Scheduling question

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Greetings, 
Annie writes:
> After seven years of hustling to make ends meet (which meant I had more 
> than enough time to work at customers' sites and in my shop), I've moved to a 
> new area which is turning out to be absolutely wonderful.  Today, however, it 
> became very apparent that I'm going to have to become much more careful of my 
> schedule if I'm to take advantage of the work opportunities that are being 
> offered (and still do my best work, of course).
>   
>  So I would appreciate hearing how other folks do it.
> 
> 
Raise your prices.   When you are working so much that you run out of time, 
you are not charging enough.   You want a clientele's willingness to pay more 
for more experience to increase as your worth increases, so you have to ride 
the curve or slowly become swamped with underpaying work.   
     I know how many tunings a week my hands and tendons are able to 
comfortably handle, When that time is sold, I don't try to adulterate the appointments 
by cramming in another one or two.   Higher prices allow me to do that.    
    We either shape the clientele to suit our life, or it will shape us to 
its convenience. The fear of losing a customer because we are charging too much 
will cost us far more in the long run than actually losing a customer or two 
along the way.  
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html



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