With so much constantly changing in social media and business strategies for internet, new developments and apps, and who knows what else is around the corner, do you feel in a rush? Is there a time “hoop” that needs to be jumped through before it is too late? When is too late? Is there a race to be in front of things? How do you pace yourself? How do you, on the one hand, make sure you think through things enough but, on the other hand, don’t wait for the perfect time and miss it?

@deairby It’s tempting to jump on the next thing, but for many of us, it will wind up being a distraction. Taking us away from our focus without truly understanding where it fits in our plans is a slippery slope.

While I love the potential of new things, and many of us do, most of our businesses will not be harmed by our not being very early adopters. I have services, not a product that may or may not be the next trend.

I think it really comes down to knowing your customers and their behavior.

@joanmuschampfagnani @deairby With ever tighter agendas, in this fast paced world we are pressed. Perhaps we can only test out these new paradigms in an, occasional, experimental, manner only. I suppose the real test of early adoption, effecacy is a product of ROI, of time by interest.

Thanks, everyone, for your responses. I tend to be a bit ADOS (Attention Deficit Ooooo Shiny!) Easily tempted to chase the rabbits. With a strong business plan, more focus can be achieved and wiser choices made! (Now where did I put that paper?) @debbielynnava @durkbarton @joanmuschampfagnani @bernsteincrisis @trudy

Right now google+ seems to be where people are saying it is a “must do” with all its special benefits. Are you on THAT wagon? Why or why not? @trudy @donpurdum @debbielynnava @durkbarton @joanmuschampfagnani @bernsteincrisis

@deairby @joanmuschampfagnani

For better or worse, I’m just posting links to my blog and occassionally will ask a question. Interaction doesn’t seem to be anywhere near as high on Google+ as is Facebook.

But, I’m not stretching myself too thin right now by trying very hard either. I’m taking a wait and see approach with Google+. At some point, I will probably engage.

What I’m really curious about is how much people are using the video “Hangout” feature on Google+.

I am not on that wagon nor am I on BranchOut. Think I have a profile on each but do nothing with either.  We can all either spend all day and night on all of this social media or we can get out and network where it counts and make a few dollars to pay the bills. When you compare how many folks as spending hours on social media efforts and then discover how very few are earning any money from it, I relate it to EBay.  A few make tons of money while the majority on EBay only make a very small amount of money.  In both instances it may only be 1% of users are making money, the rest are wasting time chasing windmills.