Reputation is almost everything in building a brand

[CTO114]

We've seen international brands like apple, Amazon, just to mention a few, become global brands, and in years to come become more valuable sustain continued universal patronage. When we critically look at their operations, on thing actually stands out, and that is over the years they've been able to build a strong reputation as anything produced by them would surely be welcome by their consumers.

As it concerns building a brand, a person with no reputation must constantly prove that they are capable of, while a person with an established reputation as mentioned earlier starts from a different position.

If you are known for keeping your word, people negotiate with you differently. If you are known for making difficult making difficult decisions, people prepare differently when you enter a room. If you are known for solving problems under pressure, opportunities find you before you ask for them; "like the popular saying, your reputation proceeds you". If you are known for being unreliable, even your good decisions are examined with suspicions.

That is because reputation is accumulated information.

People can't observe everything you have done, so they compress history into an expectation of what you're likely to do next.

Your past behavior becomes a prediction. The prediction changes their behaviour. Their behaviour changes the circumstance you face.

That is why reputation is a valuable component when looking to build a sustained brand!

[EarnOnVictor]

Reputation helps with consistency, which is where it edges higher than the initial marketing, and becomes self-marketing itself. The initial marketing could temporarily help, but if the product doesn't deliver the quality products or services as intended, it will still crumble, it's just a matter of time.

So long as you can solve problems, build new things and evolve beyond the common, and still deliver as best, there is no way you will not shine. People loves satisfaction, and satisfaction keeps the money flowing to you.

[Egii Nna]

Building strong and resilient Reputation is very important for a business to become sustainable and continue being successful in the long term. When a business have managed to build reputation through providing quality products to their customers and they keep up with the integrity of those products over the long term, the perception of people towards the brand will positively improve and they will be able to build trust very fast.

Reputation is not built in a day, it takes time and the longer it takes the more stronger the reputation becomes, your quality to continue giving consistent value overtime is what builds a best level of trust among your customers and even new potential clients. Building reputation also depends on your industry, some industries require more time to build strong reputation than others.

[Cryptomultiplier]

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." — Warren Buffett

Reputation to me has assymetry to effort and consistency. If you deliver as consistently as when you started and over the years you have managed to put in more effort with consistency despite life's challenges and competition, you have built a name with this alone and that's why it's good to be honest, accountable, and have a clear vision so that it's easy to get the help you need along the way

Reputation is simply what remains of you or the brand you are trying to build over the years, when you remove discrepancies from the equation of what you promised after being paid and what you deliver upon completion and in time.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Of course, reputation is what makes a business to stand out in the long term that is why most of these global brands do make sure that they still maintain the standard they are known for despite whatever it will cost them. Building a reputation is not easy but the more difficult one is how to continue with what you are known for over the years because you must surely encounter challenges that would have cost you to lose that reputation but still you didn't compromise because you want to maintain public trust.
       Being credible enough is something that attracts people naturally because everyone wants to get exactly what they want, if you're not able to do that again it will instantly change people's view and opinion towards you.

[Bitcoin.com97]

Reputation is very essential in business, people have to know you for a reputable character, everyone want someone they can trust ,been it a product or money ,I know someone who is very good at what she does ,but doesn't keep up to time ,also lack the act of consistency but knows her work , because of these few characteristics she lacks brought the down fall of her business, people should know you by your words ,and not by playing with their intelligence, accountability is very very necessary in running a brand .

[Jubilee58]

Reputation is very important when building a brand because you need something that will enable your customers have trust in your product, and is good product that helps in announcing or promoting the name of your company. When a company is producing fake items or proye product, the reputation of that very company will be tannished, and probably your are going to loose your potential customers. This is applicable even in your own private business, when you are always giving your customers quality product, and treating them well, they will be the ones to promote your business and any company or business that lacks good reputation is bound to fail at any given point in time.

