WriterByNature.com

I’m an education junkie and I have been blessed with excellent teachers.

My commitment to understanding the natural world is increasingly important. Which means that I refuse to let my time be robbed by promises of improved business results. There’s no quick route to understanding nature, but if I can provide meaningful information and value, then I’ll have to live with that as my definition of success.

After digging through a month’s worth of emails dealing with the benefits of social networking as a business tool, as near as I can tell, you have to be online almost continually for these sites to provide any kind of traffic.

Whether that leads to an increase in your bottom line, depends upon what you are selling and how you are selling it. I’m not online enough to be good at this stuff. I’m very leery of sites that give you step-by-step ideas to follow. There’s a line between value and spam – I’m not sure where it is, but I’d rather not cross it.

My nature skills are rudimentary compared to the mastery I have witnessed in my studies. Unfortunately, wilderness skill instructors are not getting paid commensurate with their value. Too bad. Their information saves lives.

So, faced with following up another online blogger-for-pay lead and setting up a bait line to see what animals visit a near-by sandy area, I’ll be studying animal traffic. When it gets too cold to stay outdoors, I’ll sip herb tea and review my resource materials for answers to my instructors’ questions.