>...if you were only to tune, say 500 pianos >per year at $100 ea., were still talkin' 50 Thousand bucks..and that doesn't >include extras like Pitch raising, repairs etc. So out of 3,211 clients, he >should have no trouble getting 500 active, regular tunings per year. >> >Terry Peterson I couldn't agree more, Terry. On the surface it would seem readily apparent this would be an easy thing to accomplish based on simple mathematics alone. But even with the numbers I posted, regular tunings suprisingly are not the major part of the economic equation in the area I service. A university, some churches, and a few customers at the most constitute regular tunings every year. However, the majority of the dBase numbers I mentioned aren't. The regular tunings per year I do usually cover the four quarterly tax payments at the most. Without going into actual specifics, the majority of income I derive is from the infrequently tuned accounts, new business, and the occasional sales of a few used pianos that I purchase from time to time. I'm certain if a person were very aggressive in building a regular, yearly, tuning base, it could be, and most likely has been, demonstrated, though I'm not certain that it could occur and be maintained at $100 a pop in the majority of areas on a five day work week concept. All this with the understanding these are merely speculations on the matter for my part. Keith McGavern Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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