Adam and others that I follow, have caught their stride and do a great job of engaging in conversations with people and people seem to respond. It’s great to see.

I recently started following the posts of Scott Stratten from http://www.un-marketing.com and he seems pretty engaged with his followers and visa versa. Being new to social media, but not so new to business, I think that the important thing is to really understand the value that you can offer to relationships and let it flow.

Adam, would you agree? Or am I off base?

I’ve been following you because you offer a lot of great insights, but I’m not you. I’m not anyone but me. And sometimes this is tough to keep in mind as you see other people achieve levels of success.

The reason I’ve been successful throughout my career is because I’ve been “me”. When I try to be something other than me, I fail miserably.

I’ve got a lot to offer because of my experience and I really do enjoy the thought of participating and giving back. But I’ve been “trying too hard” as opposed to doing what I do best and letting “me” flow through.

I appreciate your blog and all of the advice that you give. It really helps out a lot. Thanks!

I mean, you may have a genuine passion for social media / communication, be relatively new to the field and not have an approval process for your blog yet see no engagement from friends, artists and writers, for example – does that represent trying to hard or simply a lack of quality?