Which is harder: Your Social Network or Your Business?

For my first blog post here at Apsense, I would like to address something that just literally occurred to me.

Which is harder and more time-consuming - setting up and running your business or setting up and running your social network (such as Apsense)?

Both take a lot of effort, time, and decision making. Both are important to the survival and success of your business.

More importantly, how do you allot appropriate time to both areas without hurting either one? You can spend hours a day posting to your groups here at Apsense. But you need to spend time at your business(es) tweaking your website, adding products, attending to customer service requests, making sure your inventory is up-to-date, link exchanges, learning new webmaster skills, etc etc etc.

Sometimes, I just want to bang my head on the desk. I know we can move Daylight Savings Time around here in the US ... but can't we also add more hours to the day? *chuckles* I for one could do with about 30 hours per day. Between social networking, running my 3 businesses, housework (I work from home), chatting with friends online, doing personal research online, and doing personal fun stuff offline (reading, cross stitch, etc) ... that lives little time for sleep, eating, and 'vegging' in front of the TV to wind down. Geez, I'm winded just typing all that! LOL.

So ... how do you juggle all the necessary elements of running a business? Do you setup a strict schedule each day on how long you will attend to each element? Do you just go with the flow of the day?

I want to have fun running my businesses. I just didn't realize having fun was such hard work!

~Barbara Eyre