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<DIV><FONT size=2>Jim,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I believe that if 10 to 15% of your clients are complaining of
your price being too high, your just about right. From your post, I'd boost it
to 20 to 25%.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=chadwick61@cox.net href="mailto:chadwick61@cox.net">David
Chadwick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">PTG</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 07, 2006 5:50
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> More work than I can
handle</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jim, </FONT></DIV>
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<P>Thanks for your suggestions. I have recently gone up in price to just over
the century mark. Presently I’m the high price in town for basic services. I
have thought of going even higher and offer a more comprehensive service call
to address issues which I would've otherwise have charged extra for but I
always seem to have a dilemma with asking for more. My thoughts are usually
that I'll suddenly dive bomb and loose all of my clientele. I'm Informing all
of my steady customers of another rate change next year..... just to soften
the blow.</FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David C. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David;<BR>If someone else has suggested this just take
it as my vote for your <BR>"problem" :-)<BR>Raise your prices. This will do
two things first it will leave you with more <BR>income and it will cut down
on the amount of work needful to generate the <BR>same income as you currently
get. Yes, you will lose some of your marginal <BR>customers but I would think
that the loss will be more than made up by your <BR>increased
prices. Since you are sending a goodly number of customers
to other techs <BR>this should not be a problem for you. Keep your increases
reasonable and <BR>consistent throughout your pricing stucture.
Don't just say it wwon't work <BR>because it has not failed in the past as
long as increases are reasonable. What <BR>is a reasonable
increase? Depends on what you feel comfortable with and where <BR>your rates
are now. Try it you'll like it.<BR>My thoughts.<BR>Jim B
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