Skip to main content
Stesso

From Self-Taught Painter to YouTube Educator and Entrepreneur

2:48
5:29
3.7K views

At 2:48 in

Building Customer Confidence. Who Is The Idaho Painter?

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

Chris describes his evolution from a self-taught painter who faced many struggles due to a lack of available learning resources (no YouTube, no specific books) to a successful YouTuber and educator. He started his YouTube channel about 8.5 years ago to give back, help others, and market his business. He recounts an invitation to YouTube San Francisco, which inspired him to make YouTube his full-time job. This decision led to expanding his business beyond painting services into a full product line (Paint Life Pro), an academy for painters, and a larger corporation. He also mentions entrusting his original painting company (B&K Painting) to another talented individual.

Goal: Chris details his transition from struggling self-taught painter to successful YouTube content creator, leading to the expansion of his brand into products, an academy, and a larger business.

Tools and materials

  • Camera and Lighting Equipment
  • Paint Can Opener
  • Paint Can BEHR Paints

What they say

Hide

a half years ago now and started off was zero and just had this idea of utilizing these platforms to educate and also help market myself it was about three years ago that I was around twenty thousand subscribers on YouTube and I was invited to you YouTube San Francisco and I left that place saying I'm gonna make YouTube my full-time job I've never used before its branched off into a lot more than YouTube into a full product line paint lifepro and and paint live products got a you know her own Academy where we teach and educate called the paint life Academy it turned into a business a corporation that was bigger than being a painting so I had to turn over my baby B&K painting to an amazing guy John Cole that runs it now on my youtube channel in my social media following I get comments every day that's many a three pages long where people are talking about hi how I completely change their lives and it's it's very rewarding one of the things I really wanted to do and I've been focused on is bringing back the professionalism to the trades I never was ashamed of being a painter there was value in what I do and now YouTube has been this this platform that who would have ever fir seen a small self pop painter from Boise Idaho teaching people across the world to not only paint but to love their career and have a career that's very financially rewarding so there you have it there's a little bit about who I am and what I do

Auto-generated from the video audio.