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Reputation Management Case Study
How We Helped the Kern County Scottish Society Manage their Online Reputation
The Kern County Scottish Society (KCSS) was in a PR crisis and only had less than one week to fix it. KCSS recounts the story of how Lancer Media, in one week, pushed all negative publicity off of the front page of Google and saved the Scottish Games.
The Backstory
The previous year, KCSS' annual Bakersfield (CA) Scottish Games had unjustly earned a bad reputation after a hate group had caused a disruption at the event. Their group of volunteers had temporarily fixed the security problem and had made extra efforts to demonstrate to the community that the Scottish Games were indeed diverse and that they welcomed all ethnicities to the cultural celebration. KCSS learned, however, that this disruption was only the beginning.
This year, the hate group had successfully co-opted the name of the Scottish Games for use on their website so that their group would appear above or below KCSS' website whenever the Games were Googled. After seeing this, the community reacted in panic. Sponsors of the Scottish Games threatened to pull their financial support and ticketholders debated whether to attend at all.
The Solution As Recounted By KCSS
Eight days prior to the Scottish Games, we, the Kern County Scottish Society, Googled reputation management companies, found Lancer Media, Inc. listed in the SERPs and left a message requesting immediate assistance for our online reputation management issue. Within a couple of hours, Fred Palmerino returned our call. Twenty-four hours later, he devised a custom and creative plan on how to pour positive information about our group onto the Internet.
Within 48 hours, positive PR on commercial websites, blogs, forums, and personal websites started to separate the KCSS' good name from the negativity that had plagued us the previous year and in the days leading up to this year's Games.
LancerMedia.com did not let up on their PR offensive. Rather, the website optimization and reputation management firm worked tirelessly through the weekend and during the early parts of the week pouring credible press releases onto the Internet that successfully separated our name from any hate group in time for the Games.
In the end, the Bakersfield Scottish Games were a success.
For those of you interested in statistics, let us give you some numbers. Prior to Lancer Media's reputation management efforts, our search listing, which appeared on the front page of Google for keyphrases related to the Games, was within four (4) search results of the hate group's website. After 48 hours of working with Lancer Media, our link was separated by eight (8) listings, and after 72 hours, the hate group website listing was relegated to the 2nd page, clear away from our good name. A combination of radio, television, and newspaper ads combined with the incredible work of Lancer Media also increased our website traffic by 63% for this time period, year-over-year. KCSS needed immediate help mananging their internet reputation and found it in Fred Palmerino, President/CEO of Lancer Media.
How Easy Is It to Damage a Well-earned Reputation?
Social networks, blogs, forums and reviews are advanced, accepted and quick methods of promoting corporate brands, personal reputations, products, services and ideas to the general online public in a short amount of time. Social networks are now the predominant medium used to communicate messages, thoughts and opinions. Not all messages, thoughts and opinions are positive. Blogs are online diaries where authors can wax poetic about any topic on any given day. Some blogs are topic specific but most vary in topic from day to day. Forums encourage stream of conscience writing but differ from blogs in two marked ways: first, they encourage written conversation and feedback, and second, they are category- or topic-specific.
Defend and Manage Your Online Reputation
Because we understand the true nature, nuances and complexities of "Search" as well as Social Networking, Lancer Media, Inc. is used by corporations, organizations and individuals to defend and manage their reputations.
Most of the time, blogs are positive essays on life topics ranging from product analyses to political views to general news editorials to favorite bands and music. There are instances, however, when those views can become negative online assaults on corporate brand and personal (individual) reputations. Forums are no different: since online forums encourage multi-directional conversation, the propensity for assaults on corporate brand reputation or personal reputations in this medium is great, as well. Since bad news travels quicker than positive news, a bad reputation for service, product, reputation, history or values could damage and negatively affect current partnershps, future business sales, business perception, business brand name, as well as friendships and family unity.
Your (Temporarily) Damaged Reputation Makes You Feel Violated, Cheated, Surprised, Hurt
If you are suffering from a damaged online reputation, we invite you to talk with us about our custom reputation management methodology. As you have read above, it worked for the Kern County Scottish Society and it's worked for many other businesses, groups and especially individuals over the past years. We know how you feel: alone in an online world you don't quite understand, violated as if someone or some people have just robbed you of a possession and a bit uncomfortable because people tend to believe what they read from any public source be it the search listings, a blog post, or a tweet.
We'll develop a comprehensive search engine reputation management campaign to fix and repair your hard earned name and brand reputation.
We Fix, Repair & Manage Your Corporate or Personal Online Reputation
For years, Lancer Media has been ahead of the curve by employing holistic website optimization as well as advanced viral and social media marketing techniques to manage, monitor and control damaged corporate brand identities and personal reputations on the internet. The intention is simple: wipe away or push negative content about a corporation, person or group off the front page of the search engines organic listings and replace it with updated content that reflects your true, current identity.
Our effective online reputation management methodology focuses on more than social networks, internet blogs and forums. We also develop public relations content for video-sharing sites, community websites, internet discussion boards and online newsgroups, all of them important and well-regarded properties that are available to us to fix, repair, defend and manage your damaged reputation.
We are quick to respond to your needs and we're easy to talk with. You'll see that the results of our online reputation management efforts manifest in very short timeframes. Feel free to call us at 818.914.4122 or complete our Contact Form.
If you'd like to know how our Internet Marketing Solutions can grow your business through search engine optimization, social media marketing, human factors optimization, website design and online business strategy consulting, please give us a call at 818.914.4122 or send an email to info@LancerMedia.com.
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