burnout

Over the past 10 years, I've had dozens of friends, who had successful online businesses, tell me that they were going to quit the Internet marketing business and do something else.

When SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) conducted its annual "State of Search" report in late 2005, it found that just about two-thirds of respondents planned to manage their SEM efforts in-house in 2006, rather than outsourcing the task to an agency.

A quote often attributed to Robert Frost reads, "If there is no discovery for the writer, there is none for the reader.

Duncan has posted on the topic of How to avoid blog burnout in one easy lesson where he suggest taking a break is a good way to sustain your blogging over a longer period of time.

Studies show that people with high EQ (emotional intelligence) are less likely to burn out. Managing our emotions and those of others, and how we react and respond, are crucial to our stress levels, resilience and ability to cope.

Interested in finding out just how stressed out you really are? I ran across this cool little online test and thought you guys might want to take it.