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Read More »Is Pay-Per-Click the Answer to Getting Your Painting Business Found Online?
In the Painting Business, we rely heavily on a few things. Obviously, we rely on quality painters, trusty equipment, best practices, and a plethora of other facets unique to the Painting Business world. There is one process, however, that is essential to any business structured the way our Painting Companies are: we have to close […]
Read More »4 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 More »How 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 More »Generating Quality Painting Leads with Long-Tail Painting Contractor Keywords
Hey Guys, It’s Brandon Lewis here with Painter’s Weekly. I don’t know if you can see behind me, but we are high atop a mountain at a beautiful hiking spot and there’s a lot of water down there. But on the hike up and the hike down what we discovered is it doesn’t all come […]
Read More »Why 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 More »The 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 More »At 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 More »Why 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 More »Will 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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