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Five Questions To Answer Before Marketing Your Painting Business
To market your business successfully, you need to give people a reason to select you instead of other painters - ideally a reason other than a coupon that makes you the cheapest painter in town. Click here to learn five things you need to...
The Best Plan: Work Less, Make More Money
When you first start a painting business, there aren’t enough customers to fill the day, and it’s tough to make ends meet. Over the years, however, word spreads that your work is good, your prices are fair and you do what you say you’ll...
The Importance of Consistency in Marketing
In many areas of the US, painting work is much more plentiful in the summer. The biggest reason is that exterior painting isn’t possible during the winter months in very cold areas. Another reason is that many houses are painted right...
The Perfect Marketing Balance for a Painting Contractor
There are many ways to market your paint company, and you’re likely to use several of them to build your customer base. But whether you’re preparing to put together a direct mail campaign, having a website built for your company, or...
The Best Painting Businesses in the World Have These Four Things
It takes far more than great painting skills to have a great painting business. Click here to learn about the four elements required for any business to be sustainably successful.
New Painting Business? Do These Things In The First 90 Days.
Starting your own painting business can be scary. Without an established customer base, marketing budget or references, it can seem like you’ll never get enough clients to break even. The business bills don’t shrink just because you...
Want to Turn Leads Into Sales? Respond Quickly.
The internet has made it faster and easier than ever to communicate. While this has been great for society as a whole, it’s created a major challenge for small businesses; people expect a much faster response time to questions than they...
If Your Logo is On It, Your Reputation is On the Line
Have you ever been driving down the road and been intentionally cut off by a driver in a business truck or van? Of course you have – everyone’s had that experience. Now ask yourself – if you were lucky enough to see the business’s name...
Three Reasons Painting Businesses Fail – And How To Avoid Them
It takes hard work to run a business. While dealing with day-to-day problems, major financial issues can creep up on you. Click here for three of them.