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Painting Biz Owners: Chatting with Mike Gore-Hickman, founder of PainterGrowth.com on how he started

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Chatting with Mike Gore-Hickman, founder of PainterGrowth.com on how he started
Uploaded: 2024-01-30T14:00:31+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
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This content was created by balanced-griffin. This content was uploaded by balanced-griffin. This is a YouTube video titled "Painting Biz Owners: Chatting with Mike Gore-Hickman, founder of PainterGrowth.com on how he started" (created 2024-01-30). The excerpt is an interview-style conversation between painting business owners (including Mike Gore-Hickman and another participant), discussing experiences running student painting companies, scaling from one crew to multiple crews, rebuilding systems to handle growth, and revenue milestones (e.g., ~ $200,000/month production and team sizes).

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Ran a student painting company similar to you did. Don't believe student painting companies get enough credit because they are wonderful value add to the painting industry, bringing people like me and you into the painting industry who otherwise would have never been painters. Got my first case of painting at 20. I ran my painting business from 20 to 23. By my third year in painting, we were doing pretty close to $200,000 per month in production. I had about 16 painters, used a couple of subs, had a production manager, great quality, great customer recommendation. Ended up breaking all of the systems that the student painting franchise offered me. I had to like recreate and rebuild all the systems to handle larger business because they weren't really prepared for like, you know, 1 or 2 crews, not 7 crews. I got an introduction in learning systems and then learning how to build systems by the time I was 22.
I didn't do the exact one you did, but I did College Works, which is I think similar. Top performers were doing $100K per year, at least back in 2008 or whenever I did that. That's incredible.