Valuing ourselves

[Willem Blees]

Schools and churches are notorious to ask for discounts. I give them a discount when I'm asked to tune more than one piano in the same building. But certainly not just because they want me to tune the same piano every month, or so. 

One?way to?get around the question of a discount, is when an?administrator, or church secretary,?asks for a discount, just because it's a church, is to ask if they work at a discount.?

Also, when I'm asked if I give church discounts, I tell them that I tune the pianos at my church as part of my tithing, and that I can't afford to give to other?churches, too. That usually satisfy them.



Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Erwinspiano at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 8:04 am
Subject: Re: Valuing ourselves




? Bravo Fenton.

? Well said.? That's what I tell the school administrators when they call asking for a scholl tuning discount.? Not really... but I'd like to

?

? Dale


I hope you work 30 billable hours a week if you're working full time; that's $1950

Guys,

Something to consider. I don't think it a stretch to say we work 1 hour of unbilled time for each hour billed. Driving, scheduling, book keeping, ect. So 30 hours billed can mean a 60 hour week. Then, half our pay goes for retirement, insurance, vacation, sick leave, advertising, supplies, ect. My point is our pay is divided in half then in half again when compared to a employee with out those obligations. So, for us to have the same income as say a factory worker, we need 4 time the hourly pay. Their $25. per hour is equal to our $100. per hour. Do you keep 25% of your pay, I know I don't.

Fenton





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