Once again in 2023, PPC is teaming up with the Painting Contractors Association (PCA) on a series of articles to help you grow and improve your painting business. This year’s theme: Productivity is the path to profitability. In this article, Jon Bryant, CEO of Paint Scout, shares his secrets for foolproof estimating.
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Build Your Business Chops with Free PRO+ Training Webinars
Running a successful painting company. It’s more than just how to hold a paint brush or how to cut in a wall. There’s estimating, sales, marketing, accounting, managing people, and so much more. Sharing ideas about how to excel at the business side of painting is the concept behind the new PRO+ Training Series on the Sherwin-Williams YouTube channel.
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My 5 Biggest Mistakes, and the Lessons I Learned from Them to Improve My Business
In this article, PPC contributing writer Terry Begue talks about the biggest mistakes he made when he started his Ohio-based residential painting company, and what he did to correct them and turn his business around.
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Uncovering Opportunities: The Value of Adding Carpentry to Your Menu of Services
Uncovering Opportunities is an ongoing series of PPC magazine articles dedicated to finding smart ways to help professional painting contractors build and expand their businesses. For this story, we spoke with Paige NeJame, who has been the owner of CertaPro Painters of the South Shore since 2004, about the reasons pros should consider adding carpentry services to a residential painting business. Here’s what she told us:
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Start the Year Right
3 proactive ways to build your business
A new year means a new opportunity to find fresh ways to expand and improve your business. Whether you have been running your own business for decades or you’re just getting started, you likely want to know how to take your team to the next level.
Thankfully, Sherwin-Williams offers several productivity-enhancing tools that can help you make 2023 your business’ best year yet, with unique services that can help contractors recruit talented employees, train them in best practices, and save time on the jobsite.
The Pros and Cons of Taking on a Business Partner
Is partnering the right path for you and your business?
Adding a business partner may give your business an extra boost in revenue. After all, twice the brainpower and effort could add up to twice the productivity and profits.
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The Pro Path: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Your Business from the PCA
This article is the first of 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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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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I’m Stuck in the Weeds and Can’t Get Out! The Micromanager’s Recovery Guide
Do you have micromanaging tendencies? With a little self-awareness and some hard work, you can learn to let go. This 7-step approach will help you do it. Continue reading I’m Stuck in the Weeds and Can’t Get Out! The Micromanager’s Recovery Guide
Marketing Strategies: 4 Secrets for Powerful Testimonials
This article is based on an excerpt from the book Attract and Keep Customers for Life by Terry Begue, owner of Begue Painting and a regular contributor to PPC magazine. Continue reading Marketing Strategies: 4 Secrets for Powerful Testimonials
Noah Kanter on His Go-To Coatings and How Your Paint Supplier Can Help You Succeed
This summer, PPC hit the road for two days with Noah Kanter, a contractor serving residential customers in northern Vermont. In this article, we talk with him about his go-to coatings and the role his paint supplier plays in his success.
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Recruitment & Retention: How to Get Better at Networking to Make Better Hires
Friends, family, employees and colleagues are great places to look when you’re hiring. But are you making the most of your network?
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Are You (Really) Listening? And, How to Get Better At It
As your company’s leader, you don’t need to know everything. But you need to know who on your team can get you the answers you need.
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3 Keys to Generating More Word-of-Mouth Advertising
By Al Pirozzoli
Companies invest untold billions in every form of marketing imaginable. Although much of it is effective, there is one form that tops all the others. For effectiveness and results, referrals are second to none. Continue reading 3 Keys to Generating More Word-of-Mouth Advertising
4 Steps to Becoming a More Inspiring Leader
Habits can be a trap for people in leadership positions. As leaders, they should provide a compelling vision that inspires those around them. Instead, many of them lapse into automatic and mindless thinking. And that can affect every decision they make – and the actions of the people who report to them. Continue reading 4 Steps to Becoming a More Inspiring Leader
National Painting Week: Join Paint Pros Helping Out
Painting contractors are invited to lend their professional expertise in celebration of Sherwin-Williams’ 5th annual National Painting Week, set for May 22-30, 2016. Continue reading National Painting Week: Join Paint Pros Helping Out