Paint Ed Podcast

In the 2nd episode of our 3-part series, we’re going to talk about your vision for your company in the next 10 years. This will help us put some action steps together for what you need to accomplish in 2025 to put you on the right path to hit your 3 year plan in 2027 and ultimately your 10 year (and beyond) vision for your business. Not knowing where you’re going and the plan to get there is the #1 reason entrepreneurs fail in their business. If you aren’t familiar with the book Traction by Gino Wickman, we HIGHLY suggest you get it and read/listen to it and implement everything he shares! While we are not an EOS expert or certified in this content by his team, we couldn’t let that keep us sharing some of the key takeaways from the book and how it can be useful for you in your painting company.   If you’re looking for some added accountability or perspective to help you achieve your 1, 3 and 10 year goals, schedule a free business analysis meeting with us at www.elitebusinessadvisors.com! Find More Episode

In this episode of Rocket Your Business for Trade Contractors, we dive into the power of professional online presence and effective marketing strategies with Alexander Donev of Firemind Studios. Alex, a creative marketing expert with years of experience, has helped contractors and service businesses transform their brands, boost their customer engagement, and drive impressive business growth. Our guest shares his success story of working with a local painting company to increase their online leads from $200,000 in 2019 to over $900,000 in 2020. He explains the importance of building a strong digital presence through modern web design, compelling visual content, and consistent social media engagement. Alex also offers practical tips on leveraging tools like Google reviews, social media, and simple website builders for smaller businesses. Whether you're just starting out or want to refine your marketing efforts, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you build credibility, stand out in a crowde

In this series titled "3rd Generation Painter, 1st Generation Mindset", Joshua Joosten & Cody Roberts of Sequoia Painting will be sharing their story on building a nearly $2m residential and commercial painting company based in Tulare County, CA. They will be detailing the changes that Sequoia Painting has undergone from starting as a post-retirement hobby for Joshua to a profitable and growing enterprise with a very unique approach to the painting industry. In this episode, episode 1, Joshua & Cody will discuss the origins of Sequoia Painting from the perspective of a 3rd generation painter, and the transition that needed to happen to create true business intrinsic value. In episode 2, they will discuss their counterintuitive organizational structure and how it has improved Sequoia Painting. In episode 3, Joshua & Cody will deep dive into the culture of Sequoia Painting and the mission they have to professionalize and elevate the painting industry. In episode 4, they will lay out the systems and processe

Subscribe to 1 Page Weekly w Nick Slavik! My weekly audio newsletter about data, feelings, self and entrepreneurship https://open.spotify.com/show/7ehKiZmIMvpNClL2fLNMzr... Want a LIVE Masters Class in your area? Marketing, Estimating, Recruiting, Financials, Leadership Contact Marsha at the PCA mbass@pcapainted.org  The Retreat - Winter 2025  Private chef. Private Lodge. Private Yoga instructor. Life changing conversations. More info and link to Apply: https://www.facebook.com/share/GXq4om5qkMTEgkGm/ Upcoming events: Link to the PCA's event page: https://www.pcapainted.org/events/ -Gathering of MN Painters / SW / Graco Master's Class - 6 Dec -PCA Expo Feb 3-7 2025 Colorado Springs PCA member companies are 15x larger, more profitable and more stable than the average painting company. How did they do this? PCA's Business Training: https://www.pcapainted.org/business-training/ Painting Contractors Association - PCA Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/ask-a-painter PCA Overd

Do you ever feel stuck when it comes to helping your customers choose colors? Or maybe you're not sure how to market your painting services effectively? In this episode of PaintED, host Torlando Hakes sits down with Sue Wadden, Director of Color Marketing at Sherwin-Williams, to discuss the power of color in the painting industry. Here's what you'll learn: Why color is such a powerful tool for transforming spaces and personalizing homes How to overcome the challenges of color selection and close more sales The importance of incorporating color marketing into your business strategy How to leverage Sherwin-Williams' Pro Color Toolkit to inspire your customers and grow your business Tune in to discover how to unlock the potential of color and take your painting business to the next level! Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/painted-show PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Beco

