Customer Database

[mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net]

Sid: I developed what was known as a come-up file many years ago when I was 
in full-time music & youth ministry. It was something like what you 
discribed. It kept my fat out of the fire many times.
Gerald McCleskey RPT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Blum" <piano at sover.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: Customer Database


>I got my first computer ten years ago thinking it could easily spit out the 
>relevant mailing labels on the first of each month.   Never came up with a 
>method simple enough to suit me.  A couple of years ago while tuning a 
>Baldwin studio on automatic pilot it came to me.
>
> Index card file with monthly dividers.  At the end of each day I put a 
> card for the customers I visited that day in the slot for the month they 
> are due for the next appointment.  On April 15 I send out reminders for 
> June appointments.
> -- 
> Sid Blum
> sid at sover.net