May 6, 2009

Technology never fails to amaze me

I am fascinated by the advances in technology.  It seems to me that the advances are moving in great leaps and bounds in the past couple of decades.  When you take a look at how many centuries it took mankind to develop things such as railroads, cars, electricity and the like the progress was very slow going.  I can remember going to the Epcot Center when it first opened in the 1980s and went through the ride in the big globe and thought about how futuristic the scene was of people talking face to face from across different continents to each other using computers and web cams, and how that technology is in widespread use in my own lifetime, it just amazes me!

And I can remember when mobile telephones first came out, how large and cumbersome they were.  The first mobile phones that my wife and I had were hardwired into our cars, were about the size of a lunch box, and they actually had cords to attach the telephones to the base!  And even having those phones was considered a major luxury!  Now the cell phones are a necissity of life – if my wife leaves the house without hers, she goes into a panic!  And all of our kids have to have cell phones, too, so my wife and I can reach them, and they reach us, in case of emergency!  My goodness, how life has changed!  Now my cell phone fits in the palm of my hand and is completely cordless.  I think it is truly amazing how quickly the cell phone technology has evolved.

My sister in law is in the real estate market part time, and she has been telling me about a new use for her cell phone.  She uses it for Mobile Marketing. She says that Cellit Mobile Marketing provides a wide variety of marketing tools that can be used by her cellphone. She says that it makes her computers almost obsolete! She said that they can help her promote her business with games and contests that keep her clients interested and her company name in the forefront of their minds.  She said that she can use couponzap.com to create coupons that help her to promote her restaurant business too.

She says that she loves their House4Cell services for her real estate business – she can send and receive information about properties for sale from her phone to her client’s cell phone. Information such as photographs, square footage, and pricing information in her client’s reach within seconds! She says that’s a great service to have.