Mary Jean Wall

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Why Do You Need Online Reputation Management?

Online reputation management is a necessary part of doing business these days, and while you can do it yourself, there is a reason why it takes whole companies to run effective online reputation management campaigns. Although it may seem counterintuitive, the truth is that you really need to start an online reputation management campaign before someone has attacked your reputation online. Unlike the world outside of the internet, bad information about your company will not just pass over. If it sets itself up as an authority , it will become more and more likely that people will link to it. As people do that it will just continue to get stronger. If you have had a good ongoing reputation management campaign going before the attack shows up, you may never even see the attack as it will immediately be buried under the good things you have been promoting for some time at that point. The good news here isn’t that you will never see the attack, but more importantly that your customers and potential customers will never see the attack.

This applies to purely brick and mortar companies as well as any company that already has a website. Just because no one knows your name online, or because you haven’t set yourself up to have an online presence doesn’t mean that someone can’t attack you, or that when they do it won’t affect you. Here it is a when, because with almost all companies, even if you have the best customer service in the world, which I can assure you, you probably don’t, there are still some people who you simply can not please. Unfortunately as internet literacy raises, this means that you have a higher chance that one of those customers you just could not please no matter what, will not only be able to attack you online, but know how to get it into the top ten search results. If you have started a reputation management campaign before this, you will be able to hold off the attack and keep your sites with information you control in the top of the search results because they will have greater authority. This is why all companies need to start an online reputation management campaign as soon as they are running.

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Best Soups in Manhattan

Feeling like comfort food during your stay in New York City? Soup is the answer and there are hundreds of soup places in the city, but there are only a few restaurants serving the best soups you’ll ever taste.

Hale and Hearty Soups , the original of the seventeen restaurants is located at 75 Ninth Avenue and opened in 1995, which was way before soups became a craze in Manhattan. The name – Hale and Hearty Soups basically describes them the best, and the phrase ‘hale and hearty’ comes from Shakespeare and refers to an old person with vitality, it also means ‘healthy and well nourished’. This establishment is committed to making soups of the highest quality with the freshest ingredients. Some consider the soups a meal in and of itself; the soups are very thick and thick enough to eat with a fork. If you’re staying in New York during bad weather, they will deliver the soup to your hotel room , and what could be more perfect than a bowl of soup on a cold wintry day in New York?

For those of you hankering for a soup dumpling, then ‘Joe’s Shanghai’ is for you. Claimed as the best soup dumplings around. Joe’s crab pork meat has become one of New Yorks favorite all time soup dumpling. This eatery has been named the Best Restaurant by the New York Times Restaurant Guide, also by the Travel and Leisure magazine, by the Gourmet Magazine and by Zagat Survey. It’s even been featured in Japan. Joe’s Shanghai has four locations, one in Chinatown, one in Upper Manhattan, Queens and Flushings. The experience of eating at Joe’s is a interesting one, the decor is not so great and the service is intermittent, but once you take a bite from the juicy pork dumpling, all of this triviality goes away. This soup dumpling is sheer heaven.

There are two more restaurants that serves really good soups, Cafe Sabarsky , which is located on 1048 5th Avenue, is an excellent Viennese cafe and their goulash soup is the best item on their menu. Xe Lua, located on 86 Mulberry Street, has the best Pho’ in the city. Pho’ is a rich, aromatic Vietnamese soup prepared by boiling beef or chicken bones for hours along with spices like cloves, ginger, star anise, cinnamon and cardamon. Basil if added in most chicken based Pho. If you haven’t tried a Pho dish, do so, you’ll only be sorry you’ve never tried it until now.

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