Reputation Audit
Reputation is no longer just something people work to develop in high school – now, it’s quickly become a factor that’s extremely relevant to the success of companies. Businesses with a positive reputation are able to appeal to customers and shareholders alike, enabling organizations to win more sales and encourage greater confidence from investors.
What is a reputation audit and why is it important?
A brand reputation audit analyzes mentions of a brand, company name, trend, event, or other specific topics. A social monitoring system collects the data into one place so it can be examined. A thorough audit provides insights for launching a new business or product as well as the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Your reputation audit can be an independent study or a supplement to offline analytics. As monitoring platforms become more sophisticated, companies have more opportunities to use audit data instead of conducting surveys. Audits are more reliable than surveys and focus groups because they use unfiltered opinions from a brand’s audience.
- Analyze customer relationships with the company. You will identify positive and negative comments about the brand in general as well as sentiment toward various specific criteria such as price, quality, and services. This helps you work out your customer’s pain points.
- Identify problems with business processes. For example, customers refusing to order again because a delivery person was rude.
- Identify new audience groups.
- Compare your brand to the competition.
- Analyze market leaders and outline development points for the brand.
- Identify user insights in order to improve products and prepare a content strategy or change brand positioning.
- Conduct market analysis before launching a new product and perhaps even predict emerging trends.
Brand monitoring lets you keep an eye on your brand’s reputation and stay on top of user comments that need a response by scanning mentions on a daily basis. Get a free quote now or start chat on Whatsapp!
Why is reputation management important for hotels?
There’s a ton of information available to buyers these days. It doesn’t matter the industry, there are reviews, guides, and walk-through videos to help consumers make decisions. So reputation management is important for most businesses.
But hotels have a few specific challenges:
Reviews are the norm now
Now, everyone‘s reviewing, all the time. Sites like Booking.com, TripAdvisor, and Yelp have made it easy to rate your latest night’s stay. And these reviews are an integral part of the purchase.
There’s so much choice
Your competitors are there for the world to see. And prospective customers won’t hesitate to choose a higher rated – or cheaper – alternative.
Customers trust reviews more than your website
It’s vital to protect your hotel’s reputation. And while review sites are probably going to be the first place you (and your customers) look, there’s also social media, news, and forums to contend with.
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How Siivo protect and improve your hotel’s reputation?
Prioritize review sites
As discussed, review sites should be your chief concern, especially those that also let the customer book. These include Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, and a constantly evolving roster of alternatives. You know that customers make their choices based on these. And compared with other media that affect your reputation, you have a good amount of control over them. And first, you need to know what’s being said.
Watch for negative reviews
If you’ve built a good name for yourself – and a good star rating to go with it – negative reviews can be particularly harmful. For one, reviews are typically listed in reverse chronological order (newest first). So when a harsh review is fresh, it’s also easy to find. It’s important to keep a close eye out for particularly negative reviews. the sooner you find them, the better your chances of improving the rating (more on this in a moment). Make sure you use a reputation management tool that will watch review sites for you, then be ready to pounce when negative comments are posted.
Respond quickly to the bad ones
It’s never nice when someone slams your business in public. A few seconds for them can turn into an ongoing headache for you and your team. And the reviewer either doesn’t care, or actually wants to cause you harm. While it’s tempting to return fire, there are actually positive things you can do improve the worst reviews. And it starts with a quick response.
Encourage happy guests to leave reviews
Here’s another positive step you can take to improve your reputation. If done respectfully, there’s nothing wrong with actually asking for reviews. It works in ecommerce, and it works for hotels too. The key is to explain how much a review would mean to you.When the customer feels they got to know you during their stay, a few moments to post a review isn’t really a burden.
Track social media
Review sites should be your main focus. But that doesn’t mean you can ignore all the other conversations, critiques, and complaints being posted online every day. These can be a valuable source of hotel feedback, and harmful comments will actively damage your reputation.
Find conversations you’d otherwise miss
This is the whole point of social listening. Social media has become such a broad, widespread behemoth, that it’s almost impossible to see everything said. And unfortunately, customers won’t always tag you in their Instagram and Facebook posts. Without the precious @ symbol, you’d likely never know they talked about you. Good social listening tools let us catch these mentions and respond right away.
Respond and help them resolve issues
A quick response should help this customer solve their issue. Not only will this help you fulfill a necessary customer service responsibility, it shows future customers that you’re responsive and willing to help.
Monitor competitors’ coverage as well
Wonder why people talk about the hotel next door, and not yours? Marketing isn’t magic, and they may be doing things that you can replicate. You just need to figure out their strategy.
Did you know, a huge 68% of users will often go straight to a business’s social media profile to read reviews. Whether your business sells a product or offers a service, customers online want to see real people talking about your brand. They want to see what you have to offer and if it’s worth their time and money.
If your business isn’t set up on social media and you feel your business could benefit from a strong social media strategy, get in touch with us for a chat