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Ian Davlin DiscussionJob Postings

Northampton Community College Luthier Instructor

https://northampton.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NCC/details/Luthier-Instructor_JR3840 The staff and faculty of Northampton Community College share a single goal: to help students transform their lives through education. It's a goal that reaps rewards thousands of times over the course of a career. Employees at Northampton receive competitive compensation and an array of benefits while working on campuses located in a region with a very h…

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Business Model Presentation Youtube link

I just finished a new video. Its a PowerPoint slide show with scripted narration and commentary by me. The topic is my business model and workflow system. Its about 12 minutes long. Take a look and let me know if you have any feedback good or bad. It's easy enough to edit if there is anything anybody wants me to include that I didn't think of on my own

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Is it a good idea to take looth jobs from a competitor for some extra income?

Hello fellow looths! I'm in a pickle and am looking for some advice, hopefully you can help me out a bit. I currently have my own shop, repairing, doing maintenance, and an occasional build once or twice a year. I love doing it, but it's not generating enough income at the moment to be doing this full time. So far, I only get 5 star reviews and always get positive feedback from my customers, but I just don't have enough customers at the m…

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Hey Job, I am going to offer a somewhat differing opinion from Al on this one. I’ve often said, that doing what we do certainly beats wearing an orange apron at Home Depot. Not that there is anyt…
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Pricing feedback thread

Maybe there’s already a place for this but someone wants an old sentimental guitar modified with a Floyd rose and I haven’t done one of those in forever. Thinking back to when I was younger in the trade and stuff like this came up I would’ve loved to have a place to go where helpful repair folks hangout who might help me to avoid underbidding the hell out of a job. I used to bid everything low because I was thinking about the client and…

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Ian Davlin
I while back I quit bidding things I didn't really want to do so high people wouldn't get the work done. Half of the time they called my bluff and I was stuck with a job I didn't want to do. Much of t…