Till the last decade, top corporations and Individuals reputation are managed by paid media agencies across the globe which creates a perception of companies which they want to showcase to customers, employees, shareholders or to anyone else out there. These companies have a strong hold with media agencies to proactively approach for potential liabilities and negative campaigns. When it comes to online reputation management it’s vastly different and much more volatile and contagious that you can never escape. It shows both sides of the coin which use both online and offline media. It’s human psychology to see first thing negative than to see positive. If negative things coming next to your name or brand on a popular search engine it will become a nightmare altogether. Anyone searching for the first time and seeing those negative things about you or your business will get a negative perception about you or your business. Perceived reputation and business loss cannot even be calculated.

Online media is amalgamation and combination of real time activities on social media platforms, online group communities, blogging via personal or professional, online news, content marketing and mailing lists. Online media transmits globally to a wide audience. Very popular English proverb “Even a very good thing will have to be made public, to be acclaimed by people” in the online world “Even a very small bad thing will have to be addressed, else it will be criticized by people”. If it remains there it is contagious and will make a very bad perception about you or your business.