More work than I can handle

[JIMRPT at aol.com]

David writes:


> I average 40 to 50 calls on my answering machine a week. Unfortunately I 
> cannot keep up with the requests and I have been referring some work to other 
> tech’s in town but they are also busy. I have been fortunate enough to have 
> built a good reputation for myself and have tuning, regulating and voicing work 
> to keep me busy without any large commercial accounts
> 

David;
 If someone else has suggested this just take it as my vote for your 
"problem" :-)
 Raise your prices. This will do two things first it will leave you with more 
income and it will cut down on the amount of work needful to generate the 
same income as you currently get. Yes, you will lose some of your marginal 
customers but I would think that the loss will be more than made up by your 
increased prices.    Since you are sending a goodly number of customers to other techs 
this should not be a problem for you. Keep your increases reasonable and 
consistent throughout your pricing stucture.   Don't just say it wwon't work 
because it has not failed in the past as long as increases are reasonable.   What 
is a reasonable increase? Depends on what you feel comfortable with and where 
your rates are now. Try it you'll like it.
My thoughts.
Jim B (FL)
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