Tom The best place to get business, and a lot of experience, is at a dealer. But be prepared to tune for half, if not less, your normal fee. You can also ask the dealer if you can do the first in home tuning, and if he would recommend you to customers who call the store. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Rhea, Jr. <rheapiano at cox.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 7:05 pm Subject: [pianotech] Getting started... List, I’m getting a really late start as a piano technician. I’ve – essentially – completed the Randy Potter Piano Technology course and have been tuning for a few months. Business is – to put it bluntly – horrible! After a flurry of interest, I’m finding it very difficult to drum up new business in the Hampton Roads, VA area. There are several RPTs and other technicians locally, but not enough – I think – to cover all the needs of the community. Since I’m 65, I don’t have a lot of time to go before I’ll just be too old to continue, but I’d like to be as effective and prolific as I can be, given my limited longevity. Any ideas on how to jump-start my business? Thanks, Tom Rhea, Jr. Rhea Piano Service -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100704/0b4ee15d/attachment.htm>
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