Start making enemies.
Hi, all hard working WA members!
I have been working a lot with my Affiliate Bootcamp/Super Affiliate Training website lately and something have happend. My main focus for this site is to review different online business but I also write posts about marketing, building websites etc.
What has happend is that I have started to get negative comments and mails about the reviews I'm doing. The comments can be about things they don't agree with or that I'm stupid or are doing this to promote my own scams or that I'm only lying etc. etc.
You problably can't have a business without negative feedback, criticism or even insults but it's not only bad. The fact that they are giving feedback means you reached out and got more visitors to interact!
What do you think?
Feel welcome to comment on your own experience of negative feedback or insults.
Regards, JanYou could be doing Mother Theresa’s work, and you’d still draw fire! But you happen to be offering critique, so you can be sure you will at some point upset those, for whom the subjects of your critique are much-cherished.
I’d tread delicately, and be respectful of this. People may have strong attachments to the entities you’re critiquing. As a hypothetical, If you were addressing members of a cult that you really wanted to help, would you write a critique that alienated them?
I also recall witnessing as early as the late 90s and early 00s, coordinated attacks on sites. Forums in places as seemingly benign as ivillage would form a posse and for often nothing more than sport, troll personal websites in large numbers. Then they’d post their exploits on the board to brag. I’m sure it still happens today.
I also happen to live in a country that has very strict anti-defamation laws. According to my lawyer at the Australian Writers’ Guild, Singapore is the only other country in the world which has tougher anti-defamation laws. This means it does not suffice to simply be telling the truth - the manner and intent of a writer might still be deemed defamatory.
On this last point, I should add that there are recent cases of bloggers being taken to court for damages against businesses, when their writing is held to account, and we should all take care to learn from such cases, and not even accidentally replicate such mistakes. Your geographical location may soon be as irrelevant to your means of work as your liability...
Tried and true
Elaine