{"id":928,"date":"2007-05-16T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/who-needs-a-landline\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:28:51","slug":"who-needs-a-landline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/who-needs-a-landline\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs A Landline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_5896276?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional landline telephones, a federal survey showed Monday. Overall, the portion of adults with only cell phones grew by more than 2 percentage points in the latter half of last year to nearly 12 percent, an expansion rate that began in the first part of 2006 and was double earlier rates of growth. <strong>One in four people age 18 to 24 had only cell phones, as did 29 percent of those age 25 to 29<\/strong>, the study showed. The percentages declined with age after that, with 2 percent of those 65 or older having only cell phones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would say that is more than just a trend.&nbsp; We are seeing it amongst younger candidates too &#8211; the landline is less of a consideration for Gen Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our local Pioneer Press: More than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional landline telephones, a federal survey showed Monday. Overall, the portion of adults with only cell phones grew by more than 2 percentage points in the latter half of last year to nearly 12 percent, an expansion rate that began in the first part of 2006 and was double earlier rates of growth. One in four people age 18 to 24 had only cell phones, as did 29 percent of those age 25 to 29, the study showed. The percentages declined with age&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/who-needs-a-landline\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-eY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1520,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/relationships-drive-sales\/","url_meta":{"origin":928,"position":0},"title":"Relationships Drive Sales","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Selling has always been about relationships, but it is becoming more significant in today's world.\u00a0 According to a recent study referenced in this Selling Power.com article - The Relationship Imperative - product superiority is not as big a driver in customers' decision-making process. \"Product superiority used to be a big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Techniques&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Techniques","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-techniques\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":980,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/summer-vacations\/","url_meta":{"origin":928,"position":1},"title":"Summer Vacations","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This week school will be out for our kids and I found this SHRM article (membership required) interesting and timely. 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