Painting Contractors: Professional Information

There are a few advertising basics to consider when promoting your business.

Three great strategies to keep your customers coming back.

Develop an understanding of your strengths and your customers' needs.

Making sure you get everything that's owed to you — including compensation for costs of doing business — starts with proper estimating.

While rates for property and casualty insurance and surety bonds are expected to continue increasing, you can keep insurance programs from gnawing away at your profits. Here's how.

Restoring the balance between your work and life.

Can you afford a vacation? Can you afford not to?

Painting contractors across the country are increasingly using digital photography to document their work, improve customer service and generate sales. Here's how three different companies are putting the technology to use.

Selecting the right brushes and rollers is a crucial step in making your paint jobs look better while helping you to do your work more easily and efficiently.

Using the right primer in the right situation can make the difference between a surface with washed-out color or penetrating stains and one that has a bright, resilient, durable finish.

Improve the accuracy of your colors with the right shade of undercoat.

A working knowledge of color basics can help you better understand your customers' choices and raise your value in their eyes.

Take the Color Quotient quiz.

A glossary of 10 essential color terms.