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Best practices for social media shilling

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These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . All this was brought to mind when I recently did some dog food research for a client and it occurred to me that quite a few of the comments are astroturf. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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Your online reputation should be a culmination of you

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In order to control your online reputation — to make sure it reflects you in your best and most accurate light — you need to work slowly, intentionally, consistently, and with purpose by feeding little bits of discrete content about yourself constantly, over time, and across a number of disparate platforms. Sad but too true.