Crowdsourcing.

Someone I know wants to open a niche restaurant/pub place and I said that he could ask me questions.  When he found out that I was a stay at home dad he offered me the manager job.  Nope.  He offered again later on.  Nope.  He tried to sweeten the deal with various incentives but, no.  I'm out of that industry.

I did offer to help him with ideas and such though.  He created a Facebook private group for people to bounce ideas off of their peers, give him information and for him to disseminate information to the people that will be starting it (except me).  You're giving me a forum to pontificate about something I know quite a bit about?  Sweet.

I was putting stuff on this puppy once a day like clockwork in addition to posting to this blog.  I was getting tired.  It's easy to bang on a keyboard but the whole creating on demand is a completely different animal.  It got to the point that I was the only person posting anything.  I thought that the group was for open dialogues not just for me to teach you about the F&B industry.  Then I wondered.

I wondered what would happen if I just posted something silly, like a stream of consciousness word vomit thing.  I did it.  That post started off with a normal bit about something (math) and had some actual ideas and concerns then it went sideways.  Fluffy bunnies dancing in the moonlight singing sha na na na was mentioned.

One person (the owner) noticed and commented but no one else.  I did another 30 something posts after that and then since the well was getting dry I asked for requests, none came so I stopped.

One person wanted to crowdsource a business plan but only one person was trying.  Think about that the next time you ask someone for help.