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Advanced Certificate in Online Reputation Management for Business Module 4: Repairing and Recovering Your Online Reputation

  • Digital Marketing & Comms
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  • SkillsFuture
  • Short Courses
  • This module is part of Advanced Certificate in Online Reputation Management for Business

This module is conducted in-person.

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Fee
SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 Full Days (Weekdays)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Business owners, in particular, those from SMEs and start-ups with limited in-house legal and communications functions
  • Line managers and executives from various functions, especially those in marketing, PR, communications
  • In-house counsel


PREREQUISITES

Participants should be fluent in speaking and written English.

Overview

Once negative information hits the web, it can be difficult to remove. So what should you do if your business suddenly experiences an uptick in negative reviews, faces a social media crisis, or worse?

No matter your industry or size of your company, there has never been a bigger need than today to protect and improve your online reputation. When customers or ex-employees leave your company a negative review, your brand's online reputation can go sour very quickly.

In this module, we'll explain how online review websites work and how businesses and customers rely on these websites; how your brand can claim, confirm and optimise your online review profile for better rankings; which online review websites your company should target, and, most importantly, proven and inexpensive tips and techniques you can implement in order to suppress negative reviews, and to earn more positive stories for your brand.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2-day module, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how to repair and recover their online reputation with effective strategies and why it's vital to focus on this now

  • Define online reputation and why it matters for every business, manager and professional
  • Understand how online review websites (such as Google, Facebook, Glassdoor) work
  • Learn how to set up alerts to notify them about articles/reviews published about them or their business
  • Learn how to audit webpages and negative media
  • Know how to react to a negative review or article
  • Understand how to get the review removed (or turned into a positive review)
  • Know how to protect their business, staff and themselves online with online reputation management
  • Learn about how to bury negative reviews using effective digital strategies

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Marcus Ho
Author
Social Payoff
Marcus Ho
Author
Social Payoff
Marcus is the founder of Asia's fastest-growing and award-winning digital marketing agency, Brew Interactive. The agency specialises in working with financial and real estate brands to leverage content strategies that will drive their business goals. Over the last 12 years, Marcus, alongside with his team has worked with numerous organisations to grow and protect their online reputation; from large multinational brands, to SMEs and even individuals. He is also the author of the highly-rated book, Social Payoff.

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