Maintaining real and transparent relationships with your clients will help prevent negative opinions from being formed.

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When I checked around, media analysts there held negative opinions.

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Instead they wound up feeding the negative popular opinions about the product, instead of fixing it.

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Initial, strong opinions, either positive or negative, tended to sway subsequent comments in a similar direction.

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After enjoying rave reviews initially, opinions regarding the daily-deal industry have turned decidedly negative in the past few months.

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