My experience has been that it really depends on the area that you work in. If you have a lot of affluent customers, they almost always pre-schedule, but if you work in a economically depressed area they'll say something like "I'll call you." -----Original Message----- From: Wimblees@aol.com <Wimblees@aol.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Customer Ratio >In a message dated 6/17/00 7:47:50 PM Central Daylight Time, >tuner@mediaone.net writes: > ><< I'm curious as to the ratio of customers who have their pianos tuned > every six > months, as opposed to once a year. > > I have recently passed the six month mark of my tuning career and wonder > what > I can expect in the way of retunings. > > Thanks. > > Martin Dubow >> > > >For some reason, I never did have much success getting my customers to tune >every 6 months. Oh, I do have some, but compared tot he rest of my client >list, it's very little. I would guess maybe 5 per cent. > >When I first started tuning, I had the same thoughts you did. I couldn't wait >for September to roll around, (I started tuning in March). It was very >disappointed to have only a few agree to have me tune after only six months. > >Don't rely on the 6 months clients to keep you in business. Keep working to >build your clientele. In fact, don't ever stop trying to build your >clientele. You constantly have to work on building your business. > >Willem >
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