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I am thinking of making me a web page for my painting company.
I am new to this for the most part, I had my own company back in 1998-1999 (some2000), most of my jobs was relitaves, friends, 6-8 reguler cutomers.
It got to be too slow as newspaper adds were tire kickers looking to have the job done for minimum wage, yellow page add generated 1 call every 1-2 months, and that was mostly insurance claims.
I took up a job and worked for the other guy, a large company who mostly does GC work... the 4 owners would NOT allow me to do side jobs while working for them (sometimes I can't blame them), so I could not nurse my business up... I did take the first summer off and finnished some work I promised to some clients, who wanted more rooms done and called me back telling me who this other painter they hired had paint peeling from the wall , and slopped up the jobs, with my house I just bought, and my job, I did not have time...
In the almost 8 years I worked for them I learned quite bit bit
99% of my work was sanding, staining, sweeping, taping.. doing mostly high end new homes and high end remodel.
in 2006 after I slipped off a ladder with a wrung missing on it, while we was bleaching a house, I messed my my felt shoulder some, in early 2007 I developed a Hernia and doc found I had two small hernias (probablty from my younger more crazy heavy athletic days, that is now haunting me some) ...I scheduled to get myself fixed in Aug 2007, and I think they had enough and let me go a month before.
It is business and I can understand not wanting to take chances with a cripple.... not bad feeling on that part.
I did get fixed and after 2 months I am healed, and back in shape
I am ready to get back into it.... I have a Binks pot HVLP unit and a goo dGraco Gun, but I want a Good Airless unit as I always had to thin/water down my paints to get results with high gloss oils and latex. still have all my tarps and other stuff..
My only problem is getting leads,,,, I also tried calling home owners back 9 years ago, and around here people HATE Telemarkers with a HOT HORRIBLE PASSION
I plan to go direct mail sometime, but wanted to know if anyone has any luck with a webpage and if so, how much per month do you get from them...
I am looking around to find some free wep page tools and graphics editors on the net.. I made my own web pages back in the early 90's (a hobby page on uboats), but thigs are differnt, please can anyone direct me to some web and graphics tools.
sorry for the typos and long wind... kind of excited to be back...
I know I can make it work IF I can just get the word out enough.
Scott
I am new to this for the most part, I had my own company back in 1998-1999 (some2000), most of my jobs was relitaves, friends, 6-8 reguler cutomers.
It got to be too slow as newspaper adds were tire kickers looking to have the job done for minimum wage, yellow page add generated 1 call every 1-2 months, and that was mostly insurance claims.
I took up a job and worked for the other guy, a large company who mostly does GC work... the 4 owners would NOT allow me to do side jobs while working for them (sometimes I can't blame them), so I could not nurse my business up... I did take the first summer off and finnished some work I promised to some clients, who wanted more rooms done and called me back telling me who this other painter they hired had paint peeling from the wall , and slopped up the jobs, with my house I just bought, and my job, I did not have time...
In the almost 8 years I worked for them I learned quite bit bit
99% of my work was sanding, staining, sweeping, taping.. doing mostly high end new homes and high end remodel.
in 2006 after I slipped off a ladder with a wrung missing on it, while we was bleaching a house, I messed my my felt shoulder some, in early 2007 I developed a Hernia and doc found I had two small hernias (probablty from my younger more crazy heavy athletic days, that is now haunting me some) ...I scheduled to get myself fixed in Aug 2007, and I think they had enough and let me go a month before.
It is business and I can understand not wanting to take chances with a cripple.... not bad feeling on that part.
I did get fixed and after 2 months I am healed, and back in shape
I am ready to get back into it.... I have a Binks pot HVLP unit and a goo dGraco Gun, but I want a Good Airless unit as I always had to thin/water down my paints to get results with high gloss oils and latex. still have all my tarps and other stuff..
My only problem is getting leads,,,, I also tried calling home owners back 9 years ago, and around here people HATE Telemarkers with a HOT HORRIBLE PASSION
I plan to go direct mail sometime, but wanted to know if anyone has any luck with a webpage and if so, how much per month do you get from them...
I am looking around to find some free wep page tools and graphics editors on the net.. I made my own web pages back in the early 90's (a hobby page on uboats), but thigs are differnt, please can anyone direct me to some web and graphics tools.
sorry for the typos and long wind... kind of excited to be back...
I know I can make it work IF I can just get the word out enough.
Scott