Business Tips
How to Respond to a Client When You Lose a Painting Job to a Lower Price
How frustrating is it when you lose a project to price? Now, I have people constantly come to me saying, Brandon, we have illegal, we have unlicensed painters in our area. I’m constantly losing the price and I cannot compete. I just got an email from someone that said, “You were $2,000 higher. You were…
Read MoreNew Decade. Same Painting Grind?
Even if you aren’t one of those “New Year’s Resolution People,” the beginning of a new decade must have you asking a few questions… #1 – How will I increase my income this year (or will it be the same or worse than this year?) #2 – What will it take to make my business…
Read MoreOn Turning 40… Plus 12 Life Lessons I’m Still Learning
Yesterday I hit the BIG 4-0… First, I’d like to thank you for being a part of my day-to-day journey. As I age, I am convinced I have surrounded myself with the best people this planet has to offer – and that I am working for people in an industry that I admire and appreciate. Second, I…
Read More4 Ways the Internet Keeps Painting Businesses Working in Winter
We all know the hardest time of year to be a Painting Contractor: Winter. Chances are, just reading that word made you shudder, and not because you’re thinking about how cold it gets in December. Right now, it’s summer! Leads are coming in, your closing rates are up, and customers are looking at their new…
Read MoreHow an APPC Membership Can Change Your Painting Business – And Your Life!
If you missed Thursday’s APPC Membership Q&A Call because you were “making it happen” in the field, now’s a great time to listen to the audio replay of it above! Often, Painting Contractors follow our work at the Academy for Professional Painting Contractors and Painter’s Weekly for years without really understanding how we transform painting…
Read MoreWhy Pre-Qualifying Your Painting Leads Is an Expensive Rookie Mistake
Hey, it’s Brandon Lewis here with Painter’s Weekly, and I want to talk about pre-qualifying leads and how it is so unbelievably stupid and that those who are teaching it to you are costing you tons of income and equity. Let me explain in three points. Point number one: how many times have you been…
Read MoreThe Problem with Masculinity: There Isn’t Enough of It
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve watched or heard about Gillette’s recent controversial video. It depicts a wide variety of shoddy behavior and makes the wholesale assertion that men are at worst the source of it – at best complicit in letting it happen while creating a culture that encourages it. If you are…
Read MoreAt the paint store coffee pot, Brian’s 2019 painting predictions…
Two days ago, I was dropping of flyers at local paint stores about the 2019 Painting Profits Summit. There was a little bit of a line to talk to the clerk, so I got a cup of coffee and spoke to an owner named Brian for a while about what he thought the new year held…
Read MoreWhy Your Painting Estimator Can’t Close Sales at High Rates
Believe me, I understand your frustration… It’s expensive to hire, train, manage and pay a full-time estimator. It’s even MORE frustrating when their estimate closing rate is low and you constantly lose to low-priced painters. Basically, you are PAYING someone to LOSE business for you. It’s not good. But if I’m being honest with you,…
Read MoreWill you pass on your painting business to your son?
Please don’t find this subject-line offensive. I don’t write the mail, I just deliver it. As best I can determine in auditing my subscriber lists name-by-name, ownership in independent painting businesses skews 97% male. I’m not giving an opinion on it, simply stating the observable reality. It’s no surprise that you find a lot of father-son…
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