[Junii]

Actually reputation is like backbone in making a brand and it also take years to build but once people trust your name it changes everything you do. No doubt a strong reputation can create opportunities because people already have trust in you before you even prove yourself to every customer but at the same time if u want growth you have to protect it as well because one bad decision can destroy years of trust and reputation in the market. In our language there is a famous sentence about reputation that if someone fell from high rise building maybe he will stand again but if his reputation ruined it is almost impossible to build again.

[knuckey]

Reputation in my opinion is the highest price that cannot be bought, without a reputation everything will be very difficult to build in all fields, especially business, reputation has a big influence so that the business can run, without a good reputation a brand is just a symbol, but with a good reputation a brand is an expensive price, everyone will want to work with a brand that has a good reputation

[Yeesha]

You are extremely right, reputation is almost everything in building a brand, along with it, it requires the quality of the product, some people don't mind it quantity, what they need is for the products to meet their satisfaction. It takes a lot of things to build a good reputation, such as communication skills between the workers and the customer, loyalty, kindness, honesty, commitment. The more you earn people's trust, the more reputable you become, and the more your organisation develop. Customers satisfaction should always be your priority as a business owner either man or woman.

[Youngrebel]

Trust is something that's earned and for people to be able to trust your Brand your reputation matters a lot and in the long run this expands the brand. There are little things that you probably think isn't noticable but people take them seriously, an example is when you say that something would be delivered by a specific time and you end up delivering it at that time this is something that shows that you can be relied on, punctuality is important.

You cannot just wake up and build a brand reputation, this take time and a lot of efforts but you are definitely going to earn the trust you require to grow your Brand if you can be consistent with it.

Lastly, one important thing that you must do as a brand owner is that you must be careful about the kind of people you employ, if your employees are incompetent it would slowly affect your brand and whatever it is you are building for yourself.

[Stepstowealth]

That is why reputation is a valuable component when looking to build a sustained brand!

Reputation is so important that we have big brands who go after people with high reputation to sign them as ambassadors for their products. This is because they understand that because of the reputation of this person they will be able to influence a lot of people to become customers to this their business, now imagine in a situation where it is the owner of a business that has a very strong reputation, there will be no need to spend a lot of money on marketing or trying to get someone else with reputation to help promote the business because the reputation of the owner has already marketed the business itself.

[Stalker22]

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That is because reputation is accumulated information.

Exactly!  Which, of course, is why "accumulated information" goes both ways as well.  Create some good, it compounds like interest.  Burn it, and you will spend twice the energy dealing with suspicion at every single step of the way.

[AmoreJaz]

That is why reputation is a valuable component when looking to build a sustained brand!

Reputation is so important that we have big brands who go after people with high reputation to sign them as ambassadors for their products. This is because they understand that because of the reputation of this person they will be able to influence a lot of people to become customers to this their business, now imagine in a situation where it is the owner of a business that has a very strong reputation, there will be no need to spend a lot of money on marketing or trying to get someone else with reputation to help promote the business because the reputation of the owner has already marketed the business itself.

And you can build good reputation by years of operation. Because you can't verify such reputation without any reference years of good business. And do remember, one mistake and it can all go down hard. So if the business is trying to protect its credibility, they won't jeopardize it even by petty complaints. Small or big complaints -they are ready to resolved it as the goal is to satisfy and serve all types of clients.

[Abu-Naim]

And you can build good reputation by years of operation. Because you can't verify such reputation without any reference years of good business. And do remember, one mistake and it can all go down hard. So if the business is trying to protect its credibility, they won't jeopardize it even by petty complaints. Small or big complaints -they are ready to resolved it as the goal is to satisfy and serve all types of clients.

Yes, if you are new to business, you will need to be consistent with delivering good and quality and selfless service if that’s what you do, or you should be creating a quality materials consistently to build reputation. If you are new to business, your consistency will be what will determine your reputation, people will monitored how qualitatively what you offer is and how consistent you have been for long, if they find it interesting, they will start to trust you, once you have gotten the trust you needed, your reputation is being built gradually, so after some years, you don’t need to advertise anymore, your reputation will always speak for you which is the result of consistency.

