Should I Respond To Negative Comments?
AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design
Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Alice, who has received negative comments from members of her community. How should she respond? Should she respond? Alice’s site is http://www.yourdoulabag.com/. You can find Jay Baer at http://www.convinceandconvert.com/. Do you have a question about dealing criticism? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:04.0 | AskPath.com.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.2 | Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 325 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.7 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:17.4 | All right. |
| 0:17.7 | Now let's get to today's question from Alice. |
| 0:20.9 | Hi, Pat. This is Alice Turner. I have a blog and an e-commerce site called Yourdula bag.com. |
| 0:28.1 | I have recently opened a membership site, and it's the first one in that niche. |
| 0:34.2 | And after launching that, I have received some very hurtful and negative comments from the community. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm just wondering if you have any suggestions on dealing with us, whether I should |
| 0:49.3 | respond to anything that's submitted in social media or should I ignore it and just wondering |
| 0:58.4 | any tips and our thoughts you have on the situation. Thanks so much. Absolutely love your |
| 1:04.5 | podcast and I only need to convince you to release something on Saturday and Sunday. |
| 1:12.2 | Thanks so much, Pat. |
| 1:15.1 | Hey, Alice, what's up? |
| 1:16.2 | Thank you so much for the question. |
| 1:23.3 | And first of all, just let me empathize with you because I have also received several hateful comments in the past. |
| 1:28.3 | And some in the far distant past that I continue to remember and think about because they were incredibly hurtful, and even ones that I've had in the most recent past as well. |
| 1:33.1 | And it's just to show you that it is something that all entrepreneurs go through. |
| 1:38.3 | And the first thing that I'll tell you is something that was kind of surprising to me to hear |
| 1:42.5 | when I heard these comments coming in |
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