Hi Susah, My problem with finding a place that has few techs is, does tha tplace have a bus system. We visionimpaired folks don't always drive. Fo me, a place that has numerous music stores to do floor tunigs for where I can gain customers from would be best. A small town would't help me any , just to frustrate and anoy me. :) I"m a big city guy to begin with. My stomping grounds , Philadelphia PA continues to sound better and better each day, but I cannot afford the cost of living ther, almost like California. Although being close to my family would be a benifit for my 5 month old. Marshall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:20 PM Subject: RE: AAA Yellow Pages trade listing-Geoff > >> >>I did some market research by calling about a dozen of them getting price >>quotes in order to establish a reasonable fee for my services. Attitudes >>ranged from surly to desperate. > > I did that too, when figuring out where I wanted to live. It was a real > eye-opener! Medford-Ashland was the craziest. The yellow pages there had > a tremendous long list of tuners, and one prominently advertised > "Same Day Service" !! > > I shuddered, and drove north ... > > Tremendous amounts of grief and effort could be avoided if people > were better at positioning themselves in places where there was a felt > need, instead of in a crowd of piano techs struggling for market share. > > sssn > > P.S. Scouting areas, I felt like a fake as I asked about getting a piano > tuned. People carefully explained pitch raising to me, etc. However, it > was in everybody's interest that I find an uncrowded place which > still had piano owners, so I went ahead, and pretended to be a prospective > customer all up and down a lot of California and Oregon's I-5 corridor. > _______________________________________________ > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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