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New Products for Professional Painters
Paint has changed plenty in the past several decades, but the process of painting hasn’t. The paint brush has been around for 2,000 years, and the paint roller has been around since the 1940s. They’re just as useful as they’ve ever...
How Painting Contractors Can Use Their Website To Build Trust
When it comes to buying goods and services, people trust their own experiences. But many homeowners who need to hire a painting contractor are doing it for the first time – or at least the first time since they’ve moved to the area. Since...
During Recessions, Focused Painting Contractors Succeed
Recessions are not a fun time to be a business owner. But painting contractors who use them as an opportunity to master the basics put themselves in a position to survive the recession - and thrive in the years afterwards. Click here to...
Two Types of Painting Customers Who Will Be Hurt by The Recession – And Two that Won’t
As the calendar turned to 2020, experts were debating when a recession would hit. Now, they’re trying to predict how bad the Coronavirus-caused recession is going to be, and how long it’s going to last. Most experts think it’s extremely...
How Painting Contractors Can Overcome Customer Fear and Distress
One-third of people describe themselves as highly distressed right now during the Coronavirus pandemic. In most cases, you’ll need to get past that fear and distress before you can paint their house. Click here for three ways you can...
When Will Things Get Back to Normal for Painting Contractors? Here are Three Factors to Consider.
Right now, governors in most states are trying to answer the unanswerable: which restrictions should be lifted, and when? If they move too fast, there's a good chance everything will get shut down again. If they move too slow, millions...
Three Actions to Take When Stay-at-Home Orders End
Your business may have been open during the coronavirus pandemic, but most of your customers were stuck at home for the last month and didn't want anybody else in their house. Many states are beginning to lift stay-at-home orders in May....
Growing Through Recession: Remind Your Customers About the Value of Control
The year after the last recession started, Better Homes and Gardens said that people “gravitated towards a safe beige wall color for interiors.” And for accents? “More shades of beige were layered on almost every surface of the room.”...
Five Types of Painting Jobs that Are Still Going Strong
To say that some people are facing tough times right now is an understatement. Since the 1960s, the US economic output has never shrunk more than eight percent in any given quarter. Some banks are predicting a thirty percent decline....