Moreover, it's opportunities like that that can often serve as the impetus to develop a shop. Making at least $10,000 on a project can go a long way to setting up a small shop in which you could not only do the work but then be more aggressive seeking other "shop" work. A missed opportunity. Interactions with other techs at the convention may have offered some insight into the business side of things, how to take advantage of opportunities and grow the business. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of tnrwim at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:58 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Lost business About two years ago, I had the opportunity to do a - complete - rebuild (finish and all) on an old square grand. Was probably going to make at least $10,000 - BUT - I had no shop to move the piano to SO I lost the job. Now, I hope some smart-a** is not going to try and tell me that learning about square grands at a convention would have gained me this job! -- Duaine Hechler - I'm sorry, Duaine, but this makes absolutely no sense to me. You didn't "lose" the job. You should never have given a bid to do the work in the first place if you knew you couldn't do the work because you didn't have a place to do it. None of us "lose" work. We don't get jobs because we either don't have the knowledge or the facilities to do the work in the first place. A customer might decide not to have you do the work for a variety of reasons. That still doesn't mean you "lost" the job. As far as that assine last statement, you have obviously never attended a convention or seminar. If you had, you would know that there are no "smart asses", only dedicated technicians who give of their time, and want to share their knowledge with you, so that you will become a better technician. Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100519/d0389ae8/attachment.htm>
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