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3 Things You Should Know about Lead Generation Services
Nobody really likes to sell. If you’re like most people, you’d rather just get down to the business of painting your client’s house. There’s nothing less pleasurable than digging up leads. In an ideal...
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Are Free Estimates Really Free !?!
We give them away everyday! It’s a daily occurrence all over this grand landscape of contracting. We run out and give away our time and experience for free hoping we will get a certain portion of the...
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Do more with your Estimating Software
When I go to PDCA conventions, I often run into friends and fellow painters that know me as an estimating buff. They know that I’m both the owner of an estimating software company and also a paint...
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CORK-Customer Relationship Management
How do you pull it all together? Keeping track of customers, proposals, contracts, employees, payroll, appointments, is hard if you don’t have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system in place....
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How do I know what to charge?
My estimating was guesstimating at best. When I first started my business I had no idea what to charge my clients for the work I was doing. I knew how to charge by the hour, but I wasn’t always sure...
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5 challenges with time sheets, and what you can do about it…
It seems apparent these days that using paper time sheets can be time-consuming and expensive for you and your business. My name is Neville Solomon, and after personally interviewing over 50 painting...
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Submitting a Professional Estimate
PEP announces the eBid! How does it work? You put together a company profile to highlight your latest projects, your history, your values – a professional estimate is what sets you apart from the...
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PaintScope- A new way to estimate accurately
Eyeball vs Measure Which do you usually do for an estimate on an exterior repaint? Do you measure or break out the different substrates? Recently one of our readers had an opportunity to use a new...
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What can an Estimating Program do for You?
“How much should I charge?” One of the most divisive topics in any contractors group is pricing. Ask that question, and watch the fireworks begin. May as well ask “How much is a bag of groceries?”...
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Tracking Production Rates
Field budgets Your field budget is generated from your bid. The total amount of time and materials that you have bid for each phase of the project makes up your field budget. This tells your...
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The Bidding Process
Putting it all together The first step to any bid is of course to gather the quantities, whether you are measuring an existing structure or doing a takeoff from a set of plans. From there you must...
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Understanding Project Manuals
Project Manuals are the other tool that is provided, along with blueprints, to enable us to assemble an accurate bid. Whether you are bidding to general contractors or directly to the owner of a...
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Field Pulse
Here at Blogging Painters, we often are contacted by inventors, software developers and industry representatives. They are very interested in the feedback from our readers on products and ideas....
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PEP’s New Features Focus on Process and Productivity
The folks at PEP Cloud have been busy adding new features to the program to streamline the estimating process. It’s easier than ever to build detailed estimates, follow up with clients, and track jobs...
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10 Tips for Winning the Sales Appointment
I want to start by saying that the actual Sales Process begins well before you meet the customer in-person for the estimate. The marketing messages you use; the way you answer the phone and the methods...
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Field Pulse
Here at Blogging Painters, we often are contacted by inventors, software developers and industry representatives. They are very interested in the feedback from our readers on products and ideas....
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PEP’s New Features Focus on Process and Productivity
The folks at PEP Cloud have been busy adding new features to the program to streamline the estimating process. It’s easier than ever to build detailed estimates, follow up with clients, and track jobs...
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10 Tips for Winning the Sales Appointment
I want to start by saying that the actual Sales Process begins well before you meet the customer in-person for the estimate. The marketing messages you use; the way you answer the phone and the methods...
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The Price
No single factor creates as much havoc for industry companies as how to set the price. The first complication is how to arrive at the best possible price; afterward the issue becomes how to sell it...
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Operational Planning – Part 1
Most of us would like to expand and improve our Commercial painting operations, including Marketing, Estimating, Sales and Production. I would encourage anyone to set both short and long-term goals....
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