Marshall When I am down and need work, I take out the phone book with my wife and start mailing letters. Send a letter of introduction to every music teacher. Also to although schools, but you might have to be persistent with that one. With the computer and a printer, you can cover a lot of ground. Last and I say it again, get a piano and put it in your living room like it was a family piano, gear it up and run an add. By the way, running an add in the music section of the paper is a good thing to do; start with the Sunday paper or what ever day is there highest circulation. William ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:47 PM Subject: [pianotech] economy Hi Everyone, I am curious as to how everyones business is doing with our economy etc. For whatever reason when I moved back east after my training I started to get work wich is great, nothing to e-mail home about. Although since I'm already home I guess I don't need to e-mail. lol A sense of humor is needed on my part since business is sooooooo slow now. I may have to find other work unrelaed to piano tuning which is tough being a sight impaired guy in a tough economy. The customres I have are happy, no complaints. No news is good news I hope. I've even tried craigslist which normally will pick up a call or two, nothing right now. Christian yellow pages, nothing. regular yellow pages, i'm only in two thankfully, not too expensive, nothing. customer referrals nothing. Do any of you guys have some incredible ideas? I hope I get work soon so that my lanlor d won't have to continue waiting. the poor guy is so patient, but my wife and I are thankful. Unfortunately I cannot just work for nothing as I've been suggested in the past, "make yourself available at someones shop do whatever they ask you etc." Working for free doesn't pay the rent, electric, save for my sons's kindergarden tuition. He's going to Christian school not matter what it takes to get him there. So thanks everyone for your ideas. I hope you guys are all busy and the phones are ringing off the hook and the e-mails are coming. I hope I dont' sound too depressed. My family and friends tell me I seem depressed. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100410/df8cc339/attachment.htm>
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