Swimming in Murky Water: A Painter's 90-Day Financial Turnaround

<p>Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=grow-v1</p><p>If you&#39;re new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I&#39;m the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs.</p><p>We&#39;ve worked with over 1,500 painting contractors. Our clients range from guys doing $300K a year to teams pushing past $5M. Our coaches are real painting business owners who built seven-figure companies themselves. Not theory guys.</p><p>Here&#39;s how I got here.</p><p>Early 20s: Running my own painting business. Couldn&#39;t close jobs. Underbidding everything. Painters showed up stoned. Spilled paint on driveways. Painted houses the wrong color. I fell off a ladder. Ended my first year with a $20,000 tax bill I couldn&#39;t pay.</p><p>Still early 20s: Almost quit. Didn&#39;t. Got obsessed with systems, sales, and getting help. I hired my first business coach, fixed the chaos &amp; hit over $200K a month in sales before I turned 24.</p><p>Mid-20s: Followed my girlfriend (now wife) to a new city. Shut the painting business down. Took a job in SaaS. Spent five years helping grow a software company from scratch to nearly $10M a year. That&#39;s where I learned how to build and scale an online business.</p><p>During COVID: My two worlds collided. Running a painting business plus scaling software companies. I launched a side hustle that pulled both together. It became Painter Growth.</p><p>October 2021: Launched with an MVP and $10 a day in Facebook ads. No money. No clients. No connections.</p><p>End of 2021: Signed my first 10 clients. Eight got massive results. That was all the proof I needed.</p><p>Late 2022: Brought on Jesse, my partner and CFO. Hired our first coach and first VA. Reinvested everything back into the business.</p><p>2023 and beyond: Built a team of nearly 50, including seven-figure painting business owners coaching full time.</p><p>We became an official Sherwin-Williams partner and we’re the exclusive coaching program referred by them.</p><p>We we’re named PCA 2026 Partner of the Year.</p><p>You don&#39;t need to be a good painter to build a great painting business. You need to be a good business owner who hires good painters. Most contractors never make that switch. We help them make it.</p><p>What I&#39;m focused on right now: AI and systems. We&#39;re building AI-powered tools inside Painter Growth, including a bookkeeping assistant and a proposal generator. The contractors who figure this out early are going to pull ahead.</p><p>I&#39;m still building. Still figuring things out. But I&#39;m doing it alongside 1,500 contractors who are all in the middle of their own fight to build something real.</p><p>If you&#39;re in that fight, you&#39;re in the right place.</p><p>Never quit,</p><p>Mike</p><p>Get a FREE Painting Business Growth Session. In 30 minutes, we&#39;ll build you a custom plan to grow → https://learn.paintergrowth.com/book-your-call-1?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=booking</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>