[Makus]

What brings people back to your business or to keep on patronizing your brand is the integrity that you have and this is what people look at, without this there is no trust. A lot of people don't know how important this is and when their business starts falling that's when they think of the solution to start fixing the problem.

It is also possible to build a reputation and have it destroyed within a few minutes just because you were careless about certain things. Reputability is all about trust, if you cannot stand on your word on a particular thing then you should not really get involved in, building this takes a lot time.

[Powerjumboo]

We've seen international brands like apple, Amazon, just to mention a few, become global brands, and in years to come become more valuable sustain continued universal patronage. When we critically look at their operations, on thing actually stands out, and that is over the years they've been able to build a strong reputation as anything produced by them would surely be welcome by their consumers.

As it concerns building a brand, a person with no reputation must constantly prove that they are capable of, while a person with an established reputation as mentioned earlier starts from a different position.

If you are known for keeping your word, people negotiate with you differently. If you are known for making difficult making difficult decisions, people prepare differently when you enter a room. If you are known for solving problems under pressure, opportunities find you before you ask for them; "like the popular saying, your reputation proceeds you". If you are known for being unreliable, even your good decisions are examined with suspicions.

That is because reputation is accumulated information.

People can't observe everything you have done, so they compress history into an expectation of what you're likely to do next.

Your past behavior becomes a prediction. The prediction changes their behaviour. Their behaviour changes the circumstance you face.

That is why reputation is a valuable component when looking to build a sustained brand!

Is fame and reputation enough to create a well-known brand? First of all, the quality of that brand must be improved. If a brand's products are normal and do not meet the customer's expectations, and if technological advancements are not made, then that brand will never be able to achieve a good reputation. If a band does not achieve a good reputation, a brand will never be known to the people. Therefore, I think that in order for a brand to achieve a good reputation, the quality of the product must be improved and it must be made according to the customer's needs. Not only in the case of a brand, but also in the case of a person, if his behavior, style of speaking, and style of judging and analyzing are not good, then that person can never achieve a good reputation. Achieving a good reputation must be a good behavior in society, analysis, and long hours and creativity.

[Samlucky O]

Yeah reputation is very important when starting a new business as it is the top most priority of every business man / woman. it gives you some kind of respect. If you had an existing reputation and you start a new business, it will flourish because you have already been known, but if you are not known and want to start a new business, it will be slow because people need to build trust with you and know the kind of product you have and the reason why you come too early and other reasons.

[Opiate32]

Reputation is not everything because having a good repute can only give your brand a chance but what keeps them there is what they experience after that. You can have a very good reputation and still lose customers if your  goods stops meeting people’s expectations. Whereas a small brand with little reputation can gradually build one by  consistently delivering what it promises.

Reputation is more like a result of your actions than something you can build by just talking about your brand. Every transaction and customer experience and review adds to it. Once people notice that your words and action consistently match together, trust starts to come and grow naturally.

[Muba20]

A person's reputation is created through various past behaviors and actions. It may take ages to build it, but it does not take much time to break that reputation. Those who have been behave positively to the people for a long time and have a long history of keeping their commitments develop a positive image among people, and that positive image eventually turns into a reputation, which helps to make branding.  When someone develops a product for a business and people use those products for a long time and gain trust in that person, then that creates branding value.

In the beginning of a business, it definitely took time to build that reputation. At that time, people gained trust by using their products. Because of people's trust and confidence in them, their products also gained trust from everyone, which at some point turned into a trusted brand. That is why if we talk about brands, then of course reputation plays a major role in it. Those who do not have a good reputation cannot do branding. Brand value will only exist when a positive perception is created by the business or personal behavior of the person behind it.