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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Clever approach</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Tom Servinsky</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:49
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: courtesey call</DIV>
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<DIV>Will, I have my 11 yr. old daughter do my reminder calls , and everyone
just loves it. She has this sweet and cheerful voice that says , "My dad will
be over to tune your piano at ...</DIV>
<DIV>My no shows have dropped drastically , and she gets paid $3 per day as
well. Keeps her in mp3 downloads etc.</DIV>
<DIV>Rick Ucci/Ucci Piano</DIV>
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Original message from Willem Blees <wimblees@aol.com>: --------------
<BR><BR><WBR>Last night we were talking with our son, Chris,who is a very
successful CPA, about courtesy calls. He says his secretary always calls his
appointments either the day before, or even the morning of, his appointment,
as a courtesy, to let the client know Chris has an appointment with him. And
he receives either a phone call or an e-mail confirming appointments. He
says it's a profesional thing to do. <BR><BR>I have received a phone call
from my doctor and dentist for several years reminding me of my
appointments. Quite frankly, my reaction has always been, "Yeah, of course I
have an appointment with you, I set it up, so why waste my time to remind
me?" I assumed the call was because the doctor had been getting a lot of
no-shows, which hurts his insurance claims. <BR>My reason for not cont!
acting customers has been for two reasons. One, as I just said, the customer
called me, so why remind him/her of the appointment. To me I look at it as
insult. The other reason is "fear" of having the customer cancel the
appointment, especially if I called her/him and had to talk her/him into
getting the piano tuned. It is more difficult for a customer to send me away
when I'm at the front door, than to tell me not to come on the phone before
I even get there.<BR><BR>So what are your policies? Do you call the day
before, as a courtesy, to remind your customer of your appointment, saying
something like "This is a courtesy call to remind you of our appointment
tomorrow at 9 o'clock.<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano
Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano
Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com</DIV>
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