Another Segal Survey - Phone Numbers

I'm freezing my (yeah that too) off here in Calgary.  Lord, who turned off the heat. 

I've been telling folks at the VC Roundtables, watch the trends as early as you can as they will impact your company, your ideas, and the decisions you make.

Consider this experiment/Survey:

I say the following:

"I can be reached at 416-367-2440"

Is that my:

Office, Home, Cell?  (Forget the who cares answer, wasn't part of the quiz)

When I ask 'young people' - those that are or I think are at or below 22- they almost always 'guess' cell phone.  Suits -obvious business people- assume it is my office number and of 40 or so people I asked over the past several days, nobody said home.

I use this an example of what I mean by trends.  If you had been doing this 10 years ago, those 'kids' wouldn't know about cell phones.  Just now in the Air Canada Lounge, some guy in an expensive (one I'll never afford) 3 piece suit just yelled into his phone: "I just sent you a text message with the code and if that doesn't work, I'll facebook it to you."

Yeah, facebook it.

Trends and changes, they are all around you.

Comments

[Geoff]

Rick -

Times do indeed change. The thought of home v office v mobile (can you get a pager any more?)doesn't ever occur to me anymore. If you gave me that number my only thought would be, "that's where he wants to be called." Anything more is irrelevant.