I ported the land line number I have had for 35 years over to my iPhone. Both were ATT. No regrets. The YP ad is separate and does not require a land business line anymore.. I do notice that I am no longer in the white pages and will probably have to pay for that next time. ron On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:00 PM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:20 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > >> I’m phasing out my yellow page ads and will also probably go 100% >> cellular in the next year or two (once I’m sure everyone has the number). >> > Don't be too sure they will have your cell number. > > I did this several years ago. But many people never figured out that I > really meant that "my number is changing." Even in spite of my mentioning > that on every postcard I sent out for two years prior. :-) > > Fortunately for me, they called my mother's number and got my cell number. > (We are the only Formsmas in this area.) Last year I was able to get my old > number back, and receive a number of calls still. (My home number was > canceled in 2005, and then reconnected in 2008.) > > If you condition your customers to go to your website or PTG's site, you > won't have this problem. > > I don't have a yellow page listing. Just word of mouth, and whatever may > come from people looking at websites. I do occasionally look in the yellow > page book, so I know other folks must also. > > -- > JF > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Berry Piano Service Indianapolis, IN 317-255-8213 ron at berrypiano.com http://www.berrypiano.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090415/6bf2f5a7/attachment.html>
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