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Best Practices: Executive Reputation Tracking

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Why this matters
Executive reputation impacts investor confidence, talent acquisition, and brand trust. Monitoring named individuals and benchmarking against industry peers ensures you can manage perception proactively and respond quickly to emerging narratives.


1) How to Set Up Monitoring for Named Individuals

Best practices

  • Create dedicated Mention Streams for each executive using full name, title, company, and context terms (e.g., conference names, quotes).

  • Include broadcast and podcast sources where executive commentary often appears.

  • Test streams with a short lookback to confirm accuracy.

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2) Tips for Reducing Noise Around Common-Name Executives

Disambiguation strategies

  • Add qualifiers like company name, role, product names, and known affiliations.

  • Use exclude keywords for unrelated individuals sharing the same name.

  • Apply geographic filters if coverage is region-specific.

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3) Monitoring Industry Thought-Leaders for Benchmarking

Why it matters

  • Benchmarking against peer CEOs and analysts helps contextualize your executive’s visibility and sentiment.

  • Create streams for competitors and sector influencers; compare Share of Voice, themes, and sentiment in dashboards.


4) Recommended Cadence & Metrics for Executive Reputation Reports

Cadence

  • Weekly snapshot for comms teams

  • Monthly deep dive for leadership

Metrics to include

  • Coverage volume

  • Sentiment trend

  • Share of Voice vs. peers

  • Leading sources and journalists

  • Message pull-through (themes)

  • Potential audience reach

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