There are special considerations for coating concrete and masonry surfaces. This article goes over the basics and provides videos and links to learn more.
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Better Branding for a Digital World: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Online Presence
In this article, Terry Begue, professional painting contractor and author of Attract and Keep Customers for Life, shares his insights on three ways to elevate your online presence.
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The Top 10 Questions that Painting Professionals Ask Time and Time Again
Long-time PPC Ask Your ProPartner™ columnist Rick Watson retired in December 2021. Before he left, we asked him about the most common questions he heard over his 34 years in the paint industry. In no particular order, here are his top 10 “ageless questions.”
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Spring 2022 Editor’s Picks: Some of Our Favorite Tools to Help Increase Productivity
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 Spring 2022 issue picks:
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Surface Prep: A New Masking Option for Production Painters
When it comes to production painting, you need a tape that sticks until the job’s done.
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5 Thoughts on Running a Family Business
This is the latest installment in the PPC magazine series Business Matters. This time: insights on running a family business.
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Customer Pain Points: How One Commercial Painting Company Resolves Them
More than three decades ago, The Kaloutas Company was busy building a distinguished name for itself with a record of successful and efficient painting projects for commercial and industrial customers throughout New England.
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True Colors: Get More Color Options Than Ever with Minwax® Wood Finishes
Advances in wood finish technology offer endless color possibilities. In the article, we’ll talk about choosing the right stain color, how to get dark, rich color, and more stain color tips.
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Pro to Pro with Steven Foglia: The Right Paint for the Job
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: Steven Foglia, Illini Paint Company, Decatur, Illinois.
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SuperDeck® Puts Technology to Work
Product lineup delivers real benefits you and your customers will notice
The SuperDeck® product collection offers a complete care system for exterior decks, whether they’re new or old. Contractors love the easy cleanup and application features of SuperDeck products, while customers will enjoy long-lasting performance and protection, not to mention a beautiful finish.
Alex Sinclair, Director of Product Information at Sherwin-Williams, knows the superior benefits of the SuperDeck product line are no accident. Development teams at Sherwin-Williams are constantly engineering product formulations to deliver maximum benefits. Below, Sinclair discusses features and benefits of three key SuperDeck product groups. Continue reading SuperDeck® Puts Technology to Work
Be Likeable — It Pays
Common courtesy is part of a business-building communication strategy
Your bid offered a low price using reputable products and your workmanship is highly regarded, yet your competitor won the job.
What’s up with that?
If you’ve ever encountered such a scenario in the painting business, the answer could be simple: The customer simply liked your competitor more.
The fact is people often hire people they like, a direct result of emotions and biases they’ve formed on the basis of personal interactions. Business is often as much about the relationships you build as the services you perform. And if you’re failing to build connections with your customer on a human level, you may be building obstacles that your pricing, product selection and workmanship are unable to overcome. Continue reading Be Likeable — It Pays
How Building a Strong Connection With Your Sherwin-Williams Rep Is a Game Changer
Commercial/Industrial Painting Contractor Sees Their Rep as a Key Team Member
According to Waukesha, WI – based Porta-Painting President & Owner Amanda Martin, there are four adjectives that best describe her Sherwin-Williams sales rep for the past 11 years, Kevin Zei: Continue reading How Building a Strong Connection With Your Sherwin-Williams Rep Is a Game Changer
How to Build Your Team
Employer Resources Board provides tools to address the hiring challenge
A program developed by Sherwin-Williams features a collection of resources designed to help painting contractors overcome the current hiring challenges facing the industry. Continue reading How to Build Your Team
Tips on Spray Tips
Choose the most productive spray tip for your job
Your paint sprayer can help deliver maximum productivity and efficiency — not to mention a premium finish — but only if the spray tip you’ve selected matches the task at hand and the materials you’ll be applying. Continue reading Tips on Spray Tips
The PRO+ App — Letting You Focus on What You Do Best
Sherwin-Williams PRO+ account tools can help grow your business and improve your productivity
We understand the goals and challenges of being a PRO painter.
That’s why we’ve made a set of tools and services, designed just for PROs like yourself, to help grow your business and improve your productivity and profitability. A Sherwin-Williams PRO+ account — available by registering at a Sherwin-Williams store and then signing in at swproplus.com — provides a wealth of benefits to PROs. And the PRO+ Business Tools at your disposal, including the PRO+ App, figure to be especially valuable in growing your productivity. Continue reading The PRO+ App — Letting You Focus on What You Do Best
It’s Preparation Time for Exterior Painting Season
Get ready for outdoor painting projects with these tips
Yes, many readers may step outside and realize that winter isn’t quite ready to give up control of the thermostat. However, that doesn’t mean a successful painting contractor should just be thinking interiors till Spring finally arrives. Continue reading It’s Preparation Time for Exterior Painting Season
One Contractor’s Path to Commercial Success
Transition from res-repaint focus to commercial requires effective networking, planning, and patience, contractor says
Commercial painting projects continue to keep contractors busy to the point that demand for services often exceeds the working capacity of available contractors. Continue reading One Contractor’s Path to Commercial Success