Quit to Make $4M/Year Doing This?!

Brandon Griffin learned how to turn a simple house painting service into a full-scale business that generates an average of $335K per month. And now he’s on track to bring in a total of $4M for 2024. The wild part though? He spent less than a total of $10K to get started.

Brandon grew up with the influence and success of his uncle as an entrepreneur owning a construction company and his father working for a big builder. He had worked for different home painting companies for years, but poor leadership and lack of consistent workflow at these businesses led Brandon to continuously hunt for new employment. Since he had learned the ins and outs from all of these different house painting services, Brandon decided to start one himself.

In this episode, Brandon gives insight into the business model, how he put efficient systems into place, leveraged Google and Facebook ads for higher conversion rates, and streamlined the business into running like a well-oiled machine without the need of his presence.

Scaling a painting business to this level, however, comes with its challenges. Brandon also shares how he overcame these and how hiring a business coach was pivotal to his success.

The main key to his success though is how he values the importance of customer satisfaction and how the business excels at making sure it stays at 100%. Brandon stresses that the first interaction with the customer up until the job is completed should be high quality at all times—which is what has led Triangle Pro to receiving over 250 5-star only reviews to this day.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start
00:44 - About the business
01:51 - Entering the painting industry
02:23 - Quitting 9-5
03:13 - Project overview
03:45 - Closing leads
04:13 - Background
05:12 - Revenue
06:03 - Margins
06:50 - Customer service
07:44 - SOPs
10:45 - Marketing and sales
11:54 - Fan blitz
13:06 - Monthly jobs closed
14:39 - Advice on making more sales
15:02 - Advertising
16:11 - Office tour
16:43 - Employees
17:167 - Hiring
17:44 - Leadership style
18:50 - On money and happiness
19:55 - Advice to budding entrepreneurs
20:56 - Hiring contractors
22:32 - Partnering with contractors
23:27 - Things to do when starting
24:13 - SEO
25:14 - Validating customers
26:09 - Supplier relationships
27:38 - That one decision
28:47 - Doing things differently
29:11 - Following through with solutions
30:08 - Most challenging project
31:43 - From employee to entrepreneur
32:21 - Securing commercial contracts
33:03 - Keeping his team motivated
34:02 - Mindset shift
34:35 - Outro

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[Mike_Wazowskii]

It might be small but those spraypaint transitions really are a nice touch

[lukestoolbox]

can't thank you enough for your content you put out!! actually just started my youtube channel because of you :D

[thepain]

I’ve painted since the 90’s. When cash work was common. These days, getting a cash painting job is much more difficult. People want tax ID. They don’t want to pay cash so often. When you’re not a business some owners try to get your SS number to claim you as an employee and take taxes. It’s just not worth the hassle. Prior referrals don’t make much different. They don’t care how good you are. People want to be involved with a business even if it costs triple the price. But when doing it as a business you need to figure out how to do all the paperwork and keep records. It becomes too much for a person that just wants to do a service, get paid, move on.

[TitaniumNonStick]

Just stumbled on your content today. It is amazing.! Lots of value thank you.

[traderz]

I wish I had a boss like that, everyone I've had is polar opposite of this guy 😅

[owendavilmar]

Best channel i ever seen thank you for your hard work u really changing how i think 💯🙏

[sutats]

He has a strong foundation on human understanding to foster great relationships with both customers and employees.

[OHANA-Beach-Suites]

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[DAVID-jftj]

Can you make a video on how to get started in the roofing business?

[SamsonOhsem]

Very inspiring. I love this very informative channel 👍🏻

[brushmasterspaintingfranchise]

Nice video! Brandons sops and numbers are spot on. same as us. good work brother!

[Jackmagee]

As a residential painter, I am barely netting 10% as the highest in my market... I have got to get my costs of good sold under control... I think there are some pre-caution and prep items that I can forego to bring that delta down substantially. My pricing is about as high as it can get. We are consistently the highest price and my gross profit still struggles to be 40%.

[demetriuslockhart]

Great video. Hiring independent contractors has more cons than pros in my opinion. When it comes to contractors you have limited amount of control which might affect the quality of the work. Also there is no incentive to the best job possible. A big pro is saving money on payroll taxes, this factors into healthy profit margins.

[swatski]

Covid def helped with the growth....everybody need to get stuff done

[surajrayz]

When the opportunity cost of getting in to a business is so low, wouldn't there be more competition? I guess it's the word of mouth and the ratings that help. Also this business is catered more towards the rich because the middle and lower class would probably paint their own house/apartments

[AhmetSafaKurt]

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