<html> Never under estimate the power of ambition. Just be able to back it with ability. Being an extrovert helps. Sell yourself, modesty considered. The meek shall inherit the earth but fail to nail the big contracts. Job.101 Jon Page At 11:45 AM 01/26/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Door to door. >Once, while looking for a specific address in a small town, and not finding >it, I picked out a likely looking house and knocked on the door. The lady >who answered said that the people I was looking for lived down the street. I >thanked her and then casually mentioned that I was going to tune the other >lady's piano. She  said, "I have a piano. Can you tune mine, too??" Yes, she >had a piano. And so did her sister and her sister in law and the neighbors >across the street, and their son, and their son's church, etc., etc., etc. >Robin >----- Original Message ----- >From: Roger C Hayden <rchayden2@juno.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 11:56 AM >Subject: Re: Advertising > > >>I did most of what has been spoken of, plus one more. >> >>Door to door.  Having had experience in life insurance sales gave me the >>moxey and the words to take my business cards door to door down a small >>town street not far from my home.   By the end of the day I had dropped a >>couple dozen cards off, politely introduced myself to many folk, and >>tuned two pianos.  At the time this was all I needed. >> >>Hey, we have a service that the world desperately needs.  Believe in it. >> >>Roger Hayden, RPT > <div>Jon Page,   piano technician</div> <div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div> <div><a href="mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net</a></div> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </html>