Episodes

This Week’s Guests: Nick Slavik, Nick May, Nick LoGrasso On today’s Cage Fight episode of The Business Brush, Nick May, Nick LoGrasso, and Nick Slavik join Chris Shank as they talk about hiring and the PPP loan in their painting businesses.  Broad-strokes include: Hiring, staying busy in winter, opinions on

This Week’s Guest: Charles Boston In this week’s Business Brush, Nick May and Chris Shank sit down with Charles Boston from AH Painting. Join them as they discuss hirings, whether you should hire a painter and teach them sales or hire a salesperson and teach them painting. Broad-strokes include: Hiring

This Week’s Guest: Randy Fornoff In this week’s The Business Brush, Chris Shank sits down with Randy Fornoff discussing the importance of Job Costing. Randy talks about how he sets up his Quickbooks, the importance of categorizing every cost, and calculating and applying Overhead Costs. Broad Strokes Include- Categorization, calculating and

SKIS Painting Walls By Design FORJAK Industrial Operations managers serve an important role in a painting business. On today’s episode of The Business Brush, Chris Shank is joined by Dustin Parr (Walls By Design), Bill Curtindale (SKIS Painting) and Katie Hedges (FORJAK Industrial).  They discuss how their employees are performing

Nick May Chris Shank Today on The Business Brush, we bring you an episode on marketing. Your hosts Nick May and Chris Shank call painting companies and critique business’s messages when potential clients call. Broad-strokes include: critiquing voice messages and websites, and they discuss the importance of a clear and

This Week’s Guest: Matt Orme On this week’s episode, Nick May sits down with Matt Orme on The Business Brush as they discuss Matt’s previous experience as a teacher and basketball coach, and how he uses that background in his business. They also talk about how to cover your weaknesses.

This Week’s Guest: Matt Rowe On this week’s bonus episode, Chris Shank sits down with Matt Rowe on The Business Brush as they discuss the ins and outs of sales. In our previous episode, Matt discussed his approach to sales before the sales call. He now describes his actions during

This Week’s Guest: Matt Rowe Cheesy, sleazy and slick are adjectives commonly used to describe sales people. Our salesman’s approach to sales is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Today on The Business Brush, co-host Chris Shank is joined by Matt Rowe of iMay Media. His approach to sales