Apprentice possible??

[Lance Lafargue]

I'm not talking about just stuffing envelopes.  What I meant by that is
that I don't have time to think/look up at my business from a distance.  A
person can have their nose at the grind stone and never see that there's a
better way.  I don't do enough mailings, etc., to hire someone just for
that.  I am just so busy now I'm exhausted and don't have time or energy to
plan and talk to local magazines, newspapers, schools, (folks that can help
me expand)etc., etc., follow up on estimates, go do estimates, work on
enlarging my shop, make jigs, build more storage,etc.. You have to get
artwork, logos, info., etc,together to do this stuff and I want to oversee
that sort of thing because I want that done right- I don't have money to
"try" things.  
 I have the work, but there's a lot I'd like to do to help me run more
efficiently and stress-free. 
 Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: Les Smith <lessmith@buffnet.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Apprentice possible??
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 5:42 PM
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Lance Lafargue wrote:
> > I THOUGHT that if I compensated him some I could keep both of us
happier
> > and keep him with me longer, getting more work out the door and I would
be
> > more free to spend time on doing mailings, advertising, etc., etc.,
> > expanding my business locally. 
> 
> Lance:
> 
> Just a personal observation here. I don't know how much you make on an
> hourly basis as a piano technician, but if I read your post correctly,
> you're intending to pay someone to do piano-work for you so that you
> will have more time to stuff, stamp and address envelopes? It seems to
> me like you've got that backwards. Hire someone to stuff the envelopes  
> for you so that you can do MORE (not less) piano-work. That's where the
> bucks are. There's not much money or glory in being a RES, a Registered
> Envelope Stuffer!
> 
> Les Smith
> lessmith@buffnet.net
>