Bubba Ron, I gotta take exception here- I've heard this gospel more often than you've heard tapping strings down on the bridge is a good thing. No matter what you charge, a percentage of your customers will think you charge more than you are worth and it is a fairly high percentage in some cases. That's okay when you remember Business 101- eighty percent of your business comes from twenty percent of your customer base. Think about it. That twenty percent is what I am concerned with though I tolerate the other eighty percent relatively well at this point because when you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. As right as you are about every thing else, I cannot conceive of a technician with basic skills in business and piano technology starving unless they didn't charge enough. As a former business class teacher I gotta tell you that there are more myths about what it takes to be successful than what it takes to build a decent soundboard plus an equal number of absurd, groundless rationales for a consistent lack of vision, innovation and perseverance. Charge what you think you are worth and make a living. Charge more than what you think you are worth and make a life with goals to met and exceeded- both technical, monetary and educational. Gee, I am starting to sound like a Voicing Tool newsletter, I better stop and take my medication. Best regards, Dale Dale Probst, RPT Member, TEAM2001 PTG Annual Convention Reno, NV --July 11-15, 2001 email: wardprobst@cst.net (940)691-3682 voice (940) 691-6843 fax TEAM2001 website: http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm On Friday, April 13, 2001 10:53 PM, Ron Nossaman [SMTP:RNossaman@KSCABLE.com] wrote: > > > > > Who sets this rate? We have only ourselves to blame. Obviously we think > > we're not worth more. > > > > Paul Larudee > > > > What happens when we think we're worth more than our customer base thinks > we're > worth? > > Guess who's wrong. > > Guess who starves. > > Guess who needs better customers. > > > Ron N
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