
← Painter Growth Podcast19 Aug · 13 min
The $5K/Hour Sales Strategy Painting Contractors Ignore | Autopilot Ep.1
<p>Download your free Painter Growth training here:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUnA2M3ZjLVkzSWY4a3J3QVlXR3dMYnxBR3JiS2FuSnF2eG5ZNDJhV2hoRWtSdl9rcnJaTzRaS2U1Y1hERExBU0ZqZlRDci05bUxwVDFBdG5vaGNPRjZnanJhVWlNRng3RWZySW84NTg4anhOaTNYNzFsWDNnMEE0SXFs&q=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.paintergrowth.com%2Fgrow-v1%3Futm_source%3Dyoutube%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dgrow-v1&v=R6_WykPB_5s"> <u>https://learn.paintergrowth.com/</u></a></p><p>If you're new here, I'm Mike, founder of Painter Growth. We coach painting contractors on how to build a real business, not just run jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 contractors, from $300K solo guys to $5M teams, and our coaches are all painting business owners who built seven-figure companies themselves.</p><p>Quick version of how I got here. In my early 20s I was running my own painting business and it was a mess. Underbid jobs, painters showing up stoned, spilled paint on driveways, wrong colors on a house, I even fell off a ladder. Ended the year with a $20K tax bill I couldn't pay.</p><p>Almost quit. Didn't. Got obsessed with systems and sales instead, hired a coach, and hit $200K a month before I turned 24.</p><p>Then I moved cities for my now-wife, shut the painting business down, and spent five years helping grow a SaaS company to almost $10M a year. That's where I learned the online business side of things.</p><p>During COVID those two worlds smashed together and Painter Growth was born. Launched in Oct 2021 with $10 a day in Facebook ads and no clients. Signed 10 clients by the end of that year, 8 of them got huge results, and that was all the proof I needed.</p><p>Since then we've brought on my partner Jesse, built a team of almost 50, became an official Sherwin-Williams coaching partner, and got named PCA 2026 Partner of the Year.</p><p>You don't have to be a great painter to build a great painting business. You have to be a great business owner who hires great painters. That's the switch we help people make.</p><p>Right now I'm heads down on AI, building tools inside Painter Growth like a bookkeeping assistant and a proposal generator. Contractors who get ahead of this are going to win big.</p><p>Still figuring it out, still building, right alongside 1,500 contractors doing the same thing.</p><p>Never quit,Mike</p><p>Get a FREE Painting Business Growth Session. In 30 minutes, we'll build you a custom plan to grow →<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVFc2by1uUVdRWVVRTk1iMjh0UDVVRHxBR3JiS2FuLUEtbm11Z3RQVEZ3UHIzS3ZFQko5SkJiNDB2eHVOMUhaVXVFUjRnN0M5NXVmdFFLUGMwQ1BrZ3Nud21Ld0dqNzBNTDVpRVdBQ0lKWkM2NmppNW1XMXdGYnRkdm9W&q=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.paintergrowth.com%2Fbook-your-call-1%3Futm_source%3Dyoutube%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dbooking&v=R6_WykPB_5s"> </a><a href="https://learn.paintergrowth.com/book-"><u>https://learn.paintergrowth.com</u></a></p><p>Painter Growth content is for educational purposes only. Results vary. Individual outcomes depend on the effort, situation, and decisions of each business owner.</p><p><br></p>