Our company is somewhat new in commercial work and I am a rookie in the trades industry all together. I have made a few GC contacts and have been invited to bid on multiple projects. My question is.... Is there a platform or tool that will allow me to look at projects, and see what are all of...

Hello, My family has been paint contractors for over 65 years. We have relied on door to door tactics and repeat customers over the years. We have painted mostly every type of structure you can imagine from small houses to big industrial sites. In the next few years I will be taking...

Hey All! Hope everyone had a wonderful Holidays! I was hoping to get a bit of input from everyone on whether or not you track your customer call/email leads/inquiries?? I currently just got QB up and running and will be able to pull up all quotes/estimates that were generated. But not all...

A few weeks ago i started this thread. I just read this great study that shows that people that call leads within 1 hour reach people 7x more often than people that wait longer than an hour. Here is the article...

Hello, for the past 5 years I've been working as a subcontractor and now I decided I want to be my own contractor instead. The questions are how do I get the leads, how much do i charge, and do I include all the paint as part of a bid? I paint apartments living. Thanks for your help and...

Hi everyone! Just trying to reach out to all of the painting professionals and let you know *link removed* This is a new site that allows for home and business owners to submit painting jobs to be done and upload specs and pictures of the work site and professional painters can then place actual...

This is the worse summer Iv'e ever had as far as work and jobs coming in. I'm down to one guy and myself, followed up on old customers, I keep a add in the phone book and online along with a website. It's just dead. A lot and I do mean a lot of my old GC went under with the economy in the last...

I am new in running my own business. What is a good/ the best way to go about marketing my company?

Hey everyone, I recently signed up so I am freshly new to the forums. I wan't to get any ones opinions/suggestions about paying for leads. I recently just signed up with Service Magic and I am currently thinking about Local Painter Quotes. The reason being is because the competition where I...