Here are a few examples:
1. When you start your first online business from zero point without any knowledge in SEO and promotion and reach in the TOP 3 search, you will likely hear a lot of negative negative comments from other webmasters in the same niche as you.
- "Your website sucks"
- "It is not pretty"
- "No legit design"
And so forth...
In other words, it all sucks!!
Of course, such a young website and already in the top. Why not criticize it?
2. Those who are working on info-products and create training videos also may receive negative comments.
- "training courses suck"
- "this is kindergarten stuff"
- "blabla we know all that stuff"
The things you may hear in your address!
3. Imagine that you bring your website from zero to 500 visitors in just 4 months (!).
And here it comes again:
- "blog sucks"
- "blog posts suck"
- "you don't know anything about SEO"
Of course, why not criticize.
These critics-"SEO optimizers" spend 12 hours a day to have such amount of visitors, and here's some random newbie takes it all.
Anyway, there is a whole bunch of examples I could give, but I guess you get the point.
Let's move on to the way to react to criticism.
NEXT: Attitude Towards Criticism
I really think people need to remember that the way in which we do things can make a hug difference!
"Your website sucks" is really not nice, firstly it is not said in a nice way and most importantly it doesn't say why or give any help/ assistance/ advice/ suggestions on how to improve. This makes it a completely worthless piece of criticism to me.
If someone at least says "Your website sucks because.... " I can use this :)
I have received quite a lot of criticism and some of it has been nothing short of ugly. I will take that as a compliment because the only reason I can think of that people will give such nasty criticism in such a spiteful way must be because they are sick with jealousy.
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Thank you for sharing your experience!
Personally, I think you're doing a good job in distinguishing what you need to pay attention to and what you don't. Good for you!
Thank you for sharing your experience with me and the others who are reading this comment.
Hope to see you around!
Zarina
Honestly, you don’t need to put a lot of emphasis on negative energy. It isn’t going to do you any good in the long run.
I think a lot of the criticism is taken wrong or with an emotional reaction. You can give someone criticism without saying it the childish way. For me I am always going to tell someone what I think in person on the internet, but in a way that isn't hurting their feelings. It's not what you say sometimes; it's how you say it.
For me I have heard a lot stuff over the years. In the beginning I used to rush into design and ask for feedback from others. I would get told something looks like a kid did it or it looks like it was done in 1996. Other times big companies have tried to publicly insult my credentials as a business owner.
I used to get really pissed about it, but at the end of the day you have to sit back and look at it and see what positives you can take away from it.
I got better at web design and improved my credentials as a result. So I guess it isn't all bad :)
Great lessons you took out of your experiences!
And that's how it should be done really - we should see the positive side of every situation; take constructive criticism into consideration, and if not a constructive one, well, then just ignore it.
No need to waste time on haters. As they say, haters gonna hate :D
Thank you for taking time to tell us your experience and simply post a comment here.
I appreciate it!
Best of luck to you in your business, I am sure you will succeed with the attitude you got! :)
Zarina
I think everything in life just takes time, patience and practice. In this case, it's just a practice to actually ignore such people.
We learn as we go!
