Reputation is the most important factor in the long term success of any and all of your marketing efforts. Your reputation is remade each day with everyone your business interacts with. In reality you are not limited to one business reputation, but many reputations that arise in the minds of clients with whom you interact in the course of your business movements. Equally important to understand that you have a reputation with those who have no experience with your business but know of you from others.

You may know Joan Jett's tune from the old days called 'Bad Reputation.' Joan was a famous musician of her time, but she also had a knack for marketing. She positioned herself as the bad girl of rock, and the song 'Bad Reputation' was wildly popular. In the ever rebel-dominated world of alternative rock, a woman glorying in her bad reputation was in demand. She probably lied a little with the words 'I don't give a damn about my bad reputation' as she obviously thought a lot about her bad reputation, it was her marketing strength! She harnessed that reputation to achieve lasting fame.

Unluckily for many of us, a low reputation does not stand as a desirable marketing tool to develop our business. The only exceptions outside of musicians might be trial lawyers, repo men, or bail bondsmen who are known and valued for their dangerous air and fearsome reputation. For the rest of the world it just doesn't work that way.

You need to be very aware that everything you do, and everything your employees do, for your business gives shape to your reputation. Business has no Mulligans. You can strive to correct things that might have wronged your business reputation. In fact, correcting problems properly can prove to be the silver lining. However, you can't change the memory of the events that caused someone to take a low view of your company.

Every interaction you have with people you encounter in your business has one of three outcomes in relation to your reputation. Of these outcomes, two that are not desirable, the other one is excellent!

The first is an experience you have with a customer, or potential customer, in which you don't make any serious mistakes, but you also don't stand out from competitors. You may not think this is the worst outcome, but it isn't far from it. At best, you will be considered ordinary in the customer's mind. The customer will either forget you in the future, or consider you a business that was all right last time.

The next outcome happens when you, or your employee, has erred massively enough to make sure the customer feels a burning anger toward you. This is the worst case scenario for your business. Along with chasing away a customer, you have make sure you have also lost those who learn of your business through that client. The negative potential is enormous. If you as a business owner are aware that you have allowed this to happen, then you certainly deserve the impact it has upon your business. Yet a great many times the business owner knows nothing of what has occurred if the problem was the employee's mistake, or out of their own interactions with the customer. Don't believe that dissatisfied clients will make time to announce what occurred. Many times they simply never return and you have no way to fix it. If you uncover the problem, but neglect to fix it, then again you deserve the poor reputation it makes. However, if you take the opportunity to go correct the issue, you will have used a wonderful chance in business - to show a customer that you value their loyalty and are willing to do what it takes to display interest.

The third outcome is what all business owners should seek in each and every interaction with others. Your goal is make the customers, and potential customers, believe that not only do you provide first rate products or services, but that you care deeply about how services or materials meet a need of the customer. It all focuses on building a lasting relationship with your clients so that they know you will always focus on filling their needs. When you achieve this goal you have formed a loyal customer who's value goes way beyond any purchase they make.

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