All the 7878 method will do is help you get leads. Getting leads has nothing to do with reputation management. I assume you got excited by the big dollar figures and decided you wanted to get into reputation management?
In reputation my goal is to help my clients. I do that by creating good content and helping them get new clients and make sales. I actually promote and market my clients through press releases, websites, social media, etc. to help them build a better brand while cleaning up their search results for their business or personal name.
If the client is an individual who doesn't have anything to sell, I just focus on cleaning up the search results.