Three Text Theory

"the ‘last three texts’ theory uses those messages exchanged between you and your beloved to assess the state of your relationship"

I can imagine what everyone does the moment they learn of this...

Let us, if we can, move beyond the close-to-home.

Does it translate to us and our prospects?

I have come across sales teams where it is pushed that they connect into whatsapp chat with their potential client asap.

While I'm not sold on that as a distinctive process marker, there is bound to be some kind of digital trail between vendor and buyer.

Being professional at all times is the guide. Yet we all know the occasional 'meme' can enter the fray. Even thirty years back I recall receiving something not strictly in keeping with the confines of the bidding at hand. In all its fuzzy, greyed and NSFW fax glory. Which the boss thought was brilliant to get sent our way.

Such message trails can start innocently.

'can we put today's call back half-hour?'

Functional, administrative, innocuous. Relatively.

How often do they stay there?

Where some swear by the business relationship bonds such an instant channel can lubricate, it remains by its very nature informal.

Away from the dad jokes, meeting date options or mini progress updates, there are things that lend themselves to the medium.

Particularly where an actual email need not apply.

Verifying brief elements of the pitch. One-line summary of what the next get-together is about. A quick This or That.

If you see any texts healthily here, you're on track. And not a reaction emoji in sight.