{"id":1896,"date":"2009-02-13T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/02\/never-out-of-office\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:43:27","slug":"never-out-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/02\/never-out-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Out Of Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m traveling to Palm Springs, CA today for a trade show.\u00a0 Let me just say that a California trade show is a blessed thing to a Minnesotan in February.\u00a0 Anyway, I didn\u2019t put an email message saying I will be out of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Why even use that feature in Outlook?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my rationale, I receive all of my emails on my cell phone.\u00a0 They are pushed to me so I actually get notified the moment they arrive.\u00a0 I have my laptop with me and the hotel has wireless internet which is to be expected these days.\u00a0 I may be physically out of the office, but I am still connected.<\/p>\n<p>I am never truly out of the office.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that has changed drastically in sales today is the fact that customers and prospects will not wait for me to get back in the office.\u00a0 Business moves faster than that.\u00a0 Companies operate on a JIT basis.\u00a0 Delaying something 3 days today is similar to 3 weeks just a couple of decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have written this post, I am certain that I will get nailed by a few people (Benidt, I suspect) for my sloth-like email response times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m traveling to Palm Springs, CA today for a trade show.\u00a0 Let me just say that a California trade show is a blessed thing to a Minnesotan in February.\u00a0 Anyway, I didn\u2019t put an email message saying I will be out of the office. Why even use that feature in Outlook? Here\u2019s my rationale, I receive all of my emails on my cell phone.\u00a0 They are pushed to me so I actually get notified the moment they arrive.\u00a0 I have my laptop with me and the hotel has wireless internet which is to be expected these days.\u00a0 I may be physically out of the office, but I am still connected.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/02\/never-out-of-office\/\">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":[14,9],"tags":[1760,1205,241,1206,1167,1204],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-sales-techniques","tag-communication","tag-email-availability","tag-email-communication","tag-sales-hours","tag-sales-travel","tag-travel-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-uA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/the-end-of-trade-shows\/","url_meta":{"origin":1896,"position":0},"title":"The End of Trade Shows","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As someone who has attended many trade shows in my career, I was most intrigued by this short note in a recent Sales & Marketing Management email (sorry, no link): How bad are trade shows? 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