| Ask yourself what exactly that you want from your | | | | who probably will bend your ear about starting a |
| painting business. Do you want to turn your back on | | | | painting business? It's too bad this chatterbox doesn't |
| the world and just paint to your heart is content? D o | | | | know anything, and a dead giveaway to the clerk's |
| you want to make a lot of money? Do you want | | | | lack of knowledge of the painting business is the fact |
| freedom? Do you want to be your own boss? Do you | | | | that this clerk is standing behind the counter and not |
| like the idea of being an entrepreneur? Do you want | | | | running a painting business. Or even a painter who |
| lots of people working for you? How about taking | | | | works for someone else but has never had the |
| month long vacations? If any of these things appeal to | | | | courage to venture out and actually try running a |
| you then read on. | | | | business. I could go down a list of those people who |
| What do you need to know to start? If you say not | | | | will tell you what you need to operate your business, |
| much, just a ladder and a brush, you will be in business | | | | including the little old lady down the street who hired a |
| for only a short time. Do you need years and years of | | | | painter once to paint her cellar, and is not an expert on |
| experience as a painter? That will make you a good | | | | the business. |
| painter but not a good painting business owner. What | | | | Before you risk poisoning your mind with garbage from |
| about having knowledge of business practices? You | | | | people who have no experience running a paint |
| definitely will learn business procedures by just being in | | | | business, and will tell you all their thoughts on this |
| business, so why not learn these things early on? | | | | subject, take some time to slow down and do a little |
| What about salesmanship? If you want to be like most | | | | research. Only absorb the information from someone |
| painting businesses that fail, then don't bother to learn | | | | who has succeeded in running a painting business for |
| anything about sales. How about having management | | | | more than ten years. Why ten years you ask; |
| skills? An absolute necessity is having management | | | | because the majority of painting businesses fail in the |
| skills. | | | | first ten years. So someone who has serviced and |
| Now another question for you is how do you learn | | | | prospered for more than ten years has good things to |
| these things? Do you ask the clerk at the paint store, | | | | tell you. |