Clyde Hollinger wrote Now for the curious, here is how my gross income changed since I went fulltime, and this is primarily from in-the-home/school/church tuning and service. I started fulltime in June 1992, so I am not comparing 1993 with 1992. Each percentage is relative to the year before. > >1994, up 31% >1995, up 7% >1996, up 16% >1997, up 12% >1998, up 3% >1999, up 20% >2000, down 2% > >I am essentially at the place where I do not intend to increase the amount of work I do in a year any more, so percentages are likely to be smaller increases/decreases from here on out. My rates go up a little each year, this year 4.4%. > >Regards, Clyde > And I will share mine, too. I had started a comeback in tuning during my last year of retail so I will use that year (1994) as a base. 1995, up 43% 1996, up 28% 1997, up 16% 1998, down 28% 1999, up 22% 2000, up 27%. In '96 and '97, somewhere between 20 and 30 per cent of my volume was coming from one source, a major Toronto dealer. This came to an abrubt end in mid-'97, consequently the 1998 percentage was down. It must have had a little bit to do with the economy, too, as Clyde's increase was only 3%. This is what I meant when I said I wanted to achieve a 17% increase in 2001 without additional dealer or institutional work. Right now institutional stuff equals 10% of my total workload and that's as high as I want it to go. It's just too easy for a large account to "drop the basket" and break all my eggs. And Clyde, as for your Janssen and especially Jesse French, if I've ever seen one, It must have been archived by now. John Lillico, RPT, Oakville, ON
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