<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Jim Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I hire a secretary who does my computer entry, returns my voicemail messages, 6 month and annual appointment calls and scheduling, and night before reminder calls. If she can't reach a customer after 3 calls, she sends a postcard so that they don't fall through the cracks. Her services cost me the equilivent of 4 tunings a month,<BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" style="font-size: 20px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font-size: 17px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"> but she keeps me busy all the time</SPAN> and I don't have to spend my time doing all those things that I don't enjoy and that don't pay nearly as much as piano work does.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Bing bing bing bing. I've been preaching the incredible freedom of hiring someone at $12-20 per hour so you can have more energy and self-esteem and fun to go out and make $60-100 per hour. Sound good? This guy's taken the plunge, and it's worked out great. I took the plunge 4 years ago and it changed my life and my business in a radically positive way.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>PLEASE take a look at treating yourself with the respect you deserve and handing off stuff somebody can do as well or better than you at a fraction of the cost and time. Work smart, brothers and sisters. Ask for help, sincerely, and you'll be amazed at what comes.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>