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Painting Biz Owners: What are the steps and how-to guides that go into creating your core processes?

Name: Painting Biz Owners: What are the steps and how-to guides that go into creating your core processes?
Uploaded: 2024-03-27T13:00:37+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this instructional segment, the speaker advises painting business owners to map out concise, roughly ten‑step processes for each service they…

27 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, the speaker advises painting business owners to map out concise, roughly ten‑step processes for each service they offer—such as interior and exterior painting. The steps should cover the full workflow from client onboarding, scheduling, pre‑walkaround, execution, cleanup, final walk‑through, payment collection, to job completion. After establishing the high‑level steps, the owner should develop detailed how‑to guides for each step, ideally combining video demonstrations, written instructions, and checklists into a single package. The guidance emphasizes keeping the process simple, avoiding excessive detail, and ensuring the instructional materials are comprehensive and multi‑format.

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Take process. So let's take interior painting. What are the steps for each process? It might be step 1, get the colors from the client. Step 2 is schedule them for production. Step 3, do a pre-walkaround with the customer. Something like that. It doesn't have to be those steps exactly, obviously, but however you do things from onboarding them for interior painting to going to the job, actually completing the painting, doing the cleanup, doing the final walkaround, collecting payment, and finishing the jobs. What does that whole process look like? Those steps should be about 10 steps or so. Don't get too caught into the weeds. Keep it simple, about 10 steps for each process. So interior painting will have about 10 steps, exterior painting will have about 10 steps, etc. Then within that you'll have how-to guides. This is where you fill in the details for how do you do each step of the process. Might be video, written instructions, a checklist of things. Ideally it would be all 3 of those things together in one package.