Comments on: SMM Countdown – How Social Are You Ready For?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:20:56 +0000

You’ve decompressed your presence, John, and for you right now, that’s the best way to go. I don’t know that I could have kept up with all the things you were doing before. Now, you’re kind of shrinking your world to be more local; nothing wrong with that.

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:59:29 +0000

Good morning, Mitch.

I’m happy with what I’m doing with social networking these days.

Over the last few years, I’ve joined and tested dozens of sites, but now I’ve boiled it down to a handful that work well for me and which I enjoy.

Twitter is falling off my radar, mostly, and Facebook is climbing. I still post announcements to Twitter, but prefer to carry on conversations on Facebook.

I’m down to two blogs that I update infrequently.

I’m on Facebook every day for an hour or two – rarely longer unless it’s a day I don’t feel like doing anything else, but I’m feeling better now and don’t expect to have many more of those days.

I’ve killed my forums and still manage a couple of Ning communities.

So, I’m down to a comfortable level where I’m interacting with friends and family for the most part, at least while my marketing business is suspended.

When I get back to serious marketing, again, I plan to go deeper on the current sites rather than shallower on multiple new sites.

Like you, I get lots of invitations to join new sites and be friends, but I’m past all that, now. I’m going to concentrate on the ones that work the best and ignore the others.

That’s why I’ve moved from Ryze and MySpace to Facebook. It works better.

Hope your workshop is a great success!

Act on your dream!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:54:29 +0000

Thank you; I hope so as well.

By: Pandora letter bead

Pandora letter bead — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:52:46 +0000

Thanks Mitch for your sharing. Hope your workshop goes well.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:34:21 +0000

Thanks Val. And sometimes getting away from it all will bring a fresh perspective.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:15:47 +0000

I don’t know how relevant this is to your post, but I had a better day today and as I usually spend most days glued to my own and other people’s blogs, making connections, I thought – hey, I’ve got more energy, I can connect better! So what did I do? I avoided the internet most of the day! Just couldn’t be bothered, it didn’t seem all that important. Isn’t that strange?

By the way, just want to say – hope your workshop goes well for you.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:54:32 +0000

Read and responded. lol And it can easily happen, unfortunately.

By: Carolee

Carolee — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:28 +0000

I was guilty in the “beginning” of joining any social networking group out there and TRYING to advertise on their groups everyday.

You can spend all day just advertising, chatting or blogging.

You really have to set limits.

LOL- I wrote about wasting time with Free Advertising on my blog today