For many years I’ve said that social platforms are for social networking, while LinkedIn is for business networking. And while I’ve preached that for a very long time, I haven’t always practiced it. I’ve relied on my personal network and phone calls. However wonderful my network is, they are either sick of me, have golden handcuffs, or just aren’t interested in business the way I am.
Ben Franklin created the “Junto” when he was a printer (also called the leather apron club,) so that like-minded people could sit down at the same table and talk about their businesses, and other business ideas, life, society, and how to do good things.
I find it extremely hard to have business conversations with people today, as most people are too busy or they don’t have the interest in moving forward. Save, a few good friends, who more than likely just put up with me, I miss the early 90s when the internet was new and ideas were everywhere, and the people I associated with were excited about creating new things.
I’ve been working on MouseMingle for almost 10 years now, and I haven’t given it the attention it needs (or deserves,) and I haven’t moved it forward. I recognize that a lot of that time has been spent in far less fulfilling work and plenty of laziness. I’d like to make the dating site for Disney fans more popular and grow it, and that means rolling up my sleeves and focusing on it. There’s a lot of potential there. A lot of people have met and gotten married from the site. It’s a wonderfully happy thing that doesn’t involve selling chemicals or pushing products that aren’t really needed. At the same time, that old adage of ‘it takes money to make money’ is absolutely real! But, if you don’t put in the sweat equity first, you can’t complain that there isn’t enough money to grow the business.
