Okay. Shoot me...but answer my question first.

angevin1 · March 2, 2011

Is not having a phone with which to text and receive texts going to prevent me from having adequate communication with my local social world?

How about business world?

...is that the new form of communication?

Is that easier than phoning?

How is it better?

Thanks in advance

SimpsonBrothers · March 2, 2011

It does make life easier.
I've had clients text to say they were going to be late, or cancel. Sometimes it's a facebook message.

Customers can contact me via: Twitter, Facebook, DGrin, Email, Phone, Text, Tumblr, Instant Messaging

All of those go to my phone, which I can respond to immediately.

Just another option for communication with your customers...

angevin1 · March 2, 2011

SimpsonBrothers wrote: »

It does make life easier.
I've had clients text to say they were going to be late, or cancel. Sometimes it's a facebook message.

Customers can contact me via: Twitter, Facebook, DGrin, Email, Phone, Text, Tumblr, Instant Messaging

All of those go to my phone, which I can respond to immediately.

Just another option for communication with your customers...

Very good points! Thanks for chiming in!

Art Scott · March 2, 2011

I hate texting and look upon it as telling me the message is not worth actually speaking to me about.....it is extremely impersonal .......if you want to text then send it to my email not my phone.... I bulk delete all texts never read them....

ThatCanonGuy · March 5, 2011

angevin1 wrote: »

Is not having a phone with which to text and receive texts going to prevent me from having adequate communication with my local social world?

Probably.

How about business world?

Probably not.

...is that the new form of communication?

Is that easier than phoning?

How is it better?

Thanks in advance

Well, it's sometimes easier, sometimes not. If you want to say, "pick me up a bag of chips while you're out" then texting is easier. If you want to talk about what prints a client wants, then talking is better. It's not "the new form of communication"; texting does make life easier for some, but it will not replace phone, in my not-so-humble opinion. Texting is good for, say you're doing an event, communicating with a fellow photog a couple hundred yards away. (I guess two-way radios would work there also).

Of course, it's cheaper than phone. Last time I checked AT&T, it's $70 for unlimited phone and $15 for unlimited text (both per month). I think both have their place, and both can and will coexist.

Of course, that's assuming you have a full keyboard on you device, which you should have anyway.

angevin1 · March 5, 2011

I'm ambivalent over it. I am not at all convinced. if a person wants to work with you and cannot take the time to connect to you via your preferred method....see ya next time.

Granted, if indeed I did have LOTS of on location action happening, I'd be wired..but...until then~

thanks one and all for giving input!

ThatCanonGuy · March 5, 2011

If phone is your preferred method then there's nothing wrong with that. Texting can just sometimes make your and your clients' lives easier. Sometimes

pathfinder · March 6, 2011

I have a good friend who lives in the country, and has really poor AT&T coverage for his iPhone. Voice conversations never succeeds, but he can send and receive text, and text that he is leaving and will be at the destination on time, and I get the message.

I am not really a texter, but I have learned it can be quite useful at times, to reach folks that cannot currently answer their phone, like maybe they are busy driving through an intersection......

Texting is easier for the recipient than retrieving a voice mail, I think that is one of its appeals...

angevin1 · March 6, 2011

pathfinder wrote: »

Texting is easier for the recipient than retrieving a voice mail, I think that is one of its appeals...

That is the key message I keep getting! Thanks~

Angelo · March 6, 2011

just saying...

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/comscore-says-you-dont-got-mail-web-email-usage-declines-59-among-teens/

angevin1 · March 6, 2011

Angelo wrote: »

just saying...

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/comscore-says-you-dont-got-mail-web-email-usage-declines-59-among-teens/

Yeah...D'uh! I have no idea why I forgot to search for stats/trends! Thanks!

Andy · March 6, 2011

Art Scott wrote: »

I hate texting and look upon it as telling me the message is not worth actually speaking to me about.....it is extremely impersonal .......if you want to text then send it to my email not my phone.... I bulk delete all texts never read them....

welcome to 10 years ago. Texting is growing more than emailing. You can stick in the mud, or be smart and be wherever clients are going to be. Text, Facebook, Twitter, Email, phone, it's all good for me

Gary Peterson Photography · March 6, 2011

Seriously?

Art Scott wrote: »

I hate texting and look upon it as telling me the message is not worth actually speaking to me about.....it is extremely impersonal .......if you want to text then send it to my email not my phone.... I bulk delete all texts never read them....

Not even a peek?

Molotov Everything · March 11, 2011

Look at it from the other side too, why not have a phone that handles texts? I was just recently shopping around for cell phone plans and the cost of a text package is pretty insignificant. For anything less than a paragraph I'd prefer getting a text to an email or phone call, and I'd take any one of those over a voicemail any day. I can read it and reply at my leisure. For instance, if someone calls me when I'm driving I'm almost never going to pick up and then who knows when I'm going to check the voice mail if they leave one. If they text me while I'm driving I'm still not going to check it while driving but when I stop I can get the message quick.

angevin1 · March 12, 2011

Molotov Everything wrote: »

Look at it from the other side too, why not have a phone that handles texts? I was just recently shopping around for cell phone plans and the cost of a text package is pretty insignificant.

Actually that is a part of it. I do not own a Cellular phone. So what I have to think about is is the price of a plan and phone going to be offset by it's convenience. And for me it would be facilitating a convenience, as far as I see, for others.

Andy wrote: »

welcome to 10 years ago. Texting is growing more than emailing. You can stick in the mud, or be smart and be wherever clients are going to be. Text, Facebook, Twitter, Email, phone, it's all good for me

Ha! Cute! Barely ten years ago I swore to anyone who'd listen I was D.O.N.E. with being on the leading edge of technology! The Software I had to use for my business was expensive (Even today makes Adobe Suites looks cheap!) and had to be updated regularly as well as attending schools over and over to keep me in the loop. Yet the demographic I was immersed in was Poor, naturally suspicious of outsiders, and very rural. Cell phone signals were only found by and large on top of the mountains within which we dwelled: Can you hear me now? comes to mind.

The place I live now is taking me awhile to understand. I don't have a customer base and haven't been actively pursuing one. I've been busy in other aspects of the whole.

Interesting place though. You can see signs with Fried Chicken Gizzards 6 for $3.99, displayed outside Mom-n-Pop convenience stores. And the refrigerated section of the local Grocer has Chitlins by the gallon in full view!

Okay. Shoot me...but answer my question first.

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