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Originally Posted by dafischer
As a business owner, it's not so vital to me. My wife and I have a tax and accounting practice, and anything received after hours can wait until we are back in the office. We're not likely to gain or lose business if a call or e-mail isn't returned immediately after business hours or on a weekend.
If I wanted to communicate with my wife who was 25 ft. away, I'd get up and go talk to her, or hit the intercom on our office phone system. Why be a slave to a device?
Different strokes and all...
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I totally understand. Accounting is a professional service with IRS mandated deadlines that everyone knows the schedule.
Our business has clients all over the country, and we are a total at the mercy of clients wanting to use us over some other aerial photography company. One of our big clients is based in New York City, the other big client is in Colorado. If they call or email at any time, we respond right now. We just leased a Cessna 172 and did everything via phone calls and email up to the point of going to the airport where it was and fly it off and take possession.
And no I am NOT a slave to my phone. I can indeed leave it in silent mode and deal with routine issues during normal work hours. But if it a project that might pay us enough to buy an airplane outright, yep I deal with it now.