Choosing color can be one of the most challenging parts of any paint project. Are you doing everything you can to make the process as painless as possible for your customers?
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Time-Saving Tools: The Latest High-Tech Ways to Make Better Use of Your Time and Streamline Your Day-to-Day Tasks
Time. Nobody, it seems, has enough of it. That’s especially true if you’re running your own painting company. In this article, we dive into some of the best new tools and resources that can help paint pros be more efficient on the job site and in the office.
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A Relationship You Can Trust
A&K Painting’s success has been powered by personal relationships with Sherwin-Williams
For A&K Painting, it’s all about relationships. “A relationship you can trust” is the tagline for the Charlotte-based commercial and industrial painting company, and president Kevin Robbins says it’s at the core of their identity. Continue reading A Relationship You Can Trust
Get the Most Out of the Sherwin-Williams PRO+ Program
Run your business from anywhere with digital tools designed for you.
Owning your own painting business means wearing a lot of hats. While you may not know what unique challenges today will bring, you can be prepared for anything with the digital tools available through the Sherwin-Williams PRO+ Program. Continue reading Get the Most Out of the Sherwin-Williams PRO+ Program
5 Ways to Kick-Start Your Business for the New Year
A little bit of planning in December can go a long way toward the continued health and growth of a business in the next year. In this article, we’ll look at five ways for professional painting company owners to take stock and make plans to be more productive, profitable and generally improve their businesses in 2024. Continue reading 5 Ways to Kick-Start Your Business for the New Year
3 Ways to Start the Color Conversation
Bust through homeowner indecision with these icebreakers
For some customers, committing to a specific color can be intimidating. What if it’s not quite right? What if it looks different in real life than how they imagined it in their head? What if this color goes out of style almost as soon as it dries? That fear can lead to paralysis—and may delay the start of your painting project waiting while you wait for a decision.
But you don’t have to wait. By engaging the customer in a conversation about color, you can help them gain the confidence to lock in their color selection and move forward. Best of all, it doesn’t require you to be a color expert; all you have to do is get them talking and pay attention. Continue reading 3 Ways to Start the Color Conversation
Set Your Business Apart
These tools and resources can give your business a competitive advantage
In a crowded painting market, you want to give your business every possible advantage. Standing out from the crowd means consistently reevaluating your business practices, seeking out learning opportunities for you and your crew, and finding the right tools and resources—like the ones found in the Sherwin-Williams PRO+ program—no matter what your business needs are. These are the things that can help you gain an edge over your competitors. Continue reading Set Your Business Apart
Here Are Three More Great Ways to Work Smarter with PRO+ductive Solutions
Want to get the job done faster? Want to save money and time with services and tools that make your entire business run smoother? Want to build your business with the services and tools you need today plus cutting-edge solutions for tomorrow? PRO+ductive Solutions is an ongoing initiative started by Sherwin-Williams to help contractors save time, complete jobs quickly, and save money to generate more profit.
The latest additions to this part of the company’s PRO+ program include a time- and labor-saving pressure washer, virtual color consulting resources for homeowners and an advanced weather-adaptive paint that helps you be more productive on exterior projects.
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Never Guesstimate Again: The Foolproof Way to Estimate Painting Projects
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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Dealing With Difficult Customers
Turn micromanaging, indecisive, and demanding clients into glowing recommendations
Difficult customers can come in all shapes and sizes; spend any time as a painting contractor and you’ll run into one eventually. Every contractor can probably recall a customer who made their work so difficult that they started to regret taking the job.
Unfortunately, these situations aren’t only frustrating, but can potentially hurt your business’ reputation if not handled correctly. As such, you need to be prepared for these customers in order to stay successful. And in a competitive marketplace where word-of-mouth is king, retaining customers and generating repeat business can grow your bottom line. In this article, we offer suggestions for how to professionally respond to three of the most common types of difficult customers.
Faster Color Choices, Faster Finishes
Provide guidance and expertise with Sherwin-Williams color tools and services
One of the trickiest challenges pros face is helping customers make color choices. As a contractor, you may not feel like an expert on color or have the time to dedicate to help homeowners through the possibly overwhelming color selection process. Thankfully, with Sherwin-Williams in your corner, you have all the tools necessary to help even the most indecisive customer imagine the perfect palette.
Use Color to Win
Turn color into your competitive advantage
Even though you may feel like more of an expert in products than color, that’s no barrier to helping your customers in their color journey. Thanks to a suite of innovative tools from Sherwin-Williams, you can direct your customers to find the color they’re looking for, learn which colors are trending, and meet virtually with an expert design team to find the perfect palette for them.
These three services can help you leverage color to succeed.
Haste Makes Waste
Slowing down will help your team do more
One of Benjamin Franklin’s most notable quotes reads: “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
Not surprisingly, those words ring as true today as they did back in the early 1700s of colonial America. In fact, our own Navy SEALS have incorporated a similar attitude when training new members: “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
In the painting profession, there’s a big difference between doing a job quickly and rushing a job. Hurry often leads to sloppy work, which can result in costly callbacks and tarnish your reputation for delivering quality work.
Power Breakfasts Forge Strong Contractor/Sales Rep Bond
Sherwin-Williams Sales Rep Becomes Coach, Teammate and Friend
Many contractors view Sherwin-Williams’ sales reps as valuable assets to their business. But not many contractors can say that it was a sales rep who inspired them to start their business.
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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
For Painting Contractors, It’s Always ‘Tax Time’
But Some Year-End Strategies Can Pay Dividends Now
Accountants, tax advisors, and financial planners agree: Be mindful of your tax strategy year-round as opposed to once or twice a year, and you’ll ease the pressures of taxes and minimize your tax burden. Continue reading For Painting Contractors, It’s Always ‘Tax Time’