It’s tough when people criticize your business. You work hard, but you can’t please everyone. And you won’t always feel that the criticism is warranted or even reasonably phrased.

I had a case like that recently on my Home with the Kids website. The newsletter had an article by me about starting a home business on a budget. It covered some of the possiblities for home businesses that could be started without spending a lot of money.

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One reader took me to task for not discussing the details of how to start a website, blogging and HTML. And it’s quite true that the article didn’t go into those areas. That’s too much for an article. I did appreciate however, that he suggested it would be a good topic for an ecourse.

After all, it would be. And it’s an idea that has long been on my to-do list.

Sadly, this is not an announcement of such an ecourse. When I do that, it will be pretty carefully researched and written, not one of those reports that are typed out in an hour or so. Gimme time. I have a lot on my plate and if there’s one thing I hate to outsource, it’s my writing. I love writing.

I’ll be the first to admit that even light criticism can sting when people take aim at something you’ve worked hard on. But what you need to do is not let it ruin your day. Take a good look at why you were criticized and see if there’s something to be learned from it or something you can do about it.

Of course, sometimes you can’t do anything about it. You can occasionally hear from people who are mean simply to be mean. In those cases the best you can do is to not let it bother you.

And laugh if an attack that was meant to be mean actually gives you a helpful new perspective. It can happen.

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