I’m Conference Exhausted

Not sure if anyone noticed, but I haven’t posted anything to this blog in a week. For anybody who tries to make a living blogging, that isn’t a good idea. I’m not making any money with this particular site, but still, going a week between posts isn’t really a super idea for most blogs.

The reason for it is that I am conference exhausted. I knew it would happen. I went to Gnomedex in Seattle. After a little break, then I hit IzeaFest in Orlando, BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, and I will be attending BlogOrlando in (you guessed it) Orlando this weekend. Gnomedex was different, but the other three all revolve around the same themes. Not only that, I start to see the same people at each event.

In addition to the conferences, I am also doing some local meetups. I’m doing a blogger meetup every month in Tampa. I’m doing Barcamp Tampa Bay in a couple weeks. I am also now part of two internet marketing groups: one private mastermind group and another a more general internet marketing meetup. We meet every couple weeks, and now we’re looking at sprinkling conference calls into that mix in the evenings.

It isn’t that I am so much tired of doing all this. It is more that when you pile that much together, it starts to really eat into my time in the office and with my family. And if I’m not in the office much, I can’t execute any of these ideas I’m coming up with. I can’t blog as much. Or I find that I have to forego some of that work-related stuff so that my daughter doesn’t forget who the hell I am.

I decided this year to get out of my cocoon and start really networking with my community. This is a very social business I’m in, and computer relationships can never replace real-world relationships. This is why I take the time and spend the money to meet up with people and fly around the country. I’m very happy I’ve done this and I’ve met a lot of great people.

BlogOrlando will be my last conference that I have to travel to – at least for a few months. Nothing else is on my schedule for the remainder of the year – at least right now. Of course, next year I’ll be making the rounds again.

I am looking forward to staying put and really putting the fire to some of these projects which have been stalled for the last several weeks.

This Friday night will be my last stay in a hotel room for at least a few months. And that I am looking forward to. I like traveling and networking, but when you can’t bring your family with you, it starts to suck.

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