[pianotech] Saturday Appointments

[Paul T Williams]

Wednesday's are also good for golf...take a wealthy client or someone who 
knows everybody.  Good business contacts! I've had good luck on the golf 
course getting business.  If they can afford to golf...they or somebody 
they know has a piano....and more than likely a good one.

Paul




From:
wimblees at aol.com
To:
ed440 at mindspring.com, pianotech at ptg.org
Date:
08/01/2009 01:21 PM
Subject:
Re: [pianotech] Saturday Appointments



I have always tuned on Saturdays. Now that I'm in Hawaii, and need all the 
business I can get, I work 6 days a week. (Well, I'm available to work 6 
days, but, unfortunately, there are week days when I don't have 
appointments.) But when I was in St. Louis, I took Wednesday afternoon 
off. I just put a line through my appointment book, and just didn't 
schedule any tunings. Sometimes I would do paper work or work on an 
action. But most of the time I went out with my wife, and/or the kids. 

Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 5:02 am
Subject: [pianotech] Saturday Appointments

I'm considering establishing a policy of "No Saturday Appointments."
It began as a favor to a customer who lived nearby, when they both began 
working away from home weekdays.
Once you make a Saturday appointment, you have a customer who will demand 
Saturday only appointments, and it doesn't take very many of those to 
claim most (soon all) available Saturdays.
How have others dealt with this?
Ed S.

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