on social media, review sites? What is the feedback customers give you?
Your action & your words creates your online reputation.
Take an inventory of your and your company's online & social media practices.
Create comprehensive plan. Here are some Dos and Donts
1) Decide on the type of reputation you wish to create.
2) Post unique & consistent messages that create value.
3) Post messages consistent with your values and interests.
4) Avoid online arguments with people who don't share your values or interests.
5) Treat everyone with respect.
6) Don't be impulsive and random.
Take responsibility of your online reputation.
Start using social media and online reputation to your advantage.
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Create an awesome reputation in 2020 & beyond!!
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