Category: Business & Operations
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Episode Notes: What a First Year in Coatings Actually Looks Like
Nobody starts in this trade knowing what they don’t know. That’s not a knock on anyone, it’s just how the work goes. You learn to run a gun, you learn to read a substrate, and you learn most of the real lessons the hard way, usually on a job where something went wrong in a…
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Building a Coating Business From One Truck
Most coatings businesses start with one truck, one rig, and one person answering every call. The four transitions that decide whether it grows past that, and the ceiling that shows up at each one.
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What Contractors Get Wrong When Bidding Containment Work
The low bid on containment work is usually wrong in the same three places: thinned prep, details priced by square foot, and confined-space access nobody scoped. What to walk, what to count, and what to put in the bid.