A: When I started our business in 2001, I began with both power washing and painting. I thought it made sense to be full-service in the offering. But because of where I’m located, painting is our year-round service, while the power washing is really only an option seven to nine months of…
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1 What drove you to become an ‘elite’ painter versus a ‘commodity’ painter? Painting is a commodity industry. Anyone can pick up the phone and find one of three types of guys: the cheap guy who’s always busy, the middle commodity guy who’s not so busy, or the ‘elite’ guy who…
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1. WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OR CAPABILITY YOU LOOK FOR IN A PAINTING CONTRACTOR? What really matters to me is some consistency of contact. I like it when a business assigns an actual project manager who serves as my point of contact throughout the entire project. However, I appreciate that…
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Tech. It’s just a silly four-letter word in the eyes of some pros, but let’s face it: the right technology tools can help any business owner get a lot more done by streamlining—or even eliminating—old, tired manual and paper processes. Even more, deploying the right technology for your enterprise could help it…
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While most businesses are finding that employees prefer benefits over pay raises, that’s not ALWAYS the case in the painting industry, In fact, when asked if the employees of Crestwood Painting, LLC valued benefits over a pay raise, company president Jacque Kelly answered with a resounding “No.” “Over the past few years,…
MoreMatching colors on commercial and residential projects can be tricky and time-consuming. But thanks to the technology packed into today’s color-matching devices, you can save yourself time, valuable resources, and some extra trips to the paint store by avoiding costly mis-matches—all for a few hundred dollars or so. Small enough to fit…
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