i can help...... i have had several businesses, including my current one which is a several million dollar company...I really don t want to write everything here though.. Find me...
i think you should advertise.your business will then be popular. and then maybe even make it big.Me and my best friend have started our own designing business. We are designing clothes.we spent $1000 dollars on advertising. and so far we have been very successful.we ve made about 11,000 dollars. So the 1000 was nothing now that we ve made it big!!!good luck in the future
go with the yellow pages choose a small ad. then go to a collage andspeak to the economic department.
I don t get you are committed. I would say work for someone else in the industry for awhile.
Invest it. :D
You want to be ready to paint a house before you open and make yourself available. Have an idea of your biggest/smallest job, and know all that you will need--equipment, brushes, drop clothes, whatever. You might not actually buy some of these things until you need them.You can advertise free in Craigslist, sometimes supermarkets have bulletin boards, there are shopping newspapers full of ads that you could advertise in. You can drive around neighborhoods and put flyers in the doors of houses that look like they need painting. Don t spend a lot of money at first, try this and that and see what works for you, then put your money there.Your best advertising, and the cheapest, is word of mouth. Satisfied customers will recommend you. So, especially at first, you want to make an extra effort to make them happy, even if it means spending a little more time than you estimated.Your rates. Well I d guess you ve done this enough that you could look at a house and estimate about what it would cost to have it painted by someone else, some big, established outfit. You can probably do it cheaper, and the lower price is also why the customer chooses you and not them. You might also do it faster. And better. There s an old saying that you can have it fast, cheap, good, pick two. 8^) You want to bust your a** to give your customer all three.By all means have standard pricing--by the foot or by the hour or the brush stroke or however you do it. And have a minimum, you won t touch a job for less than $xx. Then when someone calls you for an estimate you don t have to dither, you tell em just what it is.Good luck!
