This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I've been considering giving magnetized business cards for the fridge. = Talk about a gift that they can use! Then if they would just use the = darn thing! Terry Farrell =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Clyde Hollinger=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 6:40 AM Subject: Promotional items: Was "calendars" Friends,=20 I will start out this day by being a wet blanket. :-( Here are the = reasons I would not consider giving calendars to my clients.=20 1. I receive too many calendars already, so most of them end up in = the wastebasket the same day I receive them. If I gave calendars to my = clients, there's a high probability my calendars would be treated in the = same way.=20 2. I prefer a gift I can give all year long, so I can leave one when = I service the piano.=20 3. Calendars require a mailing, at least for anyone who has the kind = of on-location business I do, and at just the time when I already = struggle to keep from getting too busy.=20 4. Most of them cost too much for the impact made.=20 The only time in my business that I tried to give "appreciate your = business" gifts was about two years ago, when I gave out pens. Now how = unimaginative is that?! The one I received as a sample looked good and = wrote great, but when I received my order there were problems. Some = didn't write well, and some didn't write at all. Some would not retract = properly. I had to test every single one. A distributor of such pens = may think, "Well, what did you expect for such a great price? 90% were = okay, weren't they?" Maybe so, but if I give a client a pen that = doesn't work or write properly, then 100% of the pen(s) that client = received would leave a negative impact, don't you think?=20 I would favor giving something to that I am quite certain wouldn't = just end up in the round file, can be given all year long and doesn't = cost too much. After all, every penny spent comes directly off my = bottom line. At the moment I could see giving sticky note pads, but I = haven't taken the time to look for a manufacturer of imprinted notes.=20 Have others used promotional items? What were they and how were they = received?=20 Regards,=20 Clyde Hollinger, RPT=20 Lititz, PA, USA=20 Ed Carwithen wrote:=20 I just got in on this thread, but so far I haven't seen anyone = suggest that the piano photos for a wonderful calandar already exist in = the photos on the covers of the PTG Journal. Look no further... Ed = Carwithen ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b8/12/d5/64/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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