What Do You Do When the Reviews Are NOT What You Hoped For? 2

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What do you do, when you work really hard on something, run it by the people you respect the most and the reviews are NOT want you hoped for?

Getting feedback is an “interesting” exercise. While I don’t believe in the “the masses rule” over individual expression, it’s clear that to have the impact you want with the audience you desire, the audience’s feedback should be considered carefully.

If you are anything like me, you would love to have everyone come back with “Wow! Amazing, Perfect, Wonderful” but the truth is often more helpful — and due to the individual nature of art — often contradictory.

I try not to let it happen, but have to admit, It often hits me hard when I work on something really hard and then someone finds fault with it.

When that happens I try to just take a bit of time, possibly get more viewpoints and reflect on what the truth is.

The reason we try to get early feedback from trusted friends is so we can make things better before we expose it to a wider audience.

I try to make sure that I don’t ignore any unpleasant truths — knowing that what I do is NEVER going to be perfect and at some point soon I need to lock it in and put it out there.

Then I make revisions and when I’ve done the best I can, I just release all of those critical comments and let the world make its own judgment.

What do YOU do?

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Ken McArthur

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Ken McArthur is the founder of ConnectLab.live, an AI relationship-intelligence and warm-intro platform that helps founders who are raising find the funds that fit and the people who can introduce them, and helps fund managers connect with the founders they back. He was recently accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry. He also writes Raise Smarter, a daily newsletter on what's really moving in early-stage fundraising. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact, whether we want to or not, on thousands of people we touch in our day-to-day lives, and he shows that simple things make a HUGE difference. ConnectLab.live grew out of that belief. Connection is the currency of the 21st Century, and the right introduction can change a company's future. Long before ConnectLab, Ken was the popular host of live events that brought together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to build multi-million dollar joint venture relationships. He has managed product launches ranked in the top 400 sites on the Internet and is regularly asked to speak at leading marketing events. He created AffiliateShowcase.com, a pioneering affiliate program search engine and directory. He also founded the MBS Internet Research Center, which conducted the world's largest survey ever attempted on creating and launching successful information products. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from zero to over $100,000 in less than 8 days, a proof of concept documented in Info Product Blueprint. Today he puts that same skill for connecting people and launching ideas to work for founders and the investors who back them.

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2 thoughts on “What Do You Do When the Reviews Are NOT What You Hoped For?”

  • Ruth Comeaux

    As of yet, I have no website. After a long string of unwise investments and spending a sizable amount of money, (I’m left with an empty wallet), a damaged ego, and a brain empty of new ideas. I simply need to take a break, regenerate wasted energy, act my age, begin to re-collect my thoughts.
    I did really appreciate your remarks about “What do you do when the reviews are not what you hoped for”. That in itself was an uplifting concept. RUTH COMEAUX (a real southern “Cajun” girl {a 76 year old widow} from deep-down south in Louisiana, eleven miles (as the crow flies) for the Gulf of Mexico.