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 How to Have More Fun Running Your Painting BusinessEverything comes with instructions, why not a painting company? Call it automating your business, any time you can automate a procedure you free up your time. An automated business can run without a manager, you. Can your company run for any length of time without you? Can you take a vacation? Mark Up and Profit or How to Sell at Prices Higher Than our CompetitionYou might think that there is a single thing that will help a small painting business to make money. You keep saying to yourself, If Joe Blow would only work harder and smarter, or if you lived in a different area, or this and that or some other lame excuse or reason why you don't make any money. Maybe the brainstorm occurs and you think that if you buy your paint cheaper you will make money on your jobs. Secrets of Marketing Your Painting BusinessWhere do the jobs come from? How do we get new customers? How do we expand into a new area. How do we market? Do we just throw dollars at everything that is screaming to us, "buy from me, I will send you all the customers you want. Do we take one big burst of advertising to everyone? Getting From a to B - the Business PlanAsk around, ask people why a business needs a plan. Chances are you will hear, "You need a business plan in case you need financing, and the bank wants one from you. Your Company's Guidance System, ManagementThe first thought that goes into the management of a business is the goal of the business. Or another way to look at it is, what do you want this business to do for you? As all motivational speakers, self help people and anyone in the business of helping people achieve success, will tell you a man or a business without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. A ship with a rudder will get to its destination, whereas a rudderless ship will be all over the place. What is the Going Rate for Overhead and Why I Ask This Question About Painting ContractorsCalculating overhead - Secrets of knowing what hourly rate to charge for your work. Hiring is Fun, Firing is Not!Human Resources are the one part that if not working, can make your life Hell on earth.
We can control just about any phase of our companies operations. Your own sales, marketing, all are objective relationships; but, when it comes to people all bets are off. Just when you get thing running smoothly something changes. Sales - a Dirty WordSalesperson - a pushy, loud and arrogant hand shaking backslapper. Right? Time and Material Jobs - Everybody Wins! - Wrong!On first glance this seems like a win-win situation. Usually when there is a job that is difficult to estimate due to unknown factors contractors will fall back to T&M; because, they believe they are safe. They reason to themselves and the customer that if they estimate they may be higher that it really is. And they tell the customer that they will save, etc, etc. How Much Does it Cost? EstimatingNobody wants to work for nothing, but many painter do when they don't charge for all the things that are part of each job. If you intend to do a complete job, and your customer is asking for a complete job, then you should be charging for a complete job. Leave something off of the estimate and you are working for nothing.
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