hey welcome back it's tim oh and this is
timo paints and today i'm going to talk
to you guys about how to get your first
paint jobs for your brand new paint
business that you just started
so say you're having trouble getting
leads i'm going to talk to you guys
about how i started my paint business
how i got my very first jobs
in the books but before i go into that i
want to tell you guys that i have
created this free estimating guide
and it's totally free and it takes all
the guesswork out of estimating and
it'll help you guys
never under bid again so it'll be the
top link in the description below
and it'll be the pin comment as well
it's free it's my gift to you guys
all right let's get in the video with
that being said so
i wanted to explain a little bit about
let's say you're all over you're ready
to go you're ready to go
you got the equipment you got the time
you're doing this i'm starting to paint
business i'm doing it
now how do i go about getting my first
job now the way that i went about it
when i first started out is i already
had some experience painting so
i decided to just paint my own bedroom i
just painted my own bedroom that way i
could get really good that way i felt
more
confident going out to get my first job
like say you land the job
and you don't have that quite that
confidence and honestly the confidence
if you have the confidence you're going
to go into the job into the estimate
even
feeling confident that you can tackle
the task at hand and you're going to do
a great job
and that shows you know if you exude a
little bit of confidence because you're
you're confident in your ability to
paint to their satisfaction that's gonna
help you along the way so i mean
really out the gate that's like probably
tip number one is to be confident
now that you're painting your own room
it's so easy nowadays to get before and
after pictures so make sure you get
those before and after pictures
now you painted your own room you took a
before and after picture you want to put
it up on like your facebook page
or like an instagram page or twitter
whatever you have right and that kind of
gets
gets it out there and then just in the
description say hey you know i'm
painting bedrooms now
and before you know it i guarantee
you're going to get somebody hitting you
up people can start
sharing it share it hijack your friends
pages just put it up there
i'm a painter now but that that worked
for me and that also
helped me gain experience and that also
helped me gain confidence that way
once this tactic started working um
i started getting a job and then you get
that first job you go in then you take
before and after pictures
better yet video back when i got started
we didn't really have good quality video
to upload but nowadays with smartphones
i mean you could just upload videotape
yourself doing it
set it over in the corner and get a
little time lapse or something and put
it up on your facebook page because
people love video
and just explain i'm painting now i'm a
painter another
good tactic that i used when i first
started out and was trying to generate
more
paint business was i got some business
cards
i uh ordered like i still have them too
which is crazy i think it were like a
thousand business cards something insane
like that
so i had a business cards and i had some
i was i had a little silk screen set up
but i mean you get some shirts i made my
own but you could get some shirts
and then just you know like i would go
out to breakfast in the mornings wearing
full
whites all my painter whites even even
though like
maybe i wasn't painting that day but i
would just do it anyways because
you'd be at the gas station and somebody
oh you're a painter yeah yeah i'm a
painter here's my card
boom you just generated the lead you
know and now it's up to you to close it
they call you for an estimate
you download the free estimating guide
in the comments section and the
description
it's totally free you go estimate the
house using that free estimating guide
and then uh you make some money man and
then you're off and running and that's
another job in the books with before and
after pictures
or before and after video even that's
even better in order to generate
leads your very first leads what i did
was
i painted my bedroom over and over
literally like three different times
to get the experience to get the
confidence right
and to get the before and after pictures
now you take those before and after
pictures you put them up if you get a
lead
you follow up to the lead you show them
they are confident in your abilities
to get this done you do that job
typically a small job but probably like
a bathroom or something if it's your
first job
or a small bedroom then you do more you
know video then you put it up on your
facebook page
now you're wearing your whites you're
going to the gas station you're going
everywhere people are you're a pain
you're like yeah i'm a painter here's my
card
and then it just snowballs from there
and i promise as long as you get out
there you work hard and you do a good
job
you're gonna be in good shape so don't
forget click the links in the
description below for your free
estimating guide and i'll see you guys
in the next video