Consider that you will have to work Saturdays for awhile (not a bad way to build business, btw, offering Saturday appointments). See if you can negotiate to part time at your regular job, or a 4 day week with longer days while you are building business. See if you can land a piano store job with regularly scheduled floor work. You will have to sell yourself fairly cheap for most stores, but you can get a lot of experience and some customers pretty fast. If you have a shop space, get it set up to bring in pianos which you can work on and resell when field work gets slow. Expand your expertise and speed in certain repair repertoire and offer it at a discount to other techs who may be too busy and willing to make some money on your labor (bushings and keytops, for example). As things get busier try and phase out your other job by going to permanent part time or, if your current employer won't go for it, find another part time job. Fortunately, office work is fairly mobile. At some point you probably have to make the leap, but you can do it in a less risky way if you plan carefully and look realistically at your current business level. First thing, though, make sure you do good work and stay in touch with the customers you do have. Keeping a customer is a lot easier than finding a new one. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net > Hello, > > I am in the process of transitioning jobs from what I do now to a full > time piano tech. What process did you all use? Right now there is no way > I can begin to make an income on piano clients because the money I make > right now is going towards the purchase of tools (little by little). So I > still have my regular job (office job) at the present. When does the time > come for me to start seriously thinking about going full force into piano > tech? > > Thanks! > > > > Matthew Todd > Todd Piano Works > Piano Tuner/Technician > Tuning - Repairing - Regulating > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com Maggie Jusiel Piano Tuner Winds & Strings Teacher PO Box 1234 Athens, WV 24712-1234 (304)952-8615 <mags@magsmusic.net> <http://www.magsmusic.net> <http://www.casparwicky.net/quotepage.html> _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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