John Offering a gift certificate?will not significantly increase the bottom?line in the short run. But when the recipient gets the?gc, that customer will get a warm a?fuzzy feeling about you. And that, my friend, will wind up giving you a lot more customers in the long run. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 5:35 pm Subject: Re: gift certificates On Nov 27, 2007 9:17 PM, MICHAEL MEZHINSKY <pghpianotuning at yahoo.com> wrote: ?Hi All, ? Do you guys offer any gift certificates? ? Thanks, Michael Mezhinsky RPT I don't. ?I would if I thought it would increase my bottom line. ?But in thinking about it, it seems like more effort than it's worth. ?I have had people say they would purchase a piano tuning for someone. ?I usually just bill them, but I've only done this for regulars.? If anyone has an idea that actually has worked for them, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it. -- JF A reminder about a presidential debate tomorrow night. ?8:00 p.m. ET on CNN or online at?http://www.youtube.com/debates ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071128/10c45961/attachment.html
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