Brandon, this may be the most helpful email you’ll ever read from me. Delete it at your own personal peril... The other day, I was on the phone with a brand new member who had been on my email list for a long time. 6 years to be exact. He knew things weren’t going very ...

A lot of people have a lot of opinions about running a painting business. If you read the posts on Facebook groups for painters, you’ll see that. Not only does everyone have a strong opinion, each painter is convinced he’s 100% right – on everything. I’m only exaggerating a little bit. You know this is ...

If you’re not getting the best performance out of your painting website, here’s a little checklist of what may be wrong. This is something I’ve compiled after spending a few years constructing and optimizing websites exclusively for painting business owners. Just like I see the exact same problems time-and-time again in operations, sales, marketing and ...

Yesterday, one of my APPC members was really down on himself – in my opinion, unnecessarily so. He was worried about how far out he was booking jobs. He was worried about all the estimates he had to give. “How am I going to make these clients happy since we are so far booked out? ...

I eat lunch every day. I typically go for a little walk and I think I'm just going to start talking to you about the painting industry as I do it. And so I really wish that you could be with me on all these calls that I conduct with painting companies every day, because ...

Brandon, Well, it looks like Home Advisor is in hot water again. This time, it’s with the Federal Trade Commission. Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said of Home Advisor “platforms should not use false claims and phony opportunities to prey on workers and small businesses.” If you’ve ever used these ...