AAA Yellow Pages trade listing-Geoff

[pianotune05]

Hi Susah,
My problem with finding a place that has few techs is, does tha tplace have 
a bus system.  We visionimpaired folks don't always drive.  Fo me, a place 
that has numerous music stores to do floor tunigs for where I can gain 
customers from would be best.  A small town would't  help me any , just to 
frustrate and anoy me. :)  I"m a big city guy to begin with.  My stomping 
grounds , Philadelphia PA continues to sound better and better each day, but 
I cannot afford the cost of living ther, almost like California.  Although 
being close to my family would be a benifit for my 5 month old.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: AAA Yellow Pages trade listing-Geoff


>
>>
>>I did some market research by calling about a dozen of them getting price
>>quotes in order to establish a reasonable fee for my services. Attitudes
>>ranged from surly to desperate.
>
> I did that too, when figuring out where I wanted to live. It was a real
> eye-opener! Medford-Ashland was the craziest. The yellow pages there had
> a tremendous long list of tuners, and one prominently advertised
> "Same Day Service" !!
>
> I shuddered, and drove north ...
>
> Tremendous amounts of grief and effort could be avoided if people
> were better at positioning themselves in places where there was a felt
> need, instead of in a crowd of piano techs struggling for market share.
>
> sssn
>
> P.S. Scouting areas, I felt like a fake as I asked about getting a piano
> tuned. People carefully explained pitch raising to me, etc. However, it
> was in everybody's interest that I find an uncrowded place which
> still had piano owners, so I went ahead, and pretended to be a prospective
> customer all up and down a lot of California and Oregon's I-5 corridor.
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