This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Hello Matthew I simply use an 11" x 7.5" week-to-view appointments diary by the answer-phone. It never leaves my desk. I never make appointment without it. All my appointments are made by phone. I do not use cards. I used to transfer every new appointment to the PC and take a print-out of the days schedules out with me. Now I'm semi-retired I don't do that. I use a 5" x 3" card index system and take the days' cards out with me and fill in any relevant information about the piano and about the client - children's names and age etc. When the days work is complete I file those cards in a-z order under the month they will next be due. When a new month starts I take out those cards and file them a-z under the areas where the pianos are. I use any client who phones as a catalyst to where I shall go any day. I make phone appointments only three or four days in advance - then the client usually remembers I'm coming. I get very few "no-one-at-home" visits. I developed this system about 25 years ago and have had no reason (apart from dropping the computer entry bit) to change. I used to tune 8 - 10 pianos a day and the computer print-out was very useful - clipped onto the dash-board of the car. With map-books of the area I was to visit I never got lost. Regards from a beautiful sunny morning in The Village. Michael G.(UK) _____ From: Matthew Todd [mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com] Sent: 07 September 2005 19:37 To: Pianotech Subject: Appointment Books I am gonna go and pick up a scheduling calendar book, and I just want to know what you all use, and what you have liked and disliked over the years. Do most of you schedule future appointments with the client before you leave, such as the six month tuning? I also thought about getting some cards printed to write the date of the next appointment on it, for the client. Kind of like what doctor and dentist offices use when they schedule your next visit. Do I hear any suggestions here? Thanks! Matthew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 7717 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2f/14/86/43/winmail.dat ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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