reply: no budget

[Kenneth W. Burton]

	Jim,

	One thing that worked well for me after coming to Calgary was
advertising through the Welcome Wagon organization. In that way, my
services were offered to newcomers to the community.

	Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 JMScherer@aol.com wrote:

>
> Thanks, Keith McGavern, Jeff Hickey, and Jon Page for your input. Let me
> comment one by one.
>
> Keith, I would be glad to wait until asked, having left my card, if I were
> already established and had a built up business. However, with only two or
> three tunings a week coming in, I need to be more aggresive (not obnoxious,
> of course). Like I said there are a LOT of tuners in my area. I have
> contacted all the public and private schools, nearly all the churches, & the
> nursing homes, retirement villages. I would say that 99.5% of the ones who
> have pianos already have a tuner. Likewise the music stores and music
> schools.
>
> Jon, I have also gone around door to door, which I enjoy. About one third of
> my customers have come from that, and they all seem very happy with my work.
>
> Jeff, you have given me some good ideas. I think I will try to talk a bit
> more to some of the music teachers - starting with the ones I had when taking
> some classes a few years ago when I was in the area for a year. And I will
> certainly recommend the PTG's piano page for the "wired" ones. It's great!
>
> Have a great Lord's day all! - Wally
>