Painting Tips
Painting Franchise vs Independent: Which Is Right
Somebody deciding to start a painting business now faces a question that did not really exist a generation ago: build your own, or buy into…
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Tips, guides, and advice for painting contractors on pricing, estimating, and growing your business.
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Painting Business Succession Plan: If You Stop
Succession sounds like a problem for large companies and for people close to retirement. For a painting business it is a much more immediate question…
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How to Sell a Painting Business: The Process
Most painting businesses are never sold. They are closed, quietly, when the owner stops, and whatever was built goes with them. That is not usually…
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Restaurant Painting Projects: Working Between Services
A restaurant is the most constrained interior a painter regularly meets. It cannot close, the surfaces are contaminated in ways no domestic wall ever is,…
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Hotel Painting Projects: Working Around Paying Guests
Every hotel room you are standing in is a room that is not being sold. That single fact drives almost everything about how this work…
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School Painting Contracts: Working to the Summer Window
School work is attractive for reasons that are easy to see: large simple surfaces, repeat budgets, an institution that pays reliably, and a client who…
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HOA Painting Projects: Working With a Board
An HOA repaint looks like the best kind of work: a large predictable scope, several buildings, one point of contact and a client who has…
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Painting Referral Request Message: Asking Without the Awkwardness
Referred customers are the best work a painting business gets. They arrive pre trusted, they compare prices less, they haggle less, and they cost nothing…
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Painting Review Request Message: How to Ask, and When
Almost every painter knows reviews matter and almost none ask consistently. The gap is not motivation, it is that the moment passes. The customer is…
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Painting Price Increase Letter: Telling Customers Properly
Raising prices on a stranger is easy, because they never knew the old number. Raising them on a customer you have worked for three times…