Haters Gotta Hate! - How do you deal with it?

I view them as a sign of my success. The better known and more successful you are, the more people know who you are. As a result, you end up with a lot more people who love, and unfortunately, hate you.

We tend to do a weird thing to people. First, we root for them when they're the underdogs, then when they make it, we tear 'em down.

Just remember not to take it personally, even though that can be hard at times.

I'm finding there are a lot of jealous types online. If they see someone doing well, they feel threatened. Once I started to make money, I've noticed there is some resentment out there. I would just ignore his post.

Kudos to you for approving the comment and for your check!

For your other readers, leaving the comment there will just instill more credibility to you and your earnings.

Like you said, haters gotta hate! Some people just enjoy being miserable. In this case, they are just jealous of your check.

Hating is what people do when they start losing faith in themselves. Nothing worse than seeing someone going far when you're going nowhere at all.

I haven't had that happen to me, but I think I would do something similar to what you did. Just be careful not to be too arrogant, when dealing with haters.

I've seen several threads (WSOs or Warrior For Hire-threads) here on WF, where people have been very arrogant towards their potential customers. Posts saying stuff like "What a pointless post" and using language clealy indicating, that they think the potential customer is stupid.

Those kinds of posts make me shake my head and never want to do business with the seller.

To be honest with you those kind of shots are really easy to Photoshop. Sad, but true. Skeptics are just that. Skeptical. Good for you for approving the comment, just be careful that you don't come across as a know it all bleep bleep. Silly to ruin your reputation over one stupid comment.

Move on.... No sense in dwelling on why some punk is attempting to rain on your parade. There are bad apples/pessimists/trolls all over the net. Over the years I've grown a thick skin, which you'll need to do if your in I.M. unfortunately.

I kinda feel sorry for people who are so limited they can't believe what's possibile if they put their mind to it. Probably won't ever achieve what they really want.

On the other hand there's so much bad stuff out there I understand why some are skeptical but it's no excuse to call you a fraud without hard evidence.

Not only are Haters gonna Hate, but they also seem to have a lifetime supply of Haterade!

Instead of French Cries, they order extra large servings of Hatertots--which for whatever reason, also seem to be in plentiful supply!

All lame jokes aside, you just gotta move on. Anytime you are creating something or putting yourself out in the public eye you are going to have detractors. I personally don't mind being infamous! Hell it got me through high school, why won't it work in the "real world?!"

I find haters to be funny. I've encountered many trolls in my time and they always try to bring you down, thing is it never works.

it just comes with the territory you just have to learn to ingnore it and not let it bother you

People will always say stuff like that. It comes with putting yourself out there.

By making more money and doing something positive with my life.

There are plenty of haters out there that will take the time out of their day to say something to you just to try and get underneath your skin. You just gotta accept that fact and ignore the trash that comes out of their mouth.

The most sucessful people have haters.

Haters are people who are jealous about what you have accomplishe and they can't do it themselves.

I tell everyone on Twitter one time--

if you hte me I have 2 words for you-... F**k Off

it's natural to hare over someone elses sucess

its only when you are on top that people like to pull you down... so let them... they can try as much as they want..

As others have said, it comes with the territory - don't let it bother you. The more successful/well-known you become, the more often it's going to happen.

I either ignore it or **** with them till I'm bored

You Just got to shrug it off and move on... All in all, it is only your opinion and views that should matter. Just ignore it

Normally, haters don't bring value to my blog, so I delete their comments.

Besides that, I don't deal with them. After all, their hate cannot touch me, it makes themselves unhappy. So let them deal with it ;-)

Ignore them. It is un professional to reply in a manner that you did. You don't want to seem like some punk when you are trying to run a business.

Any picture can be modified in PS.

If you want to keep the comment, reply simply with more facts that legitimizes your business or product.


Bad press is good press.

Interesting and a bit upsetting that people are so easily labeled haters. These days it seems that to be a hater one simply needs to disagree with another. I doubt someone who questioned your earnings screenshot actually hates you. I'm actually sick of seeing how easily the word gets thrown around. Just sayin'

What CAN you do?

I mean really. Most of 'em are just JELLY.



(Translation in 2011: Jealous)

Brush your shoulders off and move on. They say black, you say white.

Not everyone will agree 100% with you.

I post something nice.

