Thursday, September 17, 2009

How To Monitor Your Brand Usage

Brand is not just a name. It is more like the face of your business. And sure you don’t want this face to be used by others. But how do you know?

Most powerful way to misuse your well-known and respectable brand is to use it in emails. How does it work? ‘Bad guys’ place links to their sites and call them with your brand’s name. When someone reads that email he may be sure that it will lead him to your product. But it doesn’t. And this way your brand works for someone else.

And how do you know who is sending marketing emails with your brand in it? Obvious that you can’t spent a lifetime subscribing on everything in the internet just to see if something comes up. For this reason maybe the best way to do the job is to use services dedicated for that.

Here comes MailExp.com. With a free registration you get access to millions marketing emails gathered throughout the Web. And you can just do a simple search for your brands to see who, where and when is using your name, your brands, your site links – within a minutes. You can even set up alerting to receive notifications when something matching your filters comes up.

How do you benefit from this? It’s simple: your customers will stay with you because they know that your brands are trustworthy, and new customers will come to work with a company that works hard on maintaining their status and trust level.

You want to know how to avoid your brand’s misuse? There is no way for doing it. If someone wants to use it illegally, they will. But you can monitor those efforts and get rid of violators via legal ways, thus saving your place in the market clean and safe. Don’t let others to use your benefits!

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