Hello Martin After 25 years in the tuning business, Let me tell you my experience with advertising. Newspaper, (Daily Paper) never worked for me. Weekly Papers, Still does not give you enough people. I started with the local dealers, giving them an A1 service at very good price. I started working for a year with a Wurlitzer dealer here for a fixed wage, terribly necessary, to acquire experience. After that I offered my services to several other dealers, this time paid by tuning, and offering them a very good rebate if they recommended me. They started sending me to cover warranty tunings, and that gave me the chance to start getting in contact with customers. This way I met several piano teachers, which are the ones that send me more clients. Once you have some clients it is worth to have your name at the Yellow Pages, in I have very few clients coming through Yellow Pages, but many of my known customers know were to locate me when they loose my phone. The only ad that really works in these profession is personal recommendations. My advise is to start with dealers, schools, churches, where your work can be seen and heard of. Elian Degen ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Dubow <tuner@mediaone.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 5:35 PM Subject: Advertising > I'm pretty much just getting started. What are your opinions about the > best way of advertising for work? > > Thanks. > > Martin Dubow > >
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