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Painting Biz Owners: Learn what may be eating up your time. Talking w-Mike at PainterGrowth.com

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Learn what may be eating up your time. Talking w-Mike at PainterGrowth.com
Uploaded: 2024-02-13T14:00:00+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this interview, the host and Mike discuss how painting contractors, especially those running two to three crews, often waste large amounts of time on…

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In this interview, the host and Mike discuss how painting contractors, especially those running two to three crews, often waste large amounts of time on low‑impact activities such as site checks, customer calls, picking up checks, and fixing paint orders. Mike advises that owners first brainstorm all production‑manager duties, write them down, and use that list to create a clear job description for hiring a production manager. By distinguishing between low‑impact ($50/hr) and high‑impact ($500/hr) tasks, owners can refocus their effort on activities that truly drive profit and reduce the 60‑hour weekly time drain caused by routine errands.

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What are you doing right now in production management? Brainstorm those things, put those things on a piece of paper, and that drives what you're actually putting in your job description. Seems like that would make it a lot easier to tackle that first step of getting a new production manager hired.
Most painting contractors in that first to mid-tier level, not necessarily owner-operator, but 2 to 3 crews running a million miles an hour, often don't know what they're doing with their time. Like, oh, I gotta check on this site, then I gotta— this customer wants to talk to me, and then I gotta go pick up this check, and then I gotta go pick up paint, and then, oh, this— they screwed up the paint order, so I'm gonna be at the paint store for 45 minutes. And like, All of these little things that you're doing throughout the day are very low impact activities. And I have some videos around like low impact versus high impact, your $50 an hour or $500 an hour tasks, et cetera. But the average owner is spending 60 hours a week on low impact activities that don't need to be done.