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Starting a Painting Business

Are you interested starting your own painting business? This article gives you the basic must knows about the painting business.

To make it in the house painting business, you need to have a broad client base.

This is the most significant part of the success equation. It doesn’t matter if you and your crew are the least sloppy and most effective house painters for miles on end. If your target market hasn’t heard about you, then you’re in for a whole lot of trouble.

You need to put your business out there. Typically, this industry is composed of small-scale businesses that operate from the home. Each vies for clients within their vicinity and whoever is the most known usually gets the lion’s share of the market. To keep up with the competition, you must therefore exert effort in finding ways to promote your business.

Let us discuss the types of customers for a moment. This is necessary since you need to gear your advertisements toward your target customers.

It is said that working for real estate and home rental agencies is the surest way to guarantee a slew of projects. What’s nice about this is that these clients are, most often than not, laid-back and lenient. Realtors are not particular with the details. You don’t have to worry about matching colors, paint quality, fickle minds, and so on. All they want is to have the job done the quickest way possible.

In a nutshell, clients that fall in this category are no-nonsense and are the easiest to deal with. If you are just starting out, this is the best client group for you. The only drawback is that when they need your services, you only get a moment’s notice. Usually, they call on you when they receive complaints from tenants warranting a new coat of paint or when they have a recently vacated space on their hands that they want to open for viewing.

To garner jobs from real estate companies, you need to make a business proposal indicating the type of services you offer, how much you charge, and your payment terms. Leave your business proposal together with your contact information at their office and wait for their call.

On the other end, individual/residential projects are generally quite smaller but the pay you get here is much bigger. The downside is, this group is more specific in its requirements. Though smaller, the time required to accomplish private jobs is much longer and you need to put in more effort. You need to have more patience here. Expect to do over your work at least once for private clients are usually indecisive when it comes to choosing paint color.

Additional Tips

Before making a bid or accepting a project, do make sure that you have adequately inspected the space that you need to paint. Don’t use the size of the space as your sole basis. You must also examine the surface you need to paint. Some surfaces require more coatings and consequently increase your materials cost.

You don’t have to buy the most expensive brand of paint to get the best quality. There are cheaper alternatives that offer the same if not better paint quality. You should make it your business to find out about these things. This of course will translate to extra profit for you.

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1 Comment

  • Mr. P. Parmar said on February 2, 2013
    I like painting but I don't know much, how to start painting business. I would like you to send me some information please.

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