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Reputation is the most important factor in the long term success of the entirety of your company's efforts. You reform your reputation each day with every customer your business meets. Really you have not one business reputation, but many reputations which are created in the minds of people who deal with you during your business movements. You must realize that it is vital to remember that you have a reputation with those who have no experience with your business but heard tell of you from others.

A tune from Joan Jett from the old days is called 'Bad Reputation.' Joan was a famous rocker of her age, but she was also a cunning marketing person. She positioned herself as the bad girl of rock, and the song 'Bad Reputation' was a great success. In the ever rebellious world of alternative rock, a woman reveling in her bad reputation was in demand. She probably fibbed a little when she sang 'I don't give a damn about my bad reputation' as she in fact cared a good amount about her bad reputation, it was what made her marketable! She harnessed that reputation to achieve lasting fame.

Unfortunately for most of us, a poor reputation does not stand as a desirable marketing tool to grow our business. The only exceptions outside of musicians might be trial lawyers, repo men, or bail bondsmen who are, in a way, respected for their fierceness and underworld savvy. For the rest of the world it just doesn't work like that.

You need to be very aware that everything you do, and everything your workers do, for your business contributes to your reputation. There are no Mulligans in business. You can work to fix issues that might have put your business reputation in a bad light. Actually, fixing issues properly can prove to be the silver lining. However, you will never change people's memory of what caused someone to regard your business negatively.

Every interaction you have with people you encounter in your business has one of three results related to your reputation. Two of these results are not desirable, the other one is terrific!

The first one is an experience you have with a customer, or potential customer, where you don't embarrass your business or company, but you also don't do anything to stand out from the other companies. You may not think this is the worst outcome, but it comes close. You have managed to be at best typical in the customer's view. The customer will either forget you in the future, or consider you a business that was all right last time.

The second result takes place when you, or your employee, has made such a huge mistake so as to make certain the client feels a burning anger toward you. It can get no worse for your business. Not only have you lost a client, you have made certain you have lost anyone who listens to that customer when they talk about you. There is no way to calculate the full damage that will occur. If you as a business owner have knowingly allowed this to transpire, then you deserve the evil to come. Yet often the business owner knows nothing of what has happened if the issue happened when only an employee was present, or out of their own interactions with the customer. You can't assume that angered clients will make the effort to inform you what happened. In most cases they just never come back and no opportunity exists to fix it. If you do become aware of the problem, but don't correct it, then again you have earned the bad reputation it makes. However, if you take the initiative to go try to fix the situation, you will have employed one the greatest opportunities in business - to reassure a client that you value their loyalty and are willing to do what it takes to demonstrate interest.

Ending number three is what all business owners should seek in all interactions they have with clients. You strive to convince the customers, and potential customers, that in addition to furnishing high-quality services or materials, you have a concern for how services or materials provide for a customer's desires. It concerns gaining trust with your customers so that they know you will always focus on filling their needs. After reaching this goal you can trust that you've cultivated a loyal customer who's value dwarfs any purchase they may make today.

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