The Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council, known as the Omnibus Directive, imposes many new obligations on entrepreneurs. Regarding consumer opinions and recommendations, the main focus is on the obligation to inform whether and how the company verifies the opinions shared on the website. In the article, together with the law firm KWKR Konieczny Wierzbicki and Partners, we provide advice on what to pay attention to in order to comply with the new regulations.
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The company's image is developed based on our experience with the brand. It's a mixture of consumers' associations with the brand, but also conscious creation of the company's image. Just like personality distinguishes us from others, the image of the company allows you to emphasize your unique identity. From the article, you'll learn how to create and make your image popular in order to shape a strong brand identity.
More than 97% of consumers regularly check online reviews. When they want to buy a product, they first make their choice based on information found online. Then they look for the best seller, using predictable criteria. An attractive price is only one of them. The second criterion concerns safety.
Austrian Psychologist, Paul Watzlawick, once stated that it is impossible not to communicate, and therefore impossible not to have an image. We create images of ourselves, companies, or institutions (whether we want to, because, for example, even our lack of presence in online communication channels already indicates something about us), thus we should do it consciously. The key to building customer relationships – using marketing or public relations tools – is to build brand awareness in a controlled and deliberate way.
Building brand awareness through positioning in the consumers’ eyes, associated with national (or regional) branding, is a standard procedure for increasing recognition of products and services.
Daniel Pink, in his book A Whole New Mind, makes a quite bold claim that: “the era of the dominance of scientific minds is over. The future belongs to a different kind of people with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers, in other words, creative and empathy-filled right-hemispheric thinkers.”
One entrepreneur comes to another and says something like: Listen, I want to know how you do it, you’ve got hundreds of opinions on Google Maps. I have only a few. Be a good buddy; tell me the secret of your success. The other replies with the following words: It's easy! Buy Google Reviews! It costs pennies and you make millions on it! I've been doing this for years. Nobody noticed me doing that.
As you are reading this article, certainly you already know something about reviews and their influence on the purchase decisions of a potential customer. Now it’s time to effectively obtain customer reviews and ratings. However, before you start sending out requests for reviews, you need to understand the behavior of both satisfied and dissatisfied customers.
One of the bases for building a positive image of the company is to obtain reviews. What is more, as research shows, 83% of consumers claim that they trust recommendations of friends and family completely or to some extent. In turn, 66% of people believe reviews published on the Internet. Find out what power lies in consumer reviews and get to the next level of online reputation management.
Negative reviews on Google Maps may cause customers to run away from your business. Even if they find your offer interesting, they won’t make a purchase from you. Do you know the principle of social proof? When people don’t know what decision to make, they tend to find out the reviews of others. Then they make the same choice as the majority of people.
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