Chuck, I think your reorganization is excellent. There's obviously one thing you've learned from your 37 years of experience: you understand your clientele, and how they will react to hard times. I think that in the future, once oil depletion and the trouble in the Gulf work their ways through the system, that cutting down your yearly mileage will be a very profitable move. I'm "enjoying" a forced holiday, possibly for six months (now two months in) from a bout of Guillain Barre Syndrome (Miller Fisher variant), which totally sucks, but supposedly people get over it. It has had me thinking about what kind of business I want (and will be fit for) once I begin tuning again. This punctuation mark seems to offer me a chance to get caught up with everything -- house, garden, paper, rest -- and instead of getting shoved from one urgent task to another, with exhaustion in between, I think it's time to stay caught up, with time to smell (and water) the roses. Susan Kline At 06:18 AM 6/28/2010, you wrote: >Wally, Wim and others - The topic of pricing and scheduling has been >on my mind a lot lately, in that the recession has hit my area >pretty hard, and I know for a fact (because customers have told me) >that the cost of tuning is a very important factor to a lot of >people when they decide whether to have their annual service done. >For the first time that I can remember I've had people flat out tell >me they don't have the money to have the work done. > >Add to the that the fact that for me at least May, June and July >have always been slow, while the bills I need to pay of course >continue undiminished, and I had begun to to think that I needed to >make some adjustments. >
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