There is lots of information on the Web about starting a painting business. Do yourself a favor before you read any article written about this business, and find out more about the writer. I did a search and found quite a few articles about starting a painting business. A good many articles weren’t written by painting contractors and a lot of information in those “How to” articles can cost you a lot of time and money chasing your tail. I have over thirty years experience in starting my own painting company and running it successfully; so if you intend to start a paint business and run it successfully right from the beginning then learn to do things the right way without having to backtrack and unlearn bad information.

I do know about learning things because I began my business from scratch. Every year that I was in business I took courses, seminars and read countless books. All these courses, seminars and books were written or created by experts in their specific field. Some of these people were experts in the painting business; some of these people were experts in sales trainingher latest blog; some of these people were experts in determining the selling price or hourly price of a contractor’s job.

On first glance, a starting a painting business is a relatively easy thing to do. Not only is it easy to start but it is relatively inexpensive to begin this business. Here’s the difficulty, 90 % of all construction services fail and go out of business in the first ten years. And why does this happen? Is it lack of business? No, it is lack of money. How can a company have lots of business and yet fail? Their costs of doing business are higher than the amount they charge for their business.

If you are just looking for an exercise in starting a business, and leaving it in a short time then follow these peoples advice, the ones who have no experience but want to tell you how to start a painting business. But if you want to start a successful business that can give you freedom, make a lot of money be your own boss then learn the business the correct way right from the start.