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How Painting Contractors Can Survive (and Thrive) During a Recession
The construction industry was among the hardest hit during the last recession. The damage was also long-lasting; in 2014 (five years after the recession officially ended) construction spending was at only 80% of what it was before the...
Earning Painting Leads from Other Professionals
Are you looking for more painting jobs? One excellent source lives right in your community! There are plenty of other professionals that interact with homeowners in need of repairs. Some examples include real estate agents, remediation...
House Painters: A Thirty Second Process That Earns Five Star Reviews
Nine out of ten people read online reviews, and only a quarter of them would do business with a company rated 1 or 2 stars. Click here for a process to boost the reputation of your business with almost no added work on your part.
Painting Contractors – 3 Key Insights to Help You Grow Your Business
As a service provider for the painting contractor industry, we are constantly looking for ways to help painting contractors grow and succeed. We work hard to do this for our customers, but we also create a lot of content through blog...
Are You Spending Too Much Time Giving Quotes that Don’t Turn into Jobs?
We recently heard the story of a local cabinet painter who was spending 30 minutes pulling together every quote that she did and doing an average of eight quotes a day. She was dedicating at least four hours a day to creating quotes...
Don’t Lose Your Credibility with Misleading Marketing
Have you had this experience? You get excited about a product based on seeing a picture of it online or in a commercial, so you order it. Then when you receive the product, you discover something that makes you feel like you were misled,...
Painting is Personal: Personalizing Your Follow-up
Many painting contractors face intense pressure to provide the lowest price quote to win jobs, but doing this can eat most or all of the profit in a painting job. This is the third in a three-part series about how to earn business...
Painting is Personal: Personalizing Your Walkthrough
Many painting contractors face intense pressure to provide the lowest price quote to win jobs, but doing this can eat most or all of the profit in a painting job. This is the second in a three-part series about how to earn business...
Painting is Personal: Personalizing Your Quoting Process
Many painting contractors face intense pressure to provide the lowest price quote to win jobs, but doing this can eat most or all of the profit in a painting job. This is the first in a three-part series about how to earn business...