Did you ever make these mistakes?
My first painting job wasn't the greatest. It was an exterior job.
I made these mistakes:
1.) I didn't have a pair of rubber ladder mits for my extention ladder. I scratched the customer's white aluminum siding on the front of his garage with my beat up aluminum ladder.
And then I tried to touch up his siding with flat white house paint, which didn't match. And to top it off, when he got home I pointed my small "accident" out to him as if it was O.K. (The house paint was supposed to go on his wood trim only.)
2.) I used cheap paint and the wrong sheen level for the job.
3.) I only applied one coat.
4.) I did very little prep work.
5.) The home owner also had me paint his deck. I showed him a small stain chart and he said choose any color except for the "Terracotta".
Well guess what, I painted his deck with the terracotta. Why? because I was stupid and besides, I liked the color. I used to do stuff like that. It was left over from my employee days I guess.
6.) He forgot that he had already paid me and paid me again. (Boy, that doesn't happen very often) I was new and I thought it was my tip. I thought man, this business is great!
He called me at home after he realized his mistake and I brought him back his cash. $450. I laid it out on the table like Gin Rummy. He scooped up all but a couple of twenties. So I did get a tip.
I saw his wife at the store months later and she acted like she didn't want to know me. After all this I still made it in my painting business. A couple of my next jobs weren't that swift either come to think of it. But I had to learn.
I write this not to scare you, but to tell you that If I can make it in my own business, so can you. I'm pretty much average in all I do anyways.
Today I do quality work. My customers have bragged on it for most of my career. But I did go through a learning curve. I can help you kick the learning curve get off to a much faster start than I did.
http://painting-business.com/
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NO ONE CAN BE PERFECT
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No job can be completely perfect. That animal just doesn't exist. But your work can still be top-notch. I once told a customer how no matter how hard I try, there is always a blem somewhere in my work (not that customers ever notice, but I do).
Now he grew up a Christian missionary's kid in South Africa. He said that the muslims there weaved beautiful afghan blankets on their weaving machines.
He said they would put an intentional error in the blankets because "only God is perfect". After that, I never tried to do the "perfect" job anymore, just a good job.
Start A Painting Business
Make $875/wk. Get all the
Customers you want for Free.
http://painting-business.com/
I made these mistakes:
1.) I didn't have a pair of rubber ladder mits for my extention ladder. I scratched the customer's white aluminum siding on the front of his garage with my beat up aluminum ladder.
And then I tried to touch up his siding with flat white house paint, which didn't match. And to top it off, when he got home I pointed my small "accident" out to him as if it was O.K. (The house paint was supposed to go on his wood trim only.)
2.) I used cheap paint and the wrong sheen level for the job.
3.) I only applied one coat.
4.) I did very little prep work.
5.) The home owner also had me paint his deck. I showed him a small stain chart and he said choose any color except for the "Terracotta".
Well guess what, I painted his deck with the terracotta. Why? because I was stupid and besides, I liked the color. I used to do stuff like that. It was left over from my employee days I guess.
6.) He forgot that he had already paid me and paid me again. (Boy, that doesn't happen very often) I was new and I thought it was my tip. I thought man, this business is great!
He called me at home after he realized his mistake and I brought him back his cash. $450. I laid it out on the table like Gin Rummy. He scooped up all but a couple of twenties. So I did get a tip.
I saw his wife at the store months later and she acted like she didn't want to know me. After all this I still made it in my painting business. A couple of my next jobs weren't that swift either come to think of it. But I had to learn.
I write this not to scare you, but to tell you that If I can make it in my own business, so can you. I'm pretty much average in all I do anyways.
Today I do quality work. My customers have bragged on it for most of my career. But I did go through a learning curve. I can help you kick the learning curve get off to a much faster start than I did.
http://painting-business.com/
=======================
NO ONE CAN BE PERFECT
=======================
No job can be completely perfect. That animal just doesn't exist. But your work can still be top-notch. I once told a customer how no matter how hard I try, there is always a blem somewhere in my work (not that customers ever notice, but I do).
Now he grew up a Christian missionary's kid in South Africa. He said that the muslims there weaved beautiful afghan blankets on their weaving machines.
He said they would put an intentional error in the blankets because "only God is perfect". After that, I never tried to do the "perfect" job anymore, just a good job.
Start A Painting Business
Make $875/wk. Get all the
Customers you want for Free.
http://painting-business.com/
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