He Sold Just $3,500 in 2 Months… Now He’s on Track for $750K

Download our Fast Growth Roadmap for Painting Contractors: https://paintingbusinesspro.com/fast-... Download Million Dollar Painting Contractor Case Studies Here → https://paintingbusinesspro.com/case-... Mike Kranz spent 15 years managing restaurants. Long hours. Constant fires. Phone burning in his pocket even on his days off. And after all that, still living paycheck to paycheck. He spent the last five years of it dragging his feet to work, trying to find any way out. He applied for project manager jobs. Started certifications. Nobody would hire him out of the industry. Then he started watching this podcast - and saw guys with zero painting experience building real businesses. So he started his own painting company on the side. And for two months, almost nothing happened. It took him a full month just to sell his first job. After two months in business, he'd sold a grand total of $3,500. That's the part where most people quit. Mike didn't. Because the very next month, November, he sold $40K. Then December, another $40K. On New Year's Eve he sold a $7K job, walked into his restaurant on January 1st, and quit. He's now on track to do $700K to $750K in his first year - with two beach trips, a Disney cruise, and a stress level that's actually lower than it was in the restaurant. This one's for you if you're stuck in a job you dread, you've got zero painting experience, and you have no idea where you'd even start. Casey sat down with Mike on the latest PBP Show, and Mike was completely candid - the mistakes, the bad hire, the stuff he'd do differently. Here's some of what they get into: The two months where Mike sold just $3,500 - and why he didn't quit How he got his first jobs with nothing but yard signs and free posts in neighborhood Facebook groups Why his stress went down after starting a business, not up Why Mike runs estimates on Saturdays on purpose - and why his sales rate is higher then than any other day The mistake Mike made when his Facebook ads started working too well - and what he had to go back to when his cost per lead doubled The 3-Hour estimate: "if you spend three hours with somebody, they're going to sign at the end" The bad sub hire that ended with Mike telling a homeowner "there's no final walkthrough - I don't want a penny from you" Why he now wraps furniture "like an igloo" - and how it became one of his best selling points The job he rushed before Christmas chasing revenue - and what it cost him Why Mike tells his own subcontractors "I'm not a painter" - and why it makes them better Mike's first two months looked like failure. They weren't. They were just the part nobody talks about. #businessstrategy #contractorsuccess #businesstips @EricBarstowCo ​