The Online Resource for the Painting Industry
Note: This is Part 1 of a 2-part series focused on helping painting contractors increase their online presence by providing practical social media marketing tips and techniques. When a contractor (or any business for that matter) decides to get serious about online marketing and social media, they often are left scratching their head asking, “Where […]
If you are involved at any level in the paint industry, and you are reading this, then you probably spend some minutes of your day in some shape or form as a participant in the social medial and blog spheres. And you likely understand that part of that involves being open to using the power […]
I still say choosing a color scheme for the kitchen is the most challenging. Ironically, it has the least amount of wall space after all the appliances and cabinets are in but the color you do choose, has to be perfect! Just think about all the time you spend in the kitchen. From the time you wake […]
Recently the American Painting Contractor magazine conducted an interview with the owner of Custom Coatings Inc., located in Hickory, NC. Joe Brindle started CCI twenty-one years ago and has been running it successfully ever since. He and his father took the business from a typical new construction type painting company to a focused painting “think […]
Below are six practical steps we have found to be highly successful. Use the items below to create a plan for your team.Then stick to it for at least six months. If you like, Summit can help. After six months, our experience tells us you will have come a long way and you will want to keep going.
Wow, where do I start? A year ago a painter in Vermont suggested on a painter’s forum that someone should create a site for painters to curate their blogs and share industry information. Always up for a challenge, I went out and bought the domain bloggingpainters and and installed WordPress for the first time. I […]
Dear Contributors and Readers, Blogging Painters is now celebrating its first anniversary. In that short time, the site has become a valuable and essential online resource for the painting industry. We couldn’t have done it without you and we are grateful and appreciative. When we launched BP we hoped it would be a place for […]
If your business was losing money, would you simply conclude that you need to raise prices and do so by some arbitrary amount? Or, would you sit down, analyze your finances, and determine a specific cause for the loss?
As part of our ongoing Open Mike section, Blogging Painters continues to reach out to leaders in the industry. Recently we spoke to Karl Schmitt, VP of Marketing and Research Design at Sherwin Williams.
