Hi David, And you mean you wouldn't do a job like this one?????? :-D >I have just moved my piano to my new home. It desperately needs to be tuned. I was looking around for pricing. This is >my work email and I can't accept outside emails so you can reach me back at S_Stinson9 at hotmail.com. I just need a price >for basic tuning and whatever that entails. > >Thanks > >Sara Stinson I replied that if she was price shopping, I was the wrong person to contact if she wanted a good job! Avery At 12:45 PM 3/8/2007, you wrote: >This is the point where I feel compelled to make a point of >interest. Real, true marketing is telling the truth as you see it, >providing an excellent, reliable product or service, being an >excellent, reliable individual or team, and then making sure, in the >most confidence-enhancing yet imaginative ways, that your target >market likes and trusts you....like Yamaha over the past 30 years, >for instance. > >Let us not confuse true marketing----building relationships, >building trust---with the marketing you guys are rightly skewering, >which is foisting bullshit on an ignorant (they think) public. > >The exciting thing I'm finding in my business is that more and more >people have highly developed BS detectors---because of the Internet, >and Larry Fine, they've become much more educated, information-rich >consumers; the Web has allowed them to flex their research muscles, >and they definitely can spot truth, FEEL truth, and vice-versa. > >I can't tell you what a powerful experience it's been getting >qualified, trusting clients, ready to cut me a check sight unseen, >SOLELY from a search engine leading them to my website. When I >began, that was my dream---to see if I could replicate my in-person >presence and context on my site---and I did it, because the clients >you really want are the ones you can tell the absolute truth to >because they really want it, and love it. I'll go into more detail >about this later, because I think it's important for us as small >businesspeople not to throw the baby out with the bathwater >vis-a-vis real, effective, long-term marketing and branding of our >names and reputations---as Roger Jolly, for instance, has very >successfully done. >Best, >David Andersen > > >On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:10 AM, PAULREVENKOJONES wrote: > >>Jesse: >> >>If Del Fandrich would ever give his class on marketing myths again, >>everyone would be served. He touched on many of the very things you >>complain about and we should have a voice saying these things on a >>regular basis. The only thing we can do is keep ourselves honest. >>Maybe it'll rub off. >> >>Paul >> >>"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese >>fortune cookie) >> >> >>In a message dated 03/08/07 08:00:56 Central Standard Time, >>PIANOTECHNICIAN writes: >>I've seen so much garbage printed inside pianos -- what about the >>"Jansen Creed?" This is the biggest bunch of BS I've ever seen - >>-Jansen always made a terrible piano, filled with inharmonicity. >>And the Story and Clark "Storytone" soundboard that's supposedly >>guaranteed for 50 years? And what exactly is the meaning of >>"Baldwin direct-blow action?" And "Synchrotone" bass strings? Also, >>"this quality instrument is built in the tradition of Baldwin Grand >>Pianos." I always wondered about Knabe, "the official piano of the >>Metropolitan Opera." They were idiots for not choosing Steinway! >> >>Jesse Gitnik >>NYC >>Since 1980 >> >> >> >> >>---------- >>AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's >>free from AOL at >><http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom>AOL.com. >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070308/e477d2af/attachment-0001.html
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