---------- > From: wtscherer <WallyTS@compuserve.com> > To: LIst <pianotech@byu.edu> > Subject: Do yellow pages pay? > Date: Saturday, April 26, 1997 5:48 AM > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > I'm approaching the end of one year in the business full time, and this > month is when I must get my request in to the phone company if I want to > change my service to commercial. (I tuned part-time for 17 years, mostly > overseas.) The basic rate would be about $60 as compared to $15 for private > residential. I would get a one line, normal typeface listing in the yellow > pages under "Piano Tuning and Repair". snip > What have some of you done who mostly work for yourself, especially if you > don't offer rebuilding? Have you found yellow pages advertising cost > effective? > > Sincerely, > Wally Scherer > Norfolk, Virginia > WallyTS@compuserve.com Since it costs next to nothing and I figure a professional *should* be locatable (is that a word?) in the yellow pages, I have a one-line regular print listing of my name and phone number under "Piano Tuners and Technicians". No one has *ever* mentioned *looking me up* in the phone book. The only mention of the yellow pages comes from price shoppers, and that doesn't happen more than once or twice a year. Myler, Tom "Perhaps the greatest wisdom is the knowledge of one's own ignorance" John Steinbeck
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