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How To Scale a Painting Business (Complete Guide)

Send us Fan Mail Learn the 4 stages of a Painting Business, from startup to $3M+, and the financial tests to pass before scaling, hiring, increasing marketing spend, or building a company that can run without you. Know Your Numbers…

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Recently Added How To Scale a Painting Business (Complete Guide) 13:49

How To Scale a Painting Business (Complete Guide)

Oct 19, 2026
Recently Added I Compared Painting Businesses at 4 Stages (When Growth Pays Off) 37:27

I Compared Painting Businesses at 4 Stages (When Growth Pays Off)

Oct 16, 2026
Recently Added The Tax Mistakes Painting Business Owners Keep Making (AVOID THEM) 39:41

The Tax Mistakes Painting Business Owners Keep Making (AVOID THEM)

Oct 13, 2026
Recently Added Why There’s Never Money Left in Your Painting Business 7:38

Why There’s Never Money Left in Your Painting Business

Oct 11, 2026
Recently Added How Should a Painting Business Pay Key Hires (Admin, PM, Sales) 48:23

How Should a Painting Business Pay Key Hires (Admin, PM, Sales)

Oct 8, 2026
Recently Added How to Deduct Health Insurance in Your Painting Business (3 Ways) 6:46

How to Deduct Health Insurance in Your Painting Business (3 Ways)

Oct 6, 2026
Recently Added How to Know If Your Painting Business Is Actually Profitable 35:37

How to Know If Your Painting Business Is Actually Profitable

Oct 5, 2026
Should Your Painting Business Rent or Own Its Building? 7:42

Should Your Painting Business Rent or Own Its Building?

Oct 2, 2026
Why $1M Painting Businesses Feel Broke (and How to Fix It) 36:27

Why $1M Painting Businesses Feel Broke (and How to Fix It)

Sep 30, 2026
3 Advanced Tax Strategies for Painting Business Owners ($400K+ Income) 6:31

3 Advanced Tax Strategies for Painting Business Owners ($400K+ Income)

Sep 29, 2026
Painting Business Profit Margins by Revenue (Real Numbers) 8:05

Painting Business Profit Margins by Revenue (Real Numbers)

Sep 27, 2026
How Much Can You Sell Your Painting Business For? (7 Things to Know) 9:20

How Much Can You Sell Your Painting Business For? (7 Things to Know)

Sep 24, 2026
Inside a $4M Painting Business Doing ALMOST Everything Right… Except This 18:33

Inside a $4M Painting Business Doing ALMOST Everything Right… Except This

Sep 21, 2026
This Painting Business Owner’s 10% Discount Is Quietly Killing His $1.7M Business 20:09

This Painting Business Owner’s 10% Discount Is Quietly Killing His $1.7M Business

Sep 16, 2026
This Painting Contractor Turned Off His Meta Ads. IT COTS HIM $50,000! 15:20

This Painting Contractor Turned Off His Meta Ads. IT COTS HIM $50,000!

Sep 13, 2026
Can This $850K Painting Business Really Hit $2M in 12 Months? 17:59

Can This $850K Painting Business Really Hit $2M in 12 Months?

Sep 10, 2026
Can This $350K Painting Business Owner Really Double in 12 Months? 16:16

Can This $350K Painting Business Owner Really Double in 12 Months?

Sep 8, 2026
If I Buy a Painting Business.. Here’s What I Check First 13:00

If I Buy a Painting Business.. Here’s What I Check First

Sep 7, 2026
How I’d Grow a Painting Business From $1M to $3M 14:54

How I’d Grow a Painting Business From $1M to $3M

Sep 3, 2026
What $1M PAINTING CONTRACTORS Know that You Don’t 17:58

What $1M PAINTING CONTRACTORS Know that You Don’t

Aug 31, 2026
6 Financial Moves for Painting Businesses Under $350K 11:55

6 Financial Moves for Painting Businesses Under $350K

Aug 27, 2026
12 Strategies for Painting Contractors to Legally Pay Less in Taxes 15:48

12 Strategies for Painting Contractors to Legally Pay Less in Taxes

Aug 24, 2026
Helping a $700K Painting Business Fix Its Overhead and Pricing 24:43

Helping a $700K Painting Business Fix Its Overhead and Pricing

Aug 14, 2026
Helping a $500k Painting Business with Profitability and Exit Planning 17:55

Helping a $500k Painting Business with Profitability and Exit Planning

Aug 7, 2026
Helping a $1.5M Painting Business with Sales Compensation Models 14:47

Helping a $1.5M Painting Business with Sales Compensation Models

Jul 31, 2026
Helping a Painting Franchise with 3 Accounting Red Flags 18:34

Helping a Painting Franchise with 3 Accounting Red Flags

Jul 24, 2026
Helping a $600k Painting Business Boost Profitability 19:51

Helping a $600k Painting Business Boost Profitability

Jul 17, 2026
Helping a $650k Painting Business Optimize Their Customer Acquisition Cost 21:58

