Calling Potential Clients

[Tom Servinsky]

Todd,
You are most welcome! We thoroughly have enjoyed you performing with us. We also hope that you will make yourself available to this group for the next years to come
 You are very talented young man, and judging from your sincere letter, very mature for your age.
We have a lot of cool things planned for the next coming years and look forward to having you on board.
Mr. Servinsky
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paul bruesch 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:37 PM
  Subject: Re: Calling Potential Clients


  Matthew,

  Personally I don't like cold-calling, either doing it or being the "callee", but I think it can be done in a pleasant way. The telemarketers I especially dislike are (a) overly-friendly ("Hey Paul, how's it goin' today?") and/or (b) overly pushy ("whassamatter, don't you like firefighters?")  

  If I was one of those teachers, I wouldn't be insulted by a "courtesy call" (just don't call it that.... that term is vastly over-abused!) just introducing yourself, mentioning the client who gave you my name, and asking if I had a regular tech  and offering my phone number and/or email address and/or website.

  Paul


  On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at yahoo.com> wrote:

    I recently tuned for a client, who, after the tuning, gave me a two page list of all the music/voice teachers in my area.  Since I just relocated to the area she was was being nice and helping me out.  It has addresses and phone numbers.  Some have e-mails, but not all.  Would it be polite or professional procedure to call these people introducing myself so they know I exist?  Have any of you been faced with a similar circumstance?  It sounds like a good starting point, but on the other hand, I don't want to hurt myself before I even get going.  I tend to think of the telemarketers who call me.  What have you all been faced with in the past?

    There's 17 people on the list, and I may make some business, but I want advice first, before I jump into it.


    Thank you,
    Matthew


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