Transition to Paperless Estimating

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How To Bid Paint Jobs: The Secret to Painting Estimates in 2020. My Secrets Revealed!

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The video's host, "The Idaho Painter," begins by detailing the evolution of his exterior painting estimation process. