Don wrote, >Hi Larry, > >I would not for I am NOT a salesman. If you are not a salesman...how did you convince anybody to let you tune their piano? If you do any kind of buisness, you simply must do some selling. You have a product (your abilities, skills, and reputation) but they will do you little good if you don't convince someone of the fact that you are the best person to do the job. (That friends,is selling.) Granted, the selling for a lot of us is easy because we might be the only person able to do the job, but the fact is that no one would ask you to work on their instrument if you didn't in someway say, "Will tune pianos for money." I don't imply that we put on the sports coats, checked pants, and white shoes while becoming that stereotype sales guy, but we all sell. >Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Nice sales technique...gives your customer confidence in your abilities. >Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts See, it works! The gentleman in Wheeling has something he thinks is valuable, he is quite naturally offering it in exchange for money. You may not think it is that valuable. Then you should negotiate a better price or just don't buy it. But it is his right to offer. There have been many good points about whether he should just give the list to someone qualified to service his clients' (customers') pianos. I probably would just refer my clients to someone else as a last service, but I cannot say that I would not sell my customer list to another technician. Mitch Ruth DeMossville, KY _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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