You may have noticed that I recently took a short hiatus from blogging and deactivated my social media account on Instagram. I also removed myself from the wine social group I started on meetup.
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Life has been exhausting both personally and professionally, so I need to reset, refresh, and re-evaluate my life. My upcoming wine trip to Seattle in the great Pacific Northwest will hopefully provide me with some clarity and direction.
The truth is that my re-location to Central NY and Syracuse area in late 2024 has not paid off for my business “The Michael Pour” and myself.
My time and continuing efforts in blogging/writing, networking, marketing, and promoting in the community and online has not produced any leads, cooperation, real engagement and collaboration, and compensation. The reality is that no business can stay in business without customers. The business has essentially become a hobby at this point and need to devote my time and energy elsewhere.
Although I enjoy producing wine content, writing, educating, and sharing with all of you, my audience, it hasn’t yielded the results that I expected in order to keep it going. The lack of interaction, engagement, and business on social and from the content helps substantiate it. It would be helpful to know if people are reading and enjoying the content.
If my love, passion, and optimism return along with generating some interest from the local community, I will get back at it.
If not, or I find another opportunity, then I won’t return. It was a fun ride while it lasted. Maybe I go back to corporate America (ugh!), try something totally different and write about it, or relocate. I’m not getting any younger and have to think about my future. What’s meant to be, will be! For inspiration, I may need to re-read the classic book “The Alchemist”.
In the meantime, I encourage you to stay subscribed in case something magically happens in the next few months. If you care to offer any feedback or positive comments about your experience with the blog or myself or want this blog to continue, please respond. Greatly appreciated!
Cheers & Sante,
Michael
email – michael@michaelpour.com
phone – 717.877.2729