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<div>Hi Joe,</div>
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<div>I never got much but price shoppers from my brief foray into the Yellow Pages. Besides, there are WAY too many phone books here in the San Francisco Bay Area, which brings on brain paralysis for the consumer--that is, inability to make ANY choice. </div>
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<div>I still keep a very small ad in a couple of the bigger ones, mostly for the benefit of regular or former clients who might have lost my number.</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
650-224-3560<br>
dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br>
http://dstahlpiano.net/<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: josepharosenberg@yahoo.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 1:38 PM<br>
Subject: Do Yellow Page ads really work?<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_3854e58d-3691-4339-a330-0965b52fa431><PRE><TT>Hi,
I'm in the process of building my piano tuning
business.
My local Yellow Pages situation is this:
Verizon county big book
Verizon local little book
Yellow Book regional big book
Yellow Book local little book
There are approximately 20 piano tuners listed in both
the big and little books.
In my former business, I spent $400 a month in Yellow
Pages but never got much business from it.
Can anyone share their experiences with advertising in
these books?
Thanks.
Joe Rosenberg
PTG Associate Member
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