income per mile

[Willem Blees]

-----Original Message-----
From: Fenton Murray <fmurray at cruzio.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00 pm
Subject: Re: income per mile



Wim,

This is avoiding your question, but, if you've brought home 65K in your first year in Hawaii, you must indeed know something about the Business of Piano Tuning. Not bad. 

Fenton


Having the know-how of running a tuning business was helpful, but?what also helped me were three things. One, another tuner sent me quite?few referrals.Two, I bought 440 names from?a tuner who died. And three, I tuned for a store, who also gave me customers.The rest was just good old fashioned?hustle.?I worked long hours, and took?on anything and everything that came my way.

Unfortunately, even with as much?money as?I made, it wasn't enough to make a living here. My wife and I depleted our savings, and even had to borrow money to pay the rent for the last 4 months. But it looks like we turned a corner, and next year looks very promising.?

WIm ?









----- Original Message ----- 

From: AlliedPianoCraft 

To: Pianotech List 

Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:45 AM

Subject: Re: income per mile




Win, 

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I wouldn't know how to calculate that, since my shop income is 3 to 4 time more than my tuning income (work in homes).?Is that?income just tunings and work in homes or are you adding in your shop work also?

?

Al Guecia

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From: Willem Blees 

Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:26 PM

To: Pianotech at ptg.org 

Subject: income per mile





Since I moved to Hawaii a year ago I've put on 16,750 miles in my car. That's a lot of driving around this little island. About 85% of this is for business purposes. During this time I've?brought in about $65,180. That comes to $4.86 of income per mile driven. I've never thought about this until today, but I wonder how I compare with some of you? This is gross income and it includes in home tuning and repairs, and?shop work, like?action regulation and repairs. No rebuilding.??


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
www.bleespiano.com
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com

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