The best way to treat it is as if you sell your business. In a service business the fair market value of it is one years gross revenue. As you mentioned not everybody have their piano tuned on a regular basis. Therefore an annual income is a good scale to value a business. It all boils down to monetary value. Just my humble opinion after 41 years of experience in tuning, repairing and rebuilding and in retirement now, who sold his business after retirement with a satisfactory arrangement. Good luck, George Takats On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Michael Hagen <mchagen88 at hotmail.com>wrote: > Does anyone have some ideas as to coming up with dollar value of a tuning > client list. Although 1500 names in the database, as you know, not all of > them get their pianos tuned regularly. Clients move, sell the piano, stop > taking lessons etc. Best I've come up with is averaging, over several years > records, the real income produced, by who actually gets their piano tuned, > as some sort of value. Any other ideas, especially from those who have > actually sold such a list, would be appreciated. A 'value' needs to be > established due to divorce proceedings. > > > Michael > > > ------------------------------ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get > started.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100415/5489058e/attachment.htm>
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