diff --git a/app/models/service.rb b/app/models/service.rb
index e6de0c1df..eb77ce1c2 100644
--- a/app/models/service.rb
+++ b/app/models/service.rb
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ class Service
   
 
   def post
-    raise "NotImplementedError: you must instantiate a subclass"
+    raise "NotImplementedError: you must instantiate a subclass/or you need to run 'rake migrations:service_reclassify in your production env'"
   end
 end