Hi, Alan, At least you didn't have any trouble with "Laphroig" or slurp slurp (related references, I learned) I'm sure Ed Foote (whose email Peter responded to) got it all.... Bill In a message dated 5/13/2010 2:26:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, reggaepass at aol.com writes: Peter, an occasional tip to the distaff side of the fence I looked up "distaff" but cannot make the connection between any of the definitions offered and what you might mean. Help? Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Peter Sumner <petersumner at mac.com> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 8:27 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Money ( Preaching ) With respect... It is my opinion that the PTG would gain much more credibility if they did not set themselves up as the only arbiter and provider of quality piano technicians. It amazes me that anyone gets any work done around here....committee this and committee that....seems more like an old boys club with an occasional tip to the distaff side of the fence (more power to them)... I'm sure many techs that know, shudder at the antics of 'qualified' persons...I have seen too many totally poor efforts in recent years to wonder if the 'tuner' doing the work had actually any clue at all, to subsequently find their name in the directory with a number 1 by the side.... Am I the only one who has noticed this???? If you want to spend some of that lovely money sloshing around the home office, how about compulsory re-testing every five years...THEN there could be at least a modicum of respect heading towards the PRT registration.... Why not add the last year of re testing to the registration...Fred Bloggs RPT (2010)....now we're talking.... Wonder if I have any of that Laphroig left in the cupboard....maybe I'll look for it after I put on my suit of armour....that hair shirt could come in useful..... We ALL take ourselves waaaaaay to seriously....don't ya think? The best way to make schools understand their pecuniary responsibilities to those working in this field is to call them out for what they are..... Slurp slurp P On May 12, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Ed Foote wrote: Dennis writes: I've always wondered about a Caut endorsement granted to schools that meet certain criteria. <snip< This is a long term process but I fully support Guild leadership that will take an active role in promoting visibility of it's dues paying members. I think the Guild would do best to make Guild members' income the priority. If we want more money flowing into the hands of PTG techs everywhere, we have to change the behavior of the people spending the money. Ultimately, the customer has to be convinced it is in his best interest to use Guild members. The fastest way I know to do that is through the education channels, be it private teachers or institutions. There is a small number of keyboard magazines, I would like the Guild to saturate them, next August, with our presence. We could afford to put big advertisements in more than one. We could afford to target music school administrators. In 2009, we spent over $500,000 on office expenses and the professional services that go with them. In that same year, we spent less than a tenth of that ($ 31,000) on marketing and promotion. Out of our total expenses in 2009,($ 1,133,921) we spent less than 3% on marketing our Guild. Marketing ought to be one of the MAIN functions of this organization, not one of the least. It is fine to continue a training aspect in the guild, but all the training in the world is useless if there is no market for it. Regards, Ed Foote RPT _http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html_ (http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html) = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100513/49452bf3/attachment.htm>
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