WebProWorld
I think conferences are great for coming up with business ideas and making meaningful friendships and business relationships, and I would not have as many opportunities as I have now unless I went to many conferences back in the day.
But I think I have been going to about 8 or 10 conferences a year for the past couple years and have got burned out on them. I am going to be at Elite Retreat this year, but am hoping that I can take a break otherwise.
When the web was relatively new, I worked with a large insurance company to help them begin a monitoring program, this in the days before eWatch and other monitoring services. After the program was in place for a few weeks, the media relations manager got in touch with me to tell me how much time the effort was taking. A few months later, though, he reported that what initially was taking him several hours now got done in 15 to 20 minutes.
What happened? Something new and alien evolved into a routine.
One question online community operators wrestle with is how many communities (social networks, blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) one individual can participate in.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve had dozens of friends, who had successful online businesses, tell me that they were going to quit the Internet marketing business and do something else.
When SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) conducted its annual “State of Search” report in late 2005, it found that just about two-thirds of respondents planned to manage their SEM efforts in-house in 2006, rather than outsourcing the task to an agency.
A quote often attributed to Robert Frost reads, “If there is no discovery for the writer, there is none for the reader.
Duncan has posted on the topic of How to avoid blog burnout in one easy lesson where he suggest taking a break is a good way to sustain your blogging over a longer period of time.
Studies show that people with high EQ (emotional intelligence) are less likely to burn out. Managing our emotions and those of others, and how we react and respond, are crucial to our stress levels, resilience and ability to cope.
Interested in finding out just how stressed out you really are? I ran across this cool little online test and thought you guys might want to take it.
