It's for you
Today I was making a list of Trusted Business Partners for Towne & Country- the TCTP list. The purpose of this list is multi-fold: should a client request some names, these could be given. If we need a guest blogger, this would be the pool we would ask first. If we have a question, these people would be trusted to give an honest informative answer. If they want, we will let them know about new posts on the company blog. I would hope that Towne & Country is on THEIR lists.
I got the list of names from Gerry, and began the work of putting together current phone numbers and emails. Should be easy, because everyone is on the Internet. Right?
Right?
Wrong, Diane.
I understand privacy issues. I’m in real estate, and had real issues about my phone number and everything else about me being all over the place. This was until I saw an ad from a real estate agent who claimed that he answered every call within 15 minutes… 24/7. Only awake 3rd shift? No problem! Have your best ideas about marketing your home after your 10th cup of coffee, when those infomercials are on? Sure, give us a call!
Well, guess what? I don’t know if I can go the 24/7 route that this guy is, but I had better be available and responsive. If people would rather email than call, I better have my email address somewhere that you can find it.
So what is the deal with people in business who don’t? Is that extra little bit of privacy worth more than the (I would bet my life) substantial number of people who are looking for them and move right on down the line when they can’t be found?
If you are afraid of junk email, get a domain from GoDaddy, buy an email package with it, and set it up to forward to your main email account. Or keep it separate, and get in the habit of checking 2 accounts a day.
On the flip side, it was a pleasure confirming Frank DiMaria’s information. Everything is there on a clean-looking page, including an email that is short and sweet- not 70chars@100chars.com. Thanks, Frank, for making my life easier. And for making it easier to find you in a world full of attorneys, and, well, real estate agents.
And thank you, Christine, for taking the bull by the horns and sending me ALL of the email addresses. Christine, you RAWK!
