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Social Media Explorer: The Bonsai Method of Social Media Management

  • Daniel · 1 year ago
    Great analogy, Jason. Would it be ironic if I say I probably don't have time to tend to a bonsai tree?
  • KatFrench · 1 year ago
    It would be ironic if you meant it literally, because bonsai tending was one of your personal hobbies.

    If you mean it figuratively, then it's not ironic, grammatically speaking. It does however mean that you have not yet realized that you have to tend the metaphorical bonsai in order to recoup more time. Egg, meet chicken. Chicken, egg.

    When you can pluck the pebble from my hand, grasshopper...
  • JasonFalls · 1 year ago
    Kat wrote it, D. But yes it is. And yes, it would be ironic I suppose. Guess it all depends on how important and which bonsai tree is to you.
  • Bonsai Masters · 1 year ago
    Very Interesting post, Thank you for sharing all the points to discover the great way to maintain the Healthy Bonsai.
  • Erin McMahon · 1 year ago
    Excellent analogy. Inspired by comments @ SMCLou. August meeting? [For non-attendees, I ask b/c of related comments/questions at the end of Jason's talk at the Social Media Club Louisville meeting on Monday.]

    You got-a pictcha? Good - now make-a like-a pictcha.

    <3 Karate Kid.
  • adamcohen · 1 year ago
    Great analogy but it also points out that social media efforts can only scale the same way. A large scale effort would be like maintaining a forrest of Bansai. Not impossible but requires a lot of effort.

    Love Karate Kid. "Focus. Always look eye."
  • Pete Austin · 1 year ago
    Bonsai trees are about crushing something natural into a tiny space, like battery chickens.

    Experienced gardeners propagate from seeds or cuttings; they don't assume that the trunk will survive. That way, if your tree is killed by frost or whatever, you have alternatives to continue with.

    Obviously you don't want a forest of trees/relationships, but also you don't want just one.
  • Sean Jagodzinski · 10 months ago
    Excellent post and analogy. Recently I got a new thing going, and some just don't like it. I had to trim myself back, and concentrate more on my core audience, long with support from those closest to me.
  • John · 9 months ago
    An interesting concept that is for sure. Odd that I can relate to the ideas just a little better put this way than some of the others that I have read.
  • Health_Campus · 3 months ago
    Very very interesting post..I like this one. gotta bookmark this one.

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    healthcampus.net