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The Best Way to Calculate Estimates for Residential Paint Jobs
Do you have an effective process for estimating new paint jobs? If you’re a painting contractor, understanding your pricing is critical in order to win bids and bring your projects in on budget. Stop guessing and start using documented data from the field to develop accurate estimates that meet your budget more often and keep…
Read MoreWhat Are the Most Effective Ways to Build Referrals for Painting Contractors
How are you currently building referrals and repeat business for your painting company? Often, I’ll hear painting contractors tell me that word of mouth is their best form of advertising, but when I press them on specifically what they do, the answer is usually absolutely nothing. Meaning, word of mouth is something that happens, even…
Read MoreIs Subcontracting Right for Your Commercial Painting Company?
Are subcontractors right for your commercial painting business? Or if you own a residential painting company and you do some commercial work, are subcontractors right for that type of work in your business? For commercial painting companies who want to extend their capabilities and handle large commercial projects, working with subcontractors can potentially be a…
Read MoreHow to Get More Paint Jobs When Business Is Slow
What do you do to generate leads and to find business when things are slow? Whether it’s back to school, getting out of school for summer break, some kind of terrible catastrophe, or the winter slow season. What do you do to keep the phone ringing? Understand Organic Demand for Painting Jobs The first thing…
Read MoreCharging for Painting Estimates Is Stupid and Costly for Painters
Charging for painting estimates is remarkably dumb. It impacts your income in amazingly negative ways, and it’s no way to really solve the problem of anemic closing rates. I’m Brandon Lewis with Painters Academy and Painters Weekly. A lot of people are jumping on this bandwagon of over pre-qualifying people over the phone or…
Read MoreFinancing for Painting Contractors That Wins More Jobs
When selling large projects, financing for painting contractors is essential to increase your closing rates. If you aren’t offering financing options yet other painters are, you stand to lose a certain percentage of projects every year. However, most large finance companies can take 7-14% of your project in “fees” which can cut into your personal…
Read MoreHow To Increase Billable Rates as a Painting Contractor
Painting contractors that want to grow their business know that there are others in the industry that can take them to the next level. Meet Brian Reis. Brian aspired to grow his business and to be a million-dollar company. He was also smart enough to realize that to make that mark he would need to…
Read MoreIs Your Painting Business Built of Straw, Sticks or Brick?
Hey guys, it’s Brandon Lewis here. I have a guest star with me it’s my oldest Silvia. And it’s funny I grew up watching Looney Tunes and what are those called, Merry Melodies and Sylvia likes those as well. And she watches one of them in particular that’s on my mind right now and it’s…
Read More8 Phase Process for Protecting Your Painting Profits from Coronavirus – Download FREE Checklist!
If you are worried about generating leads, closing sales or profitably producing painting projects in the midst of the Coronavirus scare, I urge you to set aside time quickly to watch this video and download the checklist associated with this training found below this video. Click This Link to Download The 8-Phase Process for Protecting…
Read MoreCorona Virus and Painting – 5 Things to Ignore and 18 Warning Signs
Hey, painting contractors are asking me if they should be worried about this coronavirus and I’m not very worried about it and I don’t think you should be either. Wash your hands, stay away from China, you’re going to be just fine. We’re all going to be just fine. Things that are outside of…
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