You have to remember too Marshall that how we feel, how we act and how our mindset is, all comes across to the customer. So, if on any given day, you are ticked off and frustrated that you have called 5 or 10 people and gotten zero, even a little bit of sorrow or change in the tone of our voice, the client may very well detect. No offense intended here Marshall but, I wonder if you should be making these calls yourself if this even remotely might be the case? A lot of the time, I get the distinct feeling that you are angry or disgusted with the customer, the economy, the fact that you can't seem to build up your business as quickly as you would expect and that you are down on yourself. To repeat, this will come across as something negative to the client. None of us likes negative feelings or negative people very much. Business will not be built up quickly if at all with negative feelings being pent up inside. Again, I'm not trying to offend you but, this is how you come across to me in your writing quite often. This being the case, it is also likely then that the client "may" then be getting the same feelings and could a part of the problem of why they say no. We must be positive and have a positive attitude at all times NOT allowing any negative attitudes to come outside of our bodies for the client to sense. Put yourself in that same situation and how you might feel. As has been mentioned time and time again here, to build up a business takes time, lots of effort, developing a reputation and a boat load of patience. Rotten economy or not. I will use myself as an example by telling everyone here something I did yesterday that I tried as an experiment as a good example of attitude. I learned to tuned in EBVT III. I tuned the most important persons piano in my college yesterday in EBVT III explaining that I did so after she played it a couple of times. While at first, she appeared to really like it, I guess over all, she did not. I did not say it was an experiment to see if she would like it or not. Well, she sent me an email last night telling me that she absolutely HATED IT asking when I could come back and tune it in ET.! Her piano just "does not sing like it does when I tune it in ET." I responded immediately to her email stating that this tuning is not for everyone and that I will put it back into ET for her. So, instead of going over to the college this morning, I am going directly over there to retune the piano in Equal Temperament as I have always done in the past. Do I like having to go over there to re-do it? HELL NO!!! It's a free tuning and a total waste of my time. However, did I learn something? You bet I did. Will I be in a rotten mood with her? No way. I will be kind, generous, apologize for the fact that she did not like it explaining at the same time that I wanted to try something different and with her good ear, I thought she would be a great candidate for trying this on. I will put it back, she will be happy and things will remain the same with us, as usual. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:31 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] customers Hi Everyone, Thank you for your ideas concerning call backs etc. Fortunately I do much of what is suggested here such as asking when they'd like to have their piano tuned again etc. I also tell them if there's any problem with anything or any concerns to let me know. It's nice to know it's more than likely the economy rather than myself. I guess we all struggle with something in our lives. Maybe when I become an RPT eventually I'll feel a little better arriving to a new level and starting a new journey that is. Once one becomes an RPT doens't mean the've arrived of course. :-) I hope I caught everyone's ideas. There are so many repeats on here I have trouble identifing new posts from old ones. Thanks again everyone, and hopefully this phone will start ringing or whatever cell phones do soon. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com <http://www.phillytuner.com/> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100825/5154c435/attachment-0001.htm>
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