Comments on: Faux Painting Business Estimates http://fauxpaintingforprofit.com/faux-painting-business-estimates/ It's Your Business Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:04:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: How Paint http://fauxpaintingforprofit.com/faux-painting-business-estimates/#comment-74 How Paint Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:12:36 +0000 http://fauxpaintingforprofit.com/faux-painting-business-estimates/#comment-74 I helped take a pavingstone company, Pacific Pavingstone from a small operation to a 200 employee INC 500 business, I know about about the home improvement business. Some pointers. 1) get a BBB membership and have fantastic customer service. We used the fact that we had a AAA rating in our presenttion (along with our main competitors BBB reports that ranged from D to BB, sold the job off that alone 85% of the time 2) Use a website, but go local as if someone wants a fuax painting in New York and you live in Hollywood that is not going to help you. We spent money for google adwords (as you can focus it to only get clicks from certain cities) Just using that we increased our internet sales to 2.5 million a year! 3. Educate your client, this will always help versus pressuring your client, dont force the sale, get them interested in it. You can use all kinds of tools to get them interested, show profiles of your work, get them talking about what they want, give them a suggestion here and there, ask for their input, show them different styles of paint or themes I helped take a pavingstone company, Pacific Pavingstone from a small operation to a 200 employee INC 500 business, I know about about the home improvement business.

Some pointers.

1) get a BBB membership and have fantastic customer service. We used the fact that we had a AAA rating in our presenttion (along with our main competitors BBB reports that ranged from D to BB, sold the job off that alone 85% of the time

2) Use a website, but go local as if someone wants a fuax painting in New York and you live in Hollywood that is not going to help you. We spent money for google adwords (as you can focus it to only get clicks from certain cities) Just using that we increased our internet sales to 2.5 million a year!

3. Educate your client, this will always help versus pressuring your client, dont force the sale, get them interested in it. You can use all kinds of tools to get them interested, show profiles of your work, get them talking about what they want, give them a suggestion here and there, ask for their input, show them different styles of paint or themes

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