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 ...

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 ...

Why Traditional Masculinity Is Needed More Now Than Ever 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 ...

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 ...

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=8HMWdYIvwyw But if I’m being honest with ...

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 ...