I have had a wide variety of people in the car lately. Through volunteering for the NHL, I have been interacting with some players, owners, musicians and others. Oddly, there is one thing I have noticed that I hadn't seen previously...
Texting.
Seriously.
Players that are 23 years old are sitting in the van pounding out text after text since they spent the previous few hours on a plane. 60 year old executives are doing the same thing. The 40 year old and 25 year old musicians were in the same mode... and everyone in between.
The only threads that carried between these people is that they are busy, successful and not in their home area. But, they were of a variety of ages, races, nationalities and economic strata. Agents, players, owners, retired players, celebrities... all of them were texting more than calling.
I have been hearing about it... and doing it some. But, the level that I have seen over the last few days has been surprising.
And do you know what?
I wish they were texting our assignments. It would have been so much easier than getting the call and writing everything down. I know that the Nextels are great for keeping in touch fast, but I wonder if texting would be more efficient, leaving the voice calls for confirmation and problem solving.
So, I think that my real estate business is going to be involving texting more and more... email to text message could be a seriously cool tool... I'm not that fast with the thumb pad.
**If you didn't notice, the guy in the hat in the forground is sending a text...**
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