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Painting Biz Owners: Learn how to update processes in your biz-let’s talk with Mike of PainterGrowth

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Learn how to update processes in your biz-let’s talk with Mike of PainterGrowth
Uploaded: 2024-02-29T14:15:02+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this segment of a conversation aimed at painting‑business owners, Speaker A explains how to turn a production manager’s responsibilities into a…

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In this segment of a conversation aimed at painting‑business owners, Speaker A explains how to turn a production manager’s responsibilities into a super‑detailed checklist, then document that checklist in a Google Doc to form a repeatable system. He advises printing the checklist, following it on the job, and using any gaps or failures as signals to refine the list, adding conditional "if‑this‑then‑that" steps to handle variations. Speaker B adds a complementary tip: record the process either with a phone‑held recorder or by creating a Loom video walkthrough, allowing the owner to capture the procedure without being on‑site. Together, they present a practical, iterative workflow for documenting, testing, and polishing operational processes in a painting business.

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make a super detailed checklist for everything that you want that production manager to do. Once you have those checklists, write them into a Google Doc. Boom, you have systems. Next time you do one of those things, take your checklist, print it out, try to do that thing just by following the checklist. Might seem silly. You'll like be closing up the next job, you'll have this printed out checklist in your hand, you'll be trying to follow the checklist, something will come up or you won't be able to follow checklist. That means that the checklist needs to be fixed. You can make like conditions, if this then that, within checklists and systems. There's gonna be a lot of those, but want to get to that point where you can essentially just follow the process that you have written out and execute that task in an entirety.
That's a great idea, recording yourself doing it first. Another option might be possible is pull up a Loom video and just talk your way through it if you don't want to put a recorder in your pocket. It's something I do a lot. Of course, I have more access to a computer than someone that's probably running a painting business on the job.