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Small Business: Take control of your online reputation

Jamie Herzlich

Newsday columnist Jamie Herzlich Jamie Herzlich

Herzlich writes the Small Business column in Newsday.

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Like it or not, the Internet influences consumer buying decisions.

A survey released in April 2009 by the Opinion Research Corp. in Princeton, N.J., found that two-thirds of all respondents checked some type of online review forum when considering a purchase, and that those reviews had a significant impact on their own purchasing decisions.

So if you're not monitoring what people are...

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