<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3314" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Todd,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>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</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2> You are very talented young man, and judging from your sincere letter, very mature for your age.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>We have a lot of cool things planned for the next coming years and look forward to having you on board.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook" size=2>Mr. Servinsky</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=paul@bruesch.net href="mailto:paul@bruesch.net">paul bruesch</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:37 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Calling Potential Clients</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Matthew,<BR><BR>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?")  <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Todd <<A href="mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com">toddpianoworks@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV>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?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>There's 17 people on the list, and I may make some business, but I want advice first, before I jump into it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you,</DIV> <DIV>Matthew</DIV> <P><FONT color=#888888></FONT></P> <HR SIZE=1> <DIV class=WgoR0d>Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ" target=_blank>Try it now.</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>