Watching Paint Dry

Watching Paint Dry

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Watching Paint Dry episodes

  • How to Make Your Company More Creative and Productive Using New Innovations in Paint and Wallcoverings

    Greg Owens is the owner of McCarthy Painting, a company that serves commercial and residential clients all around the San Francisco Bay Area, providing stellar painting services beyond the first coat. McCarthy Painting has been around since 1969 and uses environmentally-friendly paint while working with their clients to improve their workplace and home.

    McCarthy Painting has worked with some amazing companies as well such as Google, Autodesk, Abercrombie and Fitch, FICO, First Bank, SPIN, and many more.

    In this episode…

    What does your office walls say about your company? What spark of inspiration or motivation can the walls provide when brainstorming through a problem? Did you even know that it's now possible to install a magnetic wall into your office that can help idea sharing in your company or that a dry erase board can help increase productivity? Greg Owens, owner of McCarthy Painting, has helped companies to create spaces that lead to improved collaborations and more dynamic interactions in workspaces.

    In this week's episode of Watching Paint Dry, host Greg Owens gets interviews by John Corcoran of Rise25 Media about how the innovation of paints can reinvent your workspace. Tune in as Greg touches on how the use of interactive walls fosters peace of mind and productivity even in open office concepts, the different ways that paint can be utilized to improve team collaboration, and how the colors of your walls can become a paradigm shift on company culture.

    13 min
  • Top Concerns for Building Owners and Facilities Managers in Beautifying and Maintaining Facilities

    Greg Owens is the owner of McCarthy Painting, a company that serves commercial and residential clients all around the San Francisco Bay Area, providing stellar painting services beyond the first coat. McCarthy Painting has been around since 1969 and uses environmentally-friendly paint while working with their clients to improve their workplace and home.

    McCarthy Painting has worked with some amazing companies as well such as Google, Autodesk, Abercrombie and Fitch, FICO, First Bank, SPIN, and many more.

    In this episode…

    Commercial and residential painting projects can get tricky when you only add a new coat of paint and call it a day. With most repainting, you have to go beyond the first layer and check whether the wood or drywall is still able to support the new coat or if it has started to root due to mildew or the structure's age. Greg Owens, owner of McCarthy Painting, seeks to provide his clients with an experience that aligns with their desire for clean walls, convenient planning, and a relationship with painters built on trust.

    In this week's episode, Greg Owens gets interviewed by John Corcoran of Rise25 in his own show about the history of McCarthy Painting and the purpose of pre-planning with clients and traders who hire them to work on a project. Greg also talks about the necessity of building a coherent team, working with clients and their schedules and budget, and how to best ensure smooth logistics and coordination when working on a painting project. Stay tuned.

    16 min
  • From 16-Year-Old Dropout to Thriving Entrepreneur

    Greg Owens is the owner of McCarthy Painting, a company that serves commercial and residential clients all around the San Francisco Bay Area, providing stellar painting services beyond the first coat. McCarthy Painting has been around since 1969 and uses environmentally-friendly paint while working with their clients to improve their workplace and home. Greg has developed McCarthy Painting into a seven-figure business while juggling many hats to create a work-friendly environment.

    McCarthy Painting has worked with some amazing companies as well such as Google, Autodesk, Abercrombie and Fitch, FICO, First Bank, SPIN, and many more.

    In this episode…

    An entrepreneurial spirit blossoms when a need arises and an opportunity to dive into your own business presents itself. The desire to change the process towards a more efficient method of handling clients and helping others move forward with the world around them can be truly encouraging and for Greg Owens, Owner of McCarthy Painting, the chance to become an entrepreneur presented itself through his uncle. He was able to grow his uncle's business from a small company to a seven-figure company through streamlining the process from minding the books to marketing and estimation.

    In this week's episode of the Watching Paint Dry podcast, Greg Owens gets interviewed in his own show by John Corcoran of Rise25 Media about his entrepreneurial journey. Greg opens up about his desire to learn how to run and streamline a company and how he was able to make this desire come to life, the common mistakes and obstacles involved with running your own company, the things you learn in the process, and why you need to focus on the things you can control in your business. Stay tuned.

    48 min

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The Watching Paint Dry podcast features today's top facility managers, property managers, and property owners where they talk about the challenges and opportunities of managing hundreds of thousands…