Article: Giveaways hurt piano profits.(100 Years Ago)

Article: Giveaways hurt piano profits.(100 YEARS AGO)
Music Trades;  August 1, 2006 ;     388 words ...A well-known dealer in Chicago remarked, "It is astonishing what some people will do to sell a piano. Now we do not object to giving lessons with a piano if we sell it, for we can easily calculate the cost using simple arithmetic. But our competitors are guaranteeing to move the piano for a period

Article: Autos hurt piano sales.(100 Years Ago)
Music Trades;  July 1, 2006 ;     425 words ...Among the contributing causes to the prevailing dullness in the piano trade may be noted the craze for the possession of the automobile by people with bicycle incomes. A prominent piano maker recently noted that automobiles are now sold like pianos on the installment plan, but unlike a piano, they

Article: WHAT MISSOURIANS ARE SAYING ABOUT GOV. BLUNT'S VETO OF HOUSE BILL ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... industry could be granted an exemption from state taxes that will produce economic growth, but they never discuss how these giveaways hurt Missouri taxpayers. This legislation was packed with special interest projects and excessive spending that would have taken ...

Article: Conference told to forget client retention initiatives.(savings ...
Financial Adviser;  May 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... churn was the "name of the game" and that those customers who were going to go would go anyway. Loyalty discounts and giveaways hurt margins and were wasted on customers who would have stayed anyway, he said. He said: "Everybody is potentially a rate ...

Article: MUSIC MAY BRING HARMONY TO SOME SUFFERERS OF NEUROLOGICAL ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... controlling Asia's convulsions. "It's a route for parents, I believe, to take," she said. "Try it. It's not going to hurt." Piano teacher Virginia Tubbs of East Hill Piano Studio said Laudal isn't the only student she has had who has benefited physically ...