Monthly Painting Business Health Check-Up

Sep 24, 2018 | Blog

Running a painting business is time consuming.  After ordering paint and supplies, completing paint jobs, providing customer quotes, marketing, employee issues, and bills, there’s sometimes not enough time or mental energy left to dedicate to managing the business. ...

3 Keys to Success for Small Painting Businesses

Sep 12, 2018 | Blog

The majority of painting companies in the United States have fewer than five employees.  In fact, most of them have only one employee.  Small companies have some advantages over large ones – there’s no waste on middle management, multiple offices or different teams...

Pricing Your Painting Services for Profit

Aug 31, 2018 | Blog

One of the most important parts of running any business is the difference between gross and net margin.  Consider this example: you quote a job at $3,000 plus paint.  The job costs you $1,500 in labor and equipment you need to buy or replace.  How much money did you...

Having Multiple Websites Is Bad For Your Business

Aug 24, 2018 | Blog

There are plenty of reasons a painting business ends up with multiple websites.  Maybe your old provider never bothered to take your website down.  Maybe a friend offered to build you one years ago, but it didn’t perform well so you bought one from a professional...

Painters: Protect Yourselves from These Three Things

Aug 9, 2018 | Blog

Wall coatings have gotten much safer over the years.  Arsenic-infused wallpaper was popular in the 1800s, but became less common by the 1900s.   Lead paint was banned in the 1970s.  Oil-based paints, which can lead to poisoning, are much less common than they were in...