How Long To Measure And Come Up With A Painting Price?

Mr. Mike

I see you say you rely on 100% word of mouth but you spend money on advertising. How does that make since?

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WisePainter

*sense

I buy business cards which are handed out to customers strictly for referral purposes.
That is the extent of my spending, maybe $40.00 every year.
I would hardly consider that $pending money on adverti$ing.

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Mr. Mike

Do you do more than 26 jobs a year Wise? Not measuring you up or anything, I just can't see you doing many jobs with just word of mouth.


I would normally go edit that since...

I wondering what one to go with?

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WisePainter

I am a solo painter...do the math.


1) Learn to cut and paste a post, it is simple and allows your audience to reference the original post.

2) Seriously, you dug that up?

3) I have dropped everything lately for a more streamlined "advertising" method because I am getting more word of mouth work than advertising leads.

4) lol.


Are you showing me attention because I mocked the spilled paint can on your truck?
lol @ spilled paint when advertising a painting company...
It's like an airline advertising with a crashed airplane.

Are we even now?

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WisePainter

Not to mention I moved here a little over 2 years ago with nothing and I have been pulling at least $40,000 a year so far.
2009 will top that.

yay me!

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Mr. Mike

With that one we are even, Good game.

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Tinstaafl

Not when the original post has been edited.

Mr. Mike

Get off the editing balls, this is not English class.

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WisePainter

Excuse me?
I edit to correct spelling, and punctuation, or to add a thought.
Back peddling is not something I have ever been very good at, I stand behind my posts.

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Tinstaafl

Not you, Wise.

The edit feature is there to be used as you do. However, it makes it all too easy to "change history" by altering posts which in many cases have already been read and/or responded to. In many cases, people do that without really considering the ramifications.

At the least, it can make a thread somewhat confusing, as people are seen to respond to something that's no longer there, or not respond to something that's been added. And used without integrity, it can totally change the meaning of what was originally posted, allowing an Orwellian re-writing of history.

I'm not accusing Mike or anyone else of doing that per se, but constant editing of one's posts does cast a shadow on all of them.

Better to review and correct before hitting Submit, and deal with the conversation just as one would face to face.

WisePainter

Excellent post!
It has been a taxing morning for me, I apologize for taking your post the wrong way.

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DRC

I remember when a 4 page thread meant there was a good fight going on. Bitching, name calling, slander, even talking about your mama. Not this polite, informative conversation crap. This forum is going down the drain.

Mr. Mike

I'll take the credit for this,

As to editing, I usually will add edit: right above what I added. Also you may notice on some posts I'm the only one up posting at the particular time of night. lol. Thanks for the information Tins, I will try to be cautious when editing during a hot topic that is getting several posts.

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