IMHO, you gotta raise your prices! $9.00? Maybe $90 %~) Actually, I didn't raise my tuning prices, I mostly got serious about freebees and discounts and sympathy stuff. I also looked closely at what I charge for some repair stuff and I'm more careful about what work I take in. I immediately began seeing WAY more $. I went to Guy Nichol's class at the Convention and now I'm cold and calculating :) Lance Lafargue, RPT Mandeville, LA New Orleans Chapter lafargue@iamerica.net -- >If you charge $9.00 to tune a piano, and you tune 10 pianos you've made >$90.00. >If you raise your price to $10 and lose a customer because of the price >raise, you tune 9 pianos and still make $90.00
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