Great story!!!I’d wonder if the average tradesperson even knows what the cloud is.
I was chatting to my barber a few years ago and he asked how my week was going (as they do). As part of my rambling I must have said something about traffic. He just stopped and looked out the window at the road and asked “traffic?”. Doh... my bad. From then on I’ve eradicated traffic from my vocabulary.
Another time I was at a different barber waiting alongside two guys talking about their vans. One guy worked for himself doing deliveries. I ended up chatting to him when it was the other guy‘s turn in the chair.
When it was my turn to get my hair cut I continuing chatting with self-employed delivery van driver. I had my hands under the cover and couldn’t turn my head. I suggested he do some searches on his phone to pretend he was looking to get something delivered from County Kildare to County Dublin. “What would you search for?” I asked while watching him out of the corner of my eye.
He hunched over his phone deep in thought.
It was an interesting challenge trying to talk someone through it without being able to look at them (and without being able to wave my hands!).
The best bit was when this old barber stopped cutting my hair and started throwing suggested searches at the guy.
Curious what people’s takeaways are from those two little stories...
The “human-ness” that we spoke about last time we chatted was the first thing I thought of.
It’s not about traffic. It’s about people. I love meeting with someone and Googling stuff to see if their business pops up. It gets fun when they start suggesting searches for themselves. Watching their “aha” moment when they realize the long tail is where the buyers are is always satisfying.
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