Although my first instinct is to post something negative or hateful, that would only fuel the fire. -- kill them with kindness.

you just ignore the haters,dont waste your time

I see it as a sign of success cuz when you become successful haters start coming out of the woodwork. In life, there are many battles, but we must be discerning to know which ones to fight and which ones to walk away.

And true, "there are bad apples/pessimists/trolls all over the net" because they can comment on anything they want and it’s totally anonymous.

I just deal with it with a smile. You know you're doing something right when you get haters.

I remember my first hater email it was the funnest thing and I knew I had made it.

I would recommend Katt Williams' bit on haters, even though he's not really my style.

I somewhat agree with whoever said that the word is thrown around really easily though. Merely disagreeing and asking questions does not automatically create a 'hater', it's rather the tone and the level of commitment lol.

If you don't have any enemies, you've never taken a stand for anything of consequence.

Usually I ignore them... or fire back with facts. I don't waste a lot of time on it though.

In my experience, these people bail as soon as you show you're not going to take their crap.

For example, the other day I had a guy asking to see a sample in a particular market. So I showed him a letter I wrote that did 19% conversions... and pulled in over half a million.

His response?

"We both know there's no way that made so much money!"

So I sent back a screenshot with the figures. Never heard from him again.

Some people can't comprehend the level of success you have. And instead of try to understand how they can get there, they prefer to believe it's impossible.

Certainly takes the onus off them, right?

-Daniel

nothn' like a bit of small poppy syndrome - ignore it - if you cant - be proud you're ruffling feathers!

lol

What? You approved the comment and now you're asking how to deal with the haters? I'm confused.

Why do people get so pissed when somebody says something negative about them? Obviously you made an impression on that guy if he took the time to comment lol.

Here's a very good post from Tim Ferris

Tim Ferriss Scam! Practical Tactics for Dealing with Haters

From the post:
Robustness is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who hates it (artists); fragility is when you care more about the few who hate your work than the multitude who loves it (politicians).

You'll always have haters when you become successful, and the more successful you become the more haters you'll have. Learn to enjoy it.

On a side note: There's really no need anymore to photoshop a webpage. There's a javascript code you can type in the address bar, then hit return and you have complete access to the page. You can change anything you want (it mimics the font). You can change and move pictures, etc. It looks just like the real thing. Takes about 1 minute - then you can do a screen shot, and you're done.

I know you didn't do it - just sayin there's those who do quite easily.

Depends on what they are 'hating on'.

If it's hate for the sake of hate then give them your middle finger with a cherry on top.

If it's hate on something that actually needs to be fixed then i listen up and get it fixed.

It's like i always say - good feedback is nice but bad feedback makes you better.

Congrats Jeremy, you've made it!

People (and the government) HATE people who make money or have any type of success...

I once had a buyer who purchased from me, then flamed at me and asked for a refund after heaps of deragotary remarks...so first time I politely refunded him and didn't even say anything afterwards.

Then a few weeks later, after another product released, I had the same buyer telling me how stupid I was and all the negativity and told me that he would never buy from me again, and then asked for a refund....so second time I politely refunded him again and apologized for the product not fitting his bill...

Then a couple of weeks later, the same buyer bought another product from me, then told me the same old crap he told me earlier...this time round I was really pissed, and I told him off not to buy products again afterwhich I banned his IP and domain and emails from purchasing any of my products again....

...then I send him a payment of $20 telling him, that is so that he wouldn't buy from me again...that guy even got the cheek to keep it.... (now don't any warriors even dare pull that one on me coz I'm out of twenties)


But... well, some disguise feelings of envy with hate, because maybe hate is cooler than being a sore loser I guess.


-Al

Btw...I once had a friend who ran some kinda underground local metal outfit. He was the one spearheading gigs and what not, that kind of made the scene more popular....

But some bands actually hate him for doing so, so they set up a blog and even a gig calling it a 'hate tribute to _______ "

Darn, sometimes I wonder what do haters gain from this?

-Al

The dude put that comment in SB and blasted it out to 100,000 sites .. you just happened to have a screen shot :-)

Yeah of course, for everyone that is critical you call them haters.

Instead what you should do is to convince them you are not a fraud.

The job to convince is yours, not theirs.

Besides if you are really making bank as per you claim to be, you won't be pissed by so-called haters.