About Affordable Reputation Management

Affordable Reputation Management is a group of online reputation management specialists led by Mike Munter. Our core services include:

We provide many specific services, too, which you can find by browsing through our blog or checking out our YouTube channel.

How And Why We Started This Website

I launched this website in 2013 to service individuals and business owners looking for quality, results-based reputation management services, without busting the bank.

After researching several of the big reputation management firms at the time, I found some common themes:

  • Services costed thousands per month
  • 12 month long commitments were required
  • Contracts were signed

Additionally, when you contact the big players in the ORM space, you usually wind up talking to a sales person – someone who is not on the front lines, in the trenches doing the work. Their mission is to sell you, not to truly understand what your specific problem is and how to best address it.

When you contact us, you’ll be talking to me or one of my partners who specialize in getting results every day.

As our business has evolved, there are now other players in the affordable space, but they are largely two types of businesses: India agencies and automated services.

How I Keep Prices Affordable

We’re lean and mean. Here’s how we keep prices down for you:

  • Web design – I know this site isn’t the most professional looking, but I did it all myself. I’m a hack of a web designer, but the information is good and the I kinda like the design.
  • Content – I write the majority of the content myself, so there are no/low costs in it.
  • Videos – The videos you see on the site were either done solo, by me, or their conversational interviews with my various partners. I use the free version of Zoom to record and invested a couple hundred into Camtasia for production. The videos aren’t fancy on purpose and you’re not paying us for high-end video production, you’re paying for good results at affordable prices.
  • Featured Images – I grab all of our featured images from Pixabay or other free image sharing sites. I use Paint.net to mark them up. You guessed it – Paint.net is free, too.
  • Other images – All of the educational images you see in on the site are screenshots, quickly edited and marked up in Microsoft Paint.
  • Web hosting – GoDaddy, cheapest plan they have. I do invest in backups because hackers are a reality. And I don’t want to lose what we’re building here.
  • Paid advertising – I’ve never spent a dime on Google ads or any other form of advertising. All of our clients come to us by finding us in organic Google searches.

Aside from all of the design and technical aspects above, I’ve never had an office, nor have my partners. We operate out of our homes, which is cheap and a lot more comfortable.

We don’t have employees, we have contractors who help us. We employ US workers when we need writers and overseas workers when we need VA or admin help. All of our industry contacts are independent contractors; we’re only paying them when they are doing actual work for us/you.

We’re driven on a business model that is focused on results and very low overhead. Beyond that, it comes down to how much profit we want to make. I know it sounds cliche, but with our low cost structure, it’s easy to pass the savings on to our clients.

You’ll spend hundreds per month as opposed to thousands and you’ll get great results every month. We don’t do long term contracts, so you don’t have to renew each month unless you’re satisfied. Our retention rate is really good, considering people hire us so they can fire us when the job is done.

We get lots of referrals and perhaps our biggest ally is Google. I try to write great content and provide educational videos to help guide you out of a messy online situation.

There are a lot of players in the ORM space and we pretty much use the same strategies and have the same 3rd party contacts to help us get things done. For an honest conversation with reasonable expections and affordable monthly pricing, we look forward to hearing from you.

Why Us

We always shoot straight with you.

If we promise to do something, we will do it.

We always give our clients realistic expectations.

And if we can’t do something, we know a lot of specialists who can, that we trust. We’ll refer you to someone who can help you.

Check out our Youtube channel for how-to videos and guides to reputation management and Google autocomplete. Or check out our blog for DIY strategies like the ones below to help you get success.

Sincerely,

Mike Munter, Affordable Reputation Management