Industry

Painters

Interior and exterior painting contractors.

Painters
Overview

Painting is sold on trust and on photos. Homeowners are letting strangers into the house for a week, and they decide who to call based on what the last twenty jobs looked like.

What gets in the way
  • Everyone with a van and a ladder is a competitor
  • Interior and exterior are different seasons and different sells
  • Estimates take real time and most of them do not close
  • Commercial work needs a completely different pitch
  • Good work never gets photographed
What we do about it

Let the work speak

Galleries organized by job type, with the before shot next to the after, and enough of them that you look established.

Separate interior, exterior, and commercial

Three audiences that should not be sharing a page.

Follow up on the estimate

Automated sequences across the weeks a homeowner takes to decide, so the quote does not just go quiet.

Questions we get asked

The things that come up on almost every first call in this trade, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.

Everyone with a van and a ladder is a competitor. What separates me online?

The volume and the organization of your finished work. Twenty jobs photographed and sorted by type reads as an established company. Four stock photos reads as somebody who started last month, whether or not that is true.

Interior and exterior are different seasons. Should they be different pages?

Yes, and commercial should be a third. They are searched differently, the buyers are different, and a page trying to cover all three converts none of them well.

Most of my estimates never close. Can the website help with that?

It can qualify better before you drive out, and automation can follow up properly after. Both move the number. Neither one turns a tire kicker into a customer, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

I never photograph my work. How much does that cost me?

A lot, and it is the one thing we cannot do for you. Same angle before and after, decent light, one minute per job. That habit is worth more to your marketing than anything we could buy on your behalf.

Should I show prices?

A per room or per square foot range, yes. Painting quotes vary enormously depending on prep and condition, and a range stops you being compared against a number that was never comparable in the first place.

How long until this pays for itself?

That depends on your average job value and how competitive your area is, so we would rather work it out with your actual numbers on the first call than quote you a month that sounds good and means nothing.

Where can I read the full painter playbook?

We wrote a full page on painter SEO and marketing: what moves the needle in this trade, what a painting company website needs, and what it costs.

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