PaintED Podcast

Every year in May painting business owners have a chance to join Sherwin Williams paint stores in making a difference in the community and beautifying the world with great products. Do your customers see you at work in volunteer service that inspires their confidence and trust in your company? Jeff Winter, Vice President of Marketing at Sherwin Williams, joins us to talk about how contractors can get involved with Sherwin Williams' National Painting Week on May 19-29. Show the community that you're invested!

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If you know how to speak the right words, an enormous chain reaction of ideas can be triggered across a large network of brains to bring you a lot of business. Do you know the blueprint for those words? Art 'Mind Whisperer' Snarzyk with InnerView Advisors is back again, this time helping you spread the word about your business through referrals. Want to learn how to hijack other people's brains--in a good way--to tell their friends and their friends' friends about your services? Find out in this fun episode of Paint ED.

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Who’s crazy and fit enough to swim to Alcatraz and back, and what does that have to do with running a painting business? Our guest, Dan Brady of Dan Brady Painting and Wood Restoration in Traverse City, Michigan, talks with us about his intimidating bucket list, and what he has learned about community service, marketing, and health. You may not be able to swim to Mackinac Island, but your out-of-the-box idea may bring it’s own residual business!

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Industry Award winner in the category of Residential Restoration Exterior and host of the weekly Ask-A-Painter show on Facebook, Nick Slavik, brings you tips on painting the perfect kitchen. After delivering a riveting Master's Class at the 2017 PDCA Expo in San Diego on the subject of The Perfect Kitchen, we had to ask him to give away some nuggets from his presentation on Paint ED. You'll never look at people who look at caulk the same way...

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Do you know how to calculate production rates without drowning in the numbers? Fred Yarur of PEP--Painters Estimating Program--returns to talk about Part 2 of his estimating series: estimating production rates. Fred knows that creating and using estimating production rates that are customized to each contractor and their sale's process is much more like going on a journey than suddenly stumbling onto prefabricated and perfectly jigsaw-cut solutions. Using the science of estimating takes persistence and courage, but--like a ticket to Wally World-- it is well worth the price of admission!

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Brad's Techies is back with a look at painting estimating software for Estimating Month at PDCA. Brad Bolinger is the creator of the SwatchDeck App and is the project manager at PaintZen, and he has explored different estimating softwares that span business size and industry segment. He shares insight into selection process and application estimating technology.

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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. And yet we all get busy, run down too many rabbit trails, and are blinded by shiny objects. Similarly, estimating fundamentals for painting contractors often get lost in the shuffle, or get silently outmoded by new estimating methods and tools that change the landscape of all that was once familiar. Fred will get us back on track! Fred Yarur is the owner of Painters' Estimating Program and he wants to help painting contractors get back to the basics and freshen their knowledge of estimating with new tools of the trade. Join us for our PDCA webinars with Fred on March 8 and 15 when Fred will dive even deeper into estimating by-and-beyond the numbers!

Learn more about PDCA webinars at www.pdca.org/webinars

Learn more about PEP at www.paintestimating.com

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Business success can be defined in as many ways as there are types of business owners in the world. Is financial stability and career satisfaction success? What about forward movement and expansion? The PDCA Throw-Down Debate at next week’s PDCA Expo in San Diego will feature two opposing teams who will tackle this topic head-on. Stable Business Bliss will slug it out against Big Business Blitz! Can there be only ONE? In this Paint ED episode a few of the debate team members talk about what you can expect…and the moderator isn’t pulling any punches! Thank you to Nick Slavik, Dave Scaturro, Torlando Hakes, Andrew Dwyer, and Steve Skodak for ensuring no chairs or ladders were thrown during the recording of this show.

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Learn more or register at www.pdca.org/expo

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Brad Bolinger of Brad's Techies helps painting contractors learn how using Smartsheet and Dapulse can streamline project management. Brad's Techies is a monthly webinar produced by PDCA which highlights new technology for painting businesses, and demonstrates how to use software and apps to grow your business.

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On this episode of Paint Ed we speak with Tom Droste, a business process expert at Estimate Rocket, about how painting businesses can use apps and software to get away from doing everything manual. Automation saves time and money, and just this once it may be good to listen when people say, "Everyone is doing it!"

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