It takes the best/busiest tech in your area to raise his prices and the others will follow. Is that you? Are you raising every year? David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:58:03 -0500 Subject: Re: hr rate; complete regulation of the grand piano >Hi Patrick, >I'm like a lot of techs, I have a hard time raising my prices! :-) >But in spite of that, I'm still on the high end of the prices here >in Houston! >Avery >At 10:28 AM 7/17/04, you wrote: >>On Jul 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Avery Todd wrote: >> >>> Dale, >>> >>> I thought I was charging "pretty" close to what I should be. Considering >>> I also have a full-time "salary" type job. >> >>Umm, what's that got to do with it? Unless perhaps all your private work >>is at venues (community concerts, your church denomination) for which you >>feel an overwhelming altruistic urge to subsidize the arts or religion? >>Seems to me your non-salaried work should be in your "overtime zone," not >>the "below the market" zone. >> >>> Am I wrong? >> >>Altruism is a noble virtue. >>We're all free to set our prices where we wish. I know it's not easy for >>me to raise my own prices. We ought not sell ourselves short. >> >>Patrick Draine >>in the expensive Northeast (hey did you know plywood prices went up 53% >>this past year?) >> >>_______________________________________________ >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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