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Painting Biz Owners: Mike at PainterGrowth on why analyzing busy work leads to efficiency & revenue

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Mike at PainterGrowth on why analyzing busy work leads to efficiency & revenue
Uploaded: 2024-02-14T14:00:16+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: This content was created by balanced-griffin. This content was uploaded by balanced-griffin. This is a YouTube video titled "Painting Biz Owners: Mike at…

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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: Mike at PainterGrowth on why analyzing busy work leads to efficiency & revenue" (created 2024-02-14). It contains an interview-style exchange between Mike (from PainterGrowth) and another speaker discussing time management and delegation for painting business owners — evaluating which tasks to delegate (low-value, ~$25/hr) versus which high-leverage tasks to prioritize (revenue-driving, ~$1,000), empowering foremen, setting expectations, and enabling remote oversight to improve efficiency and revenue.

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I'm completely guilty of this. I feel like I'm accomplishing so much because I'm doing all these tasks, but you have to back up a little bit. Should I be doing these things? Are they high-leverage activities that I need to be doing that are really going to be driving my business forward? Or is it something that I could give to an administrative assistant or someone else that can do those $25 an hour tasks? And I need to be focusing on the $1,000 tasks that are going to be getting revenue in the door. A lot of folks, they say, oh, I'm so busy. But like, what are you really doing? I think that's a key thing to analyze is what are you doing? What value are those tasks bringing into your business? 100%.
I was talking to one of my clients, he's like, I'm so busy, Mike. I'm so busy. Well, let's look at it. What are you doing all day? He's like, well, every single day in the morning I go visit every crew and I get each crew started for the day. First of all, why? That takes half of your week just doing that. We started figuring, okay, how can you do this remotely? How can you empower your painters? A lot of the time you don't even need a production manager. You just need really good foremen. You need expectation setting with your current team. People can handle a lot more than you give them credit for if you set the expectation and compensate for the outcome that you want.