OT Master Piano Technicians of America

[Nichols]

At 12:42 AM 2/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>At 12:18 AM 2/27/2004, you wrote:
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>>In a message dated 26/02/04 11:38:16 PM, gnewell@ameritech.net writes:
>><SNIP> In my almost 20 years of piano service I have met perhaps a 
>>handful of people in the general public who had ever heard of the 
>>organization let alone the designation.

>Greg Newell

Greg,
     If this thread is to continue, it should move over to ptg-L. I'm not 
trying to spur it on, per se, but I'd like to respond to your sentence 
above, in as positive fashion as possible.
    If, as you say, 20 years has produced only a handful of general public 
aware of the PTG, then you have failed a huge portion of your business 
goals. Why is a "Steinway" a "Steinway"? How about "Cadillac"? Oh, the list 
is endless. It's marketing, sir. Pure and simple. And.... it's as important 
as anything else we do in our trade.

Best regards,
Guy Nichols, RPT