Need a reputation protection specialist in China? Keep this in mind

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In this post I will try to give you inspiration with new and fresh approaches to keep the fun going.

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Is there any difference when using a reputation protection specialist in China compared to working with this internally?

Should you hire professionals from a reputation protection specialist in China or can one just as well use internal resources at the house to handle reputation protection in the firm?The questions you need to ask yourself needs to be addressed in a thorough way. In this article I will highlight some of the things you should be aware of before deciding whether a reputation protection specialist is needed or whether it is better using internal staff in the company at the local branch office in China.

Use of internal employees in China to manage projects outsourced to the reputation protection specialist

Often, people in the China-department can have broader knowledge of what is going on locally than what is reasonable to expect from a reputation protection specialist far away or what the people at the headquarters of your organization are aware of. However, this does not necessarily mean that it is good use of resources to engage internal human resources locally in relation to the reputation protection specialist. Below I will highlight some of the things that need to be discussed.

The project you are thinking of setting out to a reputation protection specialist can be time consuming and difficult to learn, but it can be well worth the time and resources used

Putting the work out to a reputation protection specialist can certainly pay off, but it is still important that there are available resources that can handle this in a proper way on the part of the organization. If you already have limited resources, it is unlikely that this type of task will receive sufficient focus and attention from company staff without adequate resources to handling the reputation protection. The reputation protection specialist knows that these things require a lot of attention and dedication and are knowledge-intensive, so they have dedicated the resources needed to handle the project in a proper and professional way. I have always been of the opinion that it is you who know your product and your market best, so if you have the resources needed, it is definitely the best thing to do it yourself. This is something that must be carefully considered before making a decision on how to proceed with reputation protection.

Good reputation protection tools

There are some things you need to be aware of when using a reputation protection specialist – whether this is handled by your department in China, or centrally at the headquarter. Below is a handy checklist of things you need to think about, as well as the best tools you can use for either free or commercial tools where free alternatives are not available or significantly inferior to the commercial ones.

Majestic.com

Majestic SEO is the world’s largest link index. Use this tool to find out everything of interest about links to your own pages and what your competitors locally in China are doing, or what national and international competitors are up to. Links to your website and subpages are crucial to your search engine rankings, so this is important to keep tabs on.

Ranks.nl

Ranks.nl has a bunch of professional SEO tools that I can really recommend. One of the tools I use most is Page Analyzer. With this tool, you can check keyword density on each subpage of your domain to optimize for keywords or phrases. If the reputation protection specialist you are planning to use is at all professional, they probably use the tools available from ranks.nl – or similar tools extensively.

Google Alerts

To be on top of things, it is important to know what happens as early as possible. Google Alerts sends you an email every time someone mentions the words and phrases you specify. This can be anything from trademarks that are important to you, people of interest or general words and phrases that are important to your business. You can have alerts for all employees, freelancers you use, your trademarks including websites you run and words and phrases you focus on. All of this gives you a good overview of what is being talked about that matters internally. Google’s notification is free to use and helps you to be early in terms of being on top of what your competitors in China are doing, potential public relations disasters in the form of negative reviews and much else useful.

Need help deciding whether to use a reputation protection specialist or manage the project yourself?

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