Diane In my book, there is a chapter?about how to figure out the value of a tuning business. There are two different methods. To be sure,?they?are not the only way, but?it will at least give you some guidelines. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner at msn.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:51 pm Subject: [pianotech] The value of a customer list? John Cook, RPT, Portland, OR Chapter, passed away recently after a sudden illness.? John was?a gentleman and?a fine technician.? I liked him a lot, but am leaving it to others who knew him more than I did, (since I have only known him a short while), to write more about his life.? ? Why I'm writing here is to ask your collective (and individual) advice for his wife, Fran, who needs to sell his business.? What Fran needs help on most is his customer list.? She wants to sell it to one (or more) responsible technicians who do the same?high quality service that John did, at a price that is fair to both her and the buyer. ? I have researched the archives and printed out the answers to a tech who wanted to know the value of his business because he planned to retire.? Our chapter president has contacted home office, but, according to Fran, they could not give her much help.? So, we hope you all have some actual experiences, or creative ideas, to help Fran out. ? Thank you, Diane (who will show Fran how to subscribe to pianotech) ? Diane Hofstetter = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090301/90521c2b/attachment.html>
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