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I've been making a "living" doing guitar repair for 13 years. I had my own independent shop at Guitar Center stores (the ONLY lucrative arrangement in the biz-maybe sam ash) from 2001-2009 and ended up with all 4 stores in the Atlanta area. I left when they started "GC Garage"(techs are now employees at most stores). I worked from home a bit and considered opening a shop but the problem was that I couldn't get "my" customer list from GC. They made vague legal threats over it and I've been working my way out of the business ever since! It's an old-fashoned business that relies on word-of-mouth and a nice sized customer list. It's VERRRRY tough to build a customer base from the ground up. I should have been keeping names and numbers but I figured they were in GC's system when I needed them. It's not a lucrative business at all and I now work for maple street guitars which is one of the busiest shops in Atlanta and we're really slow right now(like scary slow for the last 6 months). The musical instrument retail world is rough these days and most techs stay at their jobs for years and suck up all the customers. Finding a store that will take you on would be the best idea (you're probably better than 90% of the hacks out there!). You could build the customer list while making an hourly wage and break out when it makes sense. After all this time I'm working on a startup online company-many more/better opportunities there. Good luck! tonesville fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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