>So I apologize for my lenthly post, but I'm wondering am I missing something, or is it simply a matter of "not being in the business" long enough? I sit here and think, man 8 tunings a day? If I could tune that fast, my family would have everything they coud need and want, bills would be paid and not piling up. What am I missing? - Marshall< Marshall - I do believe it's simply the time factor. Unless you buy an established business with all the contacts which come with it, or you happen to set up shop in a area with plentiful pianos, but a lack of technicians, it will take time to build up the customer base where you can do 4 or more pianos a day each and every day. As I mentioned, I tune up to 8 pianos a day at this point in my career, but it certainly wasn't always that way. For years after I started tuning, I would do a half dozen pianos or so a week. That's why I had a day job teaching English - to provide a regular paycheck with benefits. It wasn't until I had taught for 36 years, and could retire with a stipend, that I felt ready to jump to full time piano work. So hang in there, and keep doing your best work. Your customer base will grow over time, and hopefully you'll a some point be turning jobs away because you have too much work coming in to handle. In the meantime, be open to finding other ways to bring in an income. One thing can lead to another, you'll find. Two hours to complete a tuning is not bad at all, either, at this stage in your career. I still take a full hour to tune a piano, and I'm in my 4th decade of tuning. It will speed up, but don't try to hurry it. You want to give the customer a tuning they are happy with, not just one that you make the most money for the least amount of time. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091031/6551df4d/attachment.htm>
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