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/women-in-paint PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/

Connect time tracking to your job costing with this free white paper from busybusy: https://trybta.com/DLEP188 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCA188 Have you ever wondered whether getting your field staff to track their time is worthwhile? Sure, it’d be great to hold them accountable. But you can already hear their grumbles and groans about having to add another thing to their to-do list. The thing is, in other businesses (think accounting, law, marketing agencies), time tracking is standard practice. The whole goal in those industries is to make as much time billable to the client as possible. So why is it different in the trades? Our guest on the show today is Isaac Barlow. He’s the Founder of busybusy. The industry-leading time-tracking app for construction and trades. Today’s conversation is about leveraging time-tracking technology to increase productivity and profitability without hurting your company culture. Episode highlights: Learn how time trackin

In the final episode of our 3-part series, we’re covering the People and Processes portion of your business plan. While many times people will associate the word Profit here for the 3 P’s of business, it’s the people and processes that drive the profit in any successful business! Tune in to understand how to make sure you have the right people in the right seats in your company as well as the key systems and processes to maximize your profit. If you aren’t familiar with the book Traction by Gino Wickman, we HIGHLY suggest you get it and read/listen to it and implement everything he shares! While we are not an EOS expert or certified in this content by his team, we couldn’t let that keep us sharing some of the key takeaways from the book and how it can be useful for you in your painting company.   If you need help identifying if you have the right people in your company or the processes to drive profitability, schedule a free business analysis meeting with us at www.elitebusinessadvisors.com! Find More Epis

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/painter-marketing-mastermind PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ In this episode, Nick Lopez, President of the Lime Painting franchise, discusses the growth of a luxury niche paint brand. He elaborates on the differentiation of the Lime Painting franchise, and how other painting companies can pursue their own avenues of creating unique value propositions in the market.

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/ask-a-painter PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ Subscribe to 1 Page Weekly w Nick Slavik! My weekly audio newsletter about data, feelings, self and entrepreneurship https://open.spotify.com/show/7ehKiZmIMvpNClL2fLNMzr...  The Retreat - Winter 2025  Dates and applications announced next week! Link to the PCA's event page: https://www.pcapainted.org/events/ Upcoming events: -PCA Commercial Contractor's Retreat 12-15 Nov Scottsdale, Az -Gathering of MN Painters / SW / Graco Master's Class - 6 Dec -PCA Expo Feb 3-7 2025 Colorado Springs Want a LIVE Masters Class in your area? Contact Marsha at the PCA mbass@pcapainted.org and we can arrange it for you! PCA member companies are 15x larger, more profitable and more stable than the average painting company. How did they do this? PCA's Bu

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/women-in-paint PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/contractor-evolution PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ Grab a free copy of the Four Numbers Exercise to help you 10x your wealth attraction: https://trybta.com/DLEP184 To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCA184 Learn more about Brian here: https://www.thewealthycontractor.com/ Running a highly profitable contracting business has two sides of the coin. You need the profitability skill sets: budgeting, job costing, pricing strategies, accounting best practices, and so on. We’ve discussed these plenty on the show. The other thing you need is the “profitability mindset.” This has very little to do with spreadsheets and bookkeeping and everything to do with your attitude towards money, your belief and self-worth, and your ability to practice

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/elite-business-advice PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ If you think of great leaders in sports, a lot of them come from the college level, not necessarily professional. Why? Because College’s have to replenish their talent every 4 years and build a winning culture that carries them to a dynasty! The feat is even more impressive at the college level In today’s episode, we’re going to dive into what’s made Clemson the powerhouse they are, and how Dabo Swinney has played a pivotal role in this transformation over the past 16 years and what you can learn from this to apply in your business as a championship leader. Whether or not you’re a big football or sports fan, we think these practical analogies will hit home and help you understand what it takes to build a winning championship c

