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ReputationUpdated April 2026

Online Reputation Management

Own the conversation about your brand.

Review monitoring, response management, negative-result suppression, and proactive reputation building across Google, Yelp, Trustpilot, and more.

What it is

Your reputation is your business. We monitor mentions 24/7, respond to reviews on your behalf, and build positive search real estate so the first page of Google works for you, not against you.

Why it matters

  • 94% of consumers say a negative review has convinced them to avoid a business entirely (BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2024).
  • A one-star rating increase on Yelp drives a 5–9% revenue lift; the effect is causal, not correlational (Harvard Business School / Luca, Reviews Meet Revenue).
  • The typical business responds to only 56% of its reviews — responsiveness is itself a ranking and conversion signal that most competitors ignore.

Outcomes

  • Higher star ratings
  • Cleaner first-page SERPs
  • Better close rates

Tools we love

BirdeyeReputation.comTrustpilotGoogle AlertsBrand24

Who this is for

Growth-stage teams that want reputation treated as a discipline — not a side project. You have a real business to grow, budget to deploy thoughtfully, and an exec team that wants answers in numbers.

When you'd hire us

  • Launching a new brand, product, or market.
  • Current results are plateauing and you need a reset.
  • You need senior thinking without hiring a full-time team.

Engagement shape

Standalone sprint, multi-month program, or embedded team — you pick what fits. Fixed-fee sprints start small; programs scale with scope; embedded engagements run on a monthly retainer.

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Our process

A transparent, six-step cadence we run for every engagement — adapted to your business.

1

Audit

Current sentiment, review velocity, SERP real estate.

2

Response

Daily monitoring and on-brand responses.

3

Generation

Automated review requests across channels.

4

Suppression

Positive content to push negative SERP results down.

What you get

How we're different

Reputation is a noisy space. A few things we believe — and push back on — that shape how we run every engagement.

What most agencies do
  • Sell you a fixed template and adapt your business to it.
  • Hand the work to juniors after the pitch.
  • Report on vanity metrics that don't tie to revenue.
  • Lock you into proprietary tools you can't take with you.
  • Chase shiny tactics without a durable strategy.
What we do instead
  • Build a reputation system tuned to your P&L.
  • Senior practitioners on every call, every week.
  • Report on pipeline, revenue, CAC, LTV — not impressions.
  • All files, data, and docs live in your accounts. No lock-in.
  • Strategy first. Tactics second. Always in that order.

FAQs

Can you remove bad reviews?+

Only reviews that violate platform policies (fake, off-topic, defamatory, conflict-of-interest) — and only Google, Yelp, and similar platforms can approve those removal requests. Our primary approach is drowning bad reviews out with a steady stream of great ones, which is more durable and policy-compliant.

How do you generate more reviews?+

Automated post-purchase or post-service review requests via SMS (highest response rate), email, and QR codes. We also run first-party sentiment surveys before the review ask — high-sentiment customers get routed to Google, while low-sentiment customers get routed to a private feedback form. This is compliant and dramatically improves average rating.

Do you respond to reviews?+

Yes — within 48 hours, always on-brand, always specific to the reviewer's point. Google explicitly weights response rate as a local ranking signal, and consumers weight it as a purchase signal.

Industries we deliver Reputation for

Every industry has its own buyer, compliance, and economics. Click through for the playbook we use in your category.

Recent writing on Reputation

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