how do you deal with keyboard gangsters?
sometimes, as your business starts to grow, you attract people who don't like you. how do you deal with those people?
sometimes, as your business starts to grow, you attract people who don't like you. how do you deal with those people?
The best revenge is massive success.
Get some people on your team! I recently started making friends with a lot of other founders, and spending more time shooting the shit with them. Feels good to talk to people who can relate.
Break their knee caps? lol :)
Seth Godin once wrote about how there's a certain percentage of people who you'll never please. It's best to not only avoid trying, but to actively discourage them from using your business.
I guess it boils down to the old saying... "Don't feed the trolls" lol :)
Haters gonna hate hate hate.
The worst is encountering men on the internet who don't think I should exist, or people who find every opportunity to nitpick and say how "they would do it right". I don't really deal with them anymore. Ignore, and I have a community of friends to vent to when it gets really tough, and sometimes punch something at the gym.
I liked Gary Vee's video about haters though, and I find it helped - think about how sad that person is to waste their time on following you around virtually and that their time is spent in such a negative way. How insecure they must be to spend their time spewing their negativity. It's not productive.
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Heck, you don't really need to grow. In my so far short career as an entrepreneur I experienced so much negativity. So many people looking for a fight, pushing to counter-validate my product, being destructive. And there was no growth... I got attacked by just pitching. This is why I never tell anybody "that's a bad idea" or "it can't work". What do I know? Half the products in the world today I'd told you they can't work.
I've heard a podcast in which Nick Gauthier was being interviewed about MeetSpace and he said that the community was amazing, that everybody was so helpful and nice. I couldn't believe it. It look like every step of the way he got positive reinforcement while I was fighting an uphill battle. I reached out to him and he told me I was sounding too commercial, too pitchy. I've been working on that and I've noticed a bit of a change, but you know what they say about correlations/causation.
Something that I'm yet struggling with is when many people come with objections to my product and I shut it down because I did my research and I know those objections are not valid, people still perceive me as a stubborn guy who doesn't accept feedback, instead of someone who made his research and knows what he's talking about.
Still just writing about this lower my mood and put me in a fight-mode. It's hard, it's a battle and I think this is my least favorite part of entrepreneurship.
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They thomasm. I think you are right and I live a very different life in many ways, so, I encounter this and as you say, I try to stay away from toxic people.
My problem is that I was trying to sell and network, and I was encountering that. My customers are not entrepreneurs (they could be, but there isn't a high correlation) so, I need to go where they are and talk to them.
I'm also trying to surround myself with more like-minded people, more entrepreneurs and people that have high agency and are doing their own thing, that are positive. But this is surprisingly hard (meetups don't tend to be a good place for that in my experience).
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you will get used after a while
You will get used? I'm not sure if a typo or intentional.
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