College Works Painting
Overview
College Works Painting provides undergraduates with an opportunity to run their own business. You function under their leadership learning sales, painting estimates, and managing a work crew.
Challenges
- The area I was a regional manager for was an hour from school.
- The company has a really high overhead which makes it hard to keep a profit margin.
- Painters are incredibly unreliable.
- I sold more work than I ended up having painters ready to produce.
Solutions
- I ended up running two seperate painting crews so I would be able to produce all of the work I sold.
- I was constantly interviewing painters to ensure I could keep stacking my crews as people left.
- I developed a few methods to produce faster, higher-quality work to cut down on the overhead issue. One of the secrets was painting the eves the same color as the siding. This saves a substantial amount of time while providing a nice pop with the bottom of the facia board being the same color as the trim.
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