Ep. 45 - How To Handle Haters As Your Business Grows

Market Like A Nerd ™ with Amanda Goldman-Petri | Work Smarter Online Marketing Strategies For Business Owners And Entrepreneurs

As your business grows its visibility, authority, and income...you will experience more Haters than ever before. At first it may come as a shock and it won't feel good, but in this episode I'm going to share with you my 3 tips for how to Handle the haters, so that you can at least shorten the shock period and know what to do when it happens.

Time Stamped Show Notes

• 00:08 – As I’ve been scaling up my income, visibility, and authority… I’m continuing to experience more haters than ever before. Seriously, one second, everything was peaceful and then the next second, after I started doing FB ads, and interviews, and getting PR...all of a sudden there were people saying mean stuff on my posts, sending me hate mail, being jerks.
• 1:03 – At first when it happened, because I’m a good, sensitive person, yeah it bothered me. And it’ll probably shock you at first too, but hopefully these 3 tips will shorten up the shock period and prepare you for exactly what to do.
• 1:26 – Tip # 1: So first: Anticipate It. Look, people say “You know you’ve made it when you have your first hater” and it’s true. So just know it will happen, that way when it does, it doesn’t sting so bad.
• 2:00 – Tip # 2: Embrace It. When you start getting haters, know it means you are on your way to greatness. You are being more visible. You are being envied. You are triggering people because people are seeing in you the things they wish they had for themselves. So when you get haters, get excited because you’ve made it.
• 2:35 – Tip # 3: Address It. Now you could just delete their emails and posts, pretend it didn’t happen, hope other people didn’t see them or you could do something very unexpected and actually respond to your haters with kindness. My favorite thing to do is to craft professionally, peacefully worded responses to these people. Partially because I think it makes me look good. Partially because I’m passive aggressive and I think it’ll make them feel like crap to see that they were so mean to a nice person. But also partially because it’s an opportunity to make an impact, because those haters are probably the ones who need the love the most. It’s your chance to show them kindness.
• 4:53 – Recap.

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