From marketing to business operations to winning more bids, we covered plenty of topics in 2018. Three of these topics, however, were far more popular than the rest. Unsurprisingly, these three topics each have the potential to have a significant impact on your painting business in the coming months and years.
How Painting Contractors Can Land the Best Customers
If you’ve got the wrong customers, you can work yourself to death and go broke doing it. The wrong customers want the cheapest price for any painting work they get. The right customers are willing to pay to have something done right instead of done cheap.
Finding and landing these customers, however, isn’t always easy. Everyone wants their business, and they’re sensitive being taken advantage of. This post explains what you need to provide to these customers to convince them you’re the painting contractor for the job.
Five Ways to Get Paint Jobs Quickly
One of the biggest challenges for any business is getting off the ground before you run out of gas. After paying for all of the upfront costs of starting a business, and often reducing hours or quitting other jobs completely, money is tight. Monthly expenses keep coming due even as you’re trying to find your first few clients.
While a website is the most cost-effective way to generate leads, it’s not the quickest – it takes a few months to get searching. If you are a painting contractor who needs leads fast, this post provides a few ways to get them that don’t cost too much for a fledgling business.
Three Reasons Painting Businesses Fail and How to Avoid Them
Twenty percent of small businesses fail in their first year, and half of them fail in their first five years. As rewarding as starting a business can be, having it fail so quickly can be devastating, both emotionally and financially. That’s why it’s so important not to lose sight of the bigger-picture reasons businesses fail, even as you’re pushing hard for new business. This infographic covers three of those reasons and explains how you can avoid them.
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