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/ask-a-painter PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ Connect w Benji: https://www.btacademy.com/community/bta-team/benji-carlson/ Subscribe to 1 Page Weekly w Nick Slavik! My weekly audio newsletter about data, feelings, self and entrepreneurship https://open.spotify.com/show/7ehKiZmIMvpNClL2fLNMzr... ❄️ The Retreat - Winter 2025 ❄️ More info and link to Apply: https://www.facebook.com/share/GXq4om5qkMTEgkGm/ Link to the PCA's event page: https://www.pcapainted.org/events/ Upcoming events: -PCA Commercial Contractor's Retreat 12-15 Nov Scottsdale, Az -Gathering of MN Painters / SW / Graco Master's Class - 6 Dec -PCA Expo Feb 3-7 2025 Colorado Springs Want a LIVE Masters Class in your area? Contact Marsha at the PCA mbass@pcapainted.org and we can arrange it for you! PCA member compan

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/painted-show PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ *Rest of Description

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/contractor-evolution PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCA185 How did Plus Construction owner and Breakthrough Academy Member Charlie Bethell go from endless callbacks, cash crunches and frustration to selling and building 500 decks a year? Systemizing and optimizing. And a lot of it. Today, Charlie’s on the show to talk about his digital marketing strategies, which bring in 60% of the businesses annual leads, and the massive changes he made to his sales-to-production handoff. In other words, we’re diving into the secrets of a high-volume contractor. Episode highlights: Learn the strategies and tactics Charlie Bethell uses to get 60% of his leads from digital marketing initiatives. Find out which implemen

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/elite-business-advice PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ What in the heck is SEO? How should we navigate ad spend for digital marketing? What are the things we can do to help us organically in the google rankings? Are these questions you’ve ever had? If so, we’ve got the perfect episode lined up for you!   Today we’ve got a friend of ours, Micha McLain with Search Click Grow to talk through these common questions we get and see a lot in the industry. If you’re friends with a handful of people in the PCA community, you’ve probably seen one of their websites whether you knew it or not! To schedule a call with Micha and his team visit www.searchclickgrow.com/call Have a list of things you’re prepared to work on this Winter in your business? Schedule a free business analysis meeting w

In this episode, Joshua Joosten, owner of Sequoia Painting, Fred Hamilton Emery, owner of Hamilton Painting, and Cole Palea, owner of Novo Painting, discuss the upcoming PCA Residential Painting Conference. They will lay out what's included, the value you're likely to receive if you plan to attend, and their experience with other PCA Events like PCA Residential Painting. Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/painter-marketing-mastermind PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/

Apply for a free registration to the Residential Conference in Minnesota! https://forms.gle/hy49Qkvno7aD3ppP6 Subscribe to 1 Page Weekly w Nick Slavik! My weekly audio newsletter about data, feelings, self and entrepreneurship https://open.spotify.com/show/7ehKiZmIMvpNClL2fLNMzr... ❄️ The Retreat w Nick Slavik - Winter 2025 ❄️ Dates and applications announced shortly! Link to the PCA's event page: https://www.pcapainted.org/events/ Upcoming events: -PCA Residential Conference 24-25 Oct Minneapolis Mn -PCA Commercial Contractor's Retreat 12-15 Nov Scottsdale, Az -Gathering of MN Painters / SW / Graco Master's Class - 6 Dec -PCA Expo Feb 3-7 2025 Colorado Springs Want a LIVE Masters Class in your area? Contact Marsha at the PCA mbass@pcapainted.org and we can arrange it for you! PCA member companies are 15x larger, more profitable and more stable than the average painting company. How did they do this? PCA's Business Training: https://www.pcapainted.org/business-training/ Find More Episodes on PCA Ove

In this episode, Maggie Kuyper, owner of Harpeth Painting, and Chris Elliott, owner of OnIT Painting, discuss the upcoming PCA Commercial Painting Conference. They will lay out what's included, the value you're likely to receive if you plan to attend, and their experience with other PCA Events like PCA Commercial Painting. Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/painter-marketing-mastermind PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/