Over at The Lawyerist, Sam Glover is having a contest for the best lawyer website, a contest I would never win as I hate mine.
I skimmed his piece and then went to get a haircut.
My barbershop has a rotary phone, which you can see here. And an old time cash register.
The shop doesn’t have a Twitter or Facebook account, no Flikr, Tumblr or Instagram.
What they do is this: They give good haircuts at a good price. There is a barber’s pole attached to the building.
I don’t care what business you are in, be it goods or service, this is something to think about: That barbershop is always crowded.
I have the rotary desk phone from my childhood on my desk at home. It’s heavy, has a real bell inside it, it dials surely and cleanly, it rings because a little metal “hammer” strikes a round bell and when you pick up the handset, you feel the weight of the people and machines who built it. In short, its authentic, its real.
Clients and juries appreciate authentic lawyers.
Thanks for the great post.
Steve
I have the rotary desk phone from my childhood on my desk at home. It’s heavy, has a real bell inside it, it dials surely and cleanly, it rings because a little metal “hammer” strikes a round bell and when you pick up the handset, you feel the weight of the people and machines who built it.
And it will also continue to work in a power outage, if still plugged into the regular telephone lines. Of course, that doesn’t mean the folks you are trying to call will have working service…
And it will also continue to work in a power outage, if still plugged into the regular telephone lines. Of course, that doesn’t mean the folks you are trying to call will have working service…
Well, with some reservations, I agree. During hurricane/”super storm” Sandy our hill was without power for 6 days, but regular (“POTS”) phones were also crippled by that fact that lines and poles were down all over the place. The first service to come back was cell service because ATT powered their cell towers with portable generators. And the downed lines to these towers were repaired first.
If you really need completely uninterrupted service, your best bet would be a satellite phone — assuming you can get access to the sky.
But, kudos Eric, for knowing that POTS has its own power supply from the Central Office — providing that the wires are functional.
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