Paint choices matter. Knowing which paint to use when is key to a beautiful, long-lasting interior paint job.
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Revolutionary: Get Your Sanding Done Faster with the Radius 360°
Want to help your crews increase productivity and efficiency in the all-important surface prep phase of your paint jobs?
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The Right Colors for Every Job: The 2023 Commercial Colormix® Forecast
Use the six palettes of the 2023 Sherwin-Williams Commercial Colormix® Forecast to help your customers in the color selection process. These palettes have been selected by the company’s color experts using the latest paint color trends for hospitality, healthcare, education and commercial jobs, plus new residential and multi-family properties.
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Are You Ready for Next Year? 2023 Business Planning Tips from the PCA
This article by Tom Reber is the fourth in a series from PPC and the Painting Contractors Association (PCA) designed to help you understand and prepare for the challenges of business growth.
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Addressing the Labor Shortage: Industry Leaders Work with Local Agencies to Develop New Painting Talent
As professional painting contractors are all too aware, there is an acute worker shortage affecting not only the coatings industry but the building trades as a whole. Now, some forward-thinking industry leaders are banding together to do something about it.
Winter 2022 Editor’s Picks: Tools to Help Increase Your Productivity and Efficiency
As part of our ongoing mission to help painting professionals maximize their jobsite productivity, each issue of PPC features a roundup of some of our favorite application tools and essential job site equipment and supplies. Here are our Winter 2022 issue picks:
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Social Media Advertising for Painting Contractors: Facebook Ads
In this article, we asked the marketing experts at Sherwin-Williams for tips on how to reach more customers with Facebook Ads.
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Terra: The 2023 Colormix® Color Forecast
Paint color trends are always changing and evolving. As a pro painter, the challenge is to stay current so you can best help your customers in the color selection process.
One excellent resource is the annual Sherwin-Williams Colormix® Color Forecast. Each year, the company’s Color Forecast Team of color professionals spend months researching color, design and pop culture trends to develop their latest paint color recommendations. Continue reading Terra: The 2023 Colormix® Color Forecast
Project Solutions: Pike Place Painters
In each issue of PPC, we go behind the scenes to interview pro painters about some of their most challenging projects. This time: Cole Palea talks about his company’s work repainting a Seattle landmark – the Pike Place Market sign.
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Growth Tips from the PCA: Delegation Requires Follow-through and Follow-up
This article by Daphne Young is the third in a new four-part series from PPC and the Painting Contractors Association (PCA) designed to help you understand and prepare for the challenges of business growth.
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Fall 2022 Editor’s Picks: Tools to Help Increase Your Productivity and Efficiency
As part of our ongoing mission to help painting professionals maximize their jobsite productivity, each issue of PPC features a roundup of some of our favorite application tools and essential job site equipment and supplies. Here are our Fall 2022 issue picks:
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At the Top of His Game: Quest for Quality Fuels Four Decades of Success for Arizona Painter Doug Noble
Prescott, Arizona-based Douglas E. Noble Painting LLC was first profiled in the Summer 2015 issue of PPC magazine. We caught up with owner Doug Noble for the third installment of our Where Are They Now? series.
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Get Organized with Purdy’s New Three-Tiered Interlocking Box System
A place for everything and everything in its place. That’s what pro painters will have with the new Purdy® Painter’s Storage Box.
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5 Thoughts on Serving Your Customers
This is the latest installment in the PPC magazine series Business Matters. This time: insights on running a family business.
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Respirators and Facial Hair: Everything You Need to Know
Disposable respirators are a good way to protect you and crew on the job site. In this article, the product experts at 3M answer common contractor questions about using respirators when you have a beard or other facial hair.
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PRO+ductive Solutions Launched to Help Ease Contractor Challenges
Have you heard yourself say any of the following?
- “I need to be more productive.”
- “I spend more time on paperwork than painting or growing my business.”
- “Most of my jobs require my crews to be efficient – get in, get out, but do a quality job.”
- “Demand for work is higher than ever, I need my crews to do more jobs to keep up with demand.”
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Pro to Pro: Making it Personal with Charles Dallaville Jr.
For more than 30 years, PPC magazine has been on job sites throughout the U.S. and Canada asking residential and commercial paint pros to share their stories. In our Pro to Pro column, we recap some of the best advice contractors have received and passed on over the last three decades. THIS TIME: Charles Dallaville, Jr., Painting Plus, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
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