Helping a $650k Painting Business Optimize Their Customer Acquisition Cost

Jul 10, 2026
Helping a $700k Painting Business Manage Debt and Cash Flow 6:30

Helping a $700k Painting Business Manage Debt and Cash Flow

Jul 3, 2026
Helping a $1.5M Painting Business Save Big in Tax 16:08

Helping a $1.5M Painting Business Save Big in Tax

Jun 26, 2026
Helping a $600k Painting Business Owner Fix Their Offer and Cashflow 28:24

Helping a $600k Painting Business Owner Fix Their Offer and Cashflow

Jun 19, 2026
Helping a $1.4M Painting Business Owner Increase Margin and Cash 21:13

Helping a $1.4M Painting Business Owner Increase Margin and Cash

Jun 12, 2026
Helping a $900k Painting Business Owner Save Big in Tax 18:20

Helping a $900k Painting Business Owner Save Big in Tax

Jun 5, 2026
LLC Or S-Corp? 6:16

LLC Or S-Corp?

May 29, 2026
A $1.5 Million Painting Company Can Still Run Out Of Money 8:49

A $1.5 Million Painting Company Can Still Run Out Of Money

May 22, 2026
Stop Spending 10% On Marketing Blindly 6:16

Stop Spending 10% On Marketing Blindly

May 15, 2026
Seven Commercial Painting Mistakes That Drain Cash 7:08

Seven Commercial Painting Mistakes That Drain Cash

May 8, 2026
Profitable Outbound Marketing 6:02

Profitable Outbound Marketing

May 1, 2026
Stop Pricing Like Everyone Else 5:47

Stop Pricing Like Everyone Else

Apr 24, 2026
Profit Is Not Cash 7:26

Profit Is Not Cash

Apr 17, 2026
Multi-Location LLC Blueprint 7:52

Multi-Location LLC Blueprint

Apr 10, 2026
Why A Four-Week Backlog Can Kill Painting Business Growth 8:49

Why A Four-Week Backlog Can Kill Painting Business Growth

Apr 3, 2026
Painting Profit Benchmarks At Every Stage 8:57

Painting Profit Benchmarks At Every Stage

Mar 27, 2026
Find Your Bottleneck, Fix Your Growth 10:15

Find Your Bottleneck, Fix Your Growth

Mar 20, 2026
How A Simple Structure Can Cut Taxes And Shield Your Assets 12:59

How A Simple Structure Can Cut Taxes And Shield Your Assets

Mar 13, 2026
How Painting Contractors Turn Rental Paper Losses Into Real Tax Savings 7:48

How Painting Contractors Turn Rental Paper Losses Into Real Tax Savings

Mar 6, 2026
Painting Business Value, Explained 9:02

Painting Business Value, Explained

Feb 27, 2026
From Startup To Sale In Four Years 41:22

From Startup To Sale In Four Years

Feb 20, 2026
Are Meta Ads Worth It? 7:50

Are Meta Ads Worth It?

Feb 13, 2026
Price Painting Jobs With Confidence 9:05

Price Painting Jobs With Confidence

Feb 6, 2026
Design Compensation That Turns Growth Into Cash, Not Chaos 8:22

Design Compensation That Turns Growth Into Cash, Not Chaos

Jan 30, 2026
Four Numbers Every Painting Business Must Track To Grow Safely 7:18

Four Numbers Every Painting Business Must Track To Grow Safely

Jan 23, 2026
Cash Flow First 7:08

Cash Flow First

Jan 23, 2026
How Painting Owners Build A Million-Dollar Budget On Purpose 9:53

How Painting Owners Build A Million-Dollar Budget On Purpose

Jan 16, 2026
Are You Paying Yourself Right? 7:27

Are You Paying Yourself Right?

Jan 9, 2026
The Story of Dripjobs with Tanner Mullen 44:27

The Story of Dripjobs with Tanner Mullen

Jan 2, 2026
Servant Leadership And Systems That Scale Profits In A Painting Business 37:01

Servant Leadership And Systems That Scale Profits In A Painting Business

Dec 26, 2025
From 110K To $1.7M: How Ryan Pettis Scaled Fast 38:57

From 110K To $1.7M: How Ryan Pettis Scaled Fast

Dec 19, 2025
Knock Knock, Who’s Profitable Now 29:36

Knock Knock, Who’s Profitable Now

Dec 12, 2025
What If Your Painting Business Became Equity Instead Of A Job 38:52

What If Your Painting Business Became Equity Instead Of A Job

Dec 5, 2025
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