Color Week Roundup
What are the options for Painting Contractors when it comes to choosing, or help customers to choose paint colors?
Chris Haught
Chris Haught is the editor of Blogging Painters, the leading resource for paint contractors. Chris also works with contractors to improve their website and social media presence. When not blogging about the painting industry, she works in the educational sector as a media and technology mentor.
Color Experts, Consultants, Designers or DIYers?
How do you choose color? I admit, I am a DIYer when it comes to color selection, I use the Fan Decks, Brochures and Color Samples to help customers pick colors, and it usually turns out ok, but just ok. A few things happened in the past year that made me realize I really should […]
To Tweet or Not?
Still on the fence about Twitter? Check out these helpful tips from my latest article on page 8 in the The Paint Contractor. Feel free to head over to the magazine’s Facebook page and like their page! Follow us @bloggingpainter!
Propeller-Using Technology to manage your business
While at the PDCA Trade Show I saw several new products, one booth was giving away little wooden propellers, which caught my husband’s eye and while he was having fun twirling, I talked to the rep. It looked interesting , so I asked him to send me some more info and Adam was very responsive, […]
PDCA Expo Goodies
There was lots of schwag!!
PDCA Expo Social
The Benjamin Moore Vintage Party and the Sherwin Williams party at the Harley Davidson provided great opportunities to socialize. The breakfast and lunch sessions held by the PDCA were all top notch affairs as well. Check out my Google + page for more!
PDCA Expo Trade Show
There was a great variety of tools and product demonstrations. Tommy will be reporting on them in upcoming posts.
PDCA Educational
The Educational Seminars were very well attended and there was a variety of great business topics discussed.
kovrd
One of the products that intrigued Tommy, he will be reviewing it soon! You can find kovrd here.
Festool
I think Festool was one of the most interactive booths at the expo! Every time I passed it, there where guys sanding, drilling and extracting! Our own Scott Burt was in the booth sharing the advantages of using dustless technology, and as you can tell by Heidi Nyline’s post, painters love Festool!
People of Interest from the PDCA Expo 2012
This was my first experience with the PDCA, although I knew that many of my online painting contractor friends were members, and spoke highly of their local chapters, but I had never joined. Mostly because there was no active local chapter, so I figured, “why bother”. Big Mistake! During the Expo I attended several educational […]
It’s not who You know, but who you meet
Wow, what a day! Started Monday at 7 am with a breakfast hosted by PDCA, where I met Painting Contractors from Canada, Missouri, Montana and Colorado. The day was off to a great start and I was looking forward to more and was not disappointed! My first class was with Burt Olhiser of Vantage Point. […]
Ready to Network?
The PDCA has done a great job bringing the members of the paint industry together, don’t waste a minute of this great opportunity to network! The team at the Blogging Painters would love to hear your thoughts on business practices, products and tools. Look for the Blogging Painters hats and ask Tommy, Heidi or Scott […]
Blogging Painters in Las Vegas!
Next week is the PDCA Expo in Las Vegas, will you be there? The Blogging Painters Team will be there in full force! Heidi Nyline will be talking SEO with Todd Heskett, Scott Burt will be showing painters how to use Festool, Tommy Johnson will be checking out the latest products to review and I […]
How do you track your leads?
A painter who has mad computer skills?! One of the great thinks about having a variety of online friends is learning what other skills they have. Fellow Painting Contractor Patrick Miller has long been a contributor to a popular forum I frequent. He recently share an app he created with the members and I asked […]