More work than I can handle

[Avery]

Like a friend of mine said once, "I might be 
tired, but I'm not going to be tired AND
broke!" :-)

Avery

At 05:11 PM 4/7/2006, you wrote:

>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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