Promotional items: Was "calendars"

[Farrell]

And you can get paid $50 next month to pull the pen out of the
non-functional action!

;-)    Just funning.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Promotional items: Was "calendars"


> I have given out pens for the last two years.  The quality of the pens
does
> vary.  Having ordered two different types of pens, I will definitely be
going
> back to the first type I ordered, there being many problems with that
second
> design.  My way of testing each one is to write out their bill with the
pen,
> and then give it to them.  (This way I'm sure it works.)
>
> It costs me about 75 cents/pen, and I think it is well worth it, based on
> comments I've gotten from clients.
>
> I used to just leave them on the piano, thinking they would go to the
piano
> after I left to play something and find a little gift from me, but I had
so
> many people run out the front door after me, screaming, "You left your
pen!!"
>  I'd reply from my car as I backed out the driveway, "No, that's YOUR
pen!"
> And they'd yell, "No, it's YOURS!"  So now I hand it to each client
> personally, saying, "I'm sure you can always use another pen."
>
> One lady, calling to schedule her second tuning with me, actually said, "I
> lost your card, but then I remembered the pen!  What a good idea, leaving
> that pen!"
>
> Tom Sivak