Chat rooms and skype, a curse or a blessing?

A bit of both I think. It is only recently that I involve more in chatrooms and in chats on TEs. At first I did not much with it and even kept my skypename a secret. My workload is pretty heavy and I felt chatting was a major distraction especially skype ones.

So I was only in a board room of business partners and I had some contacts with a selected few, some friends and some business partners.

A while back I started surfing more and started chatting a bit while doing that. I like the distraction when surfing. Members seem to like chatting also. It is through chatting while surfing that I came in contact with the owner of a TE Skype room where I was invited to.

These TE rooms are very busy at times. A lot of good mornings and hellos, crazy stuff and jokes. But also a great way to connect with other TE owners. Some of them are very knowledgeable a provided valuable insights which would have taken me longer to gain myself. Though the TE chat I was invited in the mousepoint chat which opened yet another door for me to build my TE. So I loose time on one end but win time and more good contacts on the other end.

They also announce webinars in the chat. Yesterday they announced one with Robert Puddy and I gained a free upgrade.

Skype is also a way for my members to contact me if they need assistance or have a question. I have my own Skype room for Surf-Bar-Traffic, my traffic exchange.

So all in all i see more advantages than disadvantages. However I am selective in what rooms I join and what contacts I add permanently. Lol I can do without the false Romeo's and the ones who only use skype to send affiliate links.

And of course I can go invisable or choose to ignore certain rooms when I am very busy.