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Can Your Online Presence Increase Your Leads?
Can your presence online actually increase the number of leads you get each month? Look at it this way, with over 90% of all searches being done online, it is essential to command a superior online presence. Meet Mike Balding. Mike and his company started working with APPC to build up his digital footprint to…
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 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…
Read MoreHow 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 MoreProtected: Painting Franchisor Growth
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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 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,…
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