Robin Blankenship said: "One thing that you might consider communicating to either this or future customers that have difficult pianos for you is that you have very quick and firm access to some of the very best minds in your profession through this list." Good point, worth doing. But: I have had a bit of a stumbling block in talking to most people about this: simply how to describe the list! By far the great majority of people, even the internet-savvy, do not readily comprehend what is meant by a "list." If I speak without considering my audience, what comes out is something like "I'm a member of an online list of piano technicians" and they visualize some kind of printed list, like a membership list - nothing like what we want to convey! - which is basically: if I encounter an interesting technical problem, I can post a question about it and within a day I will probably have half a dozen expert responses. This explanation is hampered by the word "list." How can we quickly describe what this is - this cyberspace gathering of great technicians, this watering hole regularly visited by many highly esteemed individuals from all over the USA and Canada, England, France, Netherlands, Norway, Australia, people willing and eager to help share their expertise. But instead of conveying this, I often find myself trying to describe what a "list" is - automated mailing of emails to everyone on the list, yadda yadda yawn. Has anyone out there a great way to explain what a phenomenal resource we have? Some analogy as powerful as "it's like tuning forty guitars"?
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