Self promotion is hard to do. Usually someone has a tuner, and unless they are dissatisfied they are unwilling to change. Word of mouth is the best way to get known. Advertise in the paper, the few customers that it will bring in will tell friends, and so on. I have found that newspaper ads work to a small degree but then word gets out from there. It'll take years to build a client base. In the meantime I suggest filling your time with speculation pianos: Buy a piano (not too rough), fix it up; sell it (ad in paper). Keep doing that. Funny, the local college called me to service their pianos and I refered them to another tuner. You see, I've had to stop tuning to keep up with rebuilding and spec work. I prefer to work in the shop. The way it is evolving is, I send tuning to the people here who like to tune; and they send me the repair work. It works fro me. Don't give up, it'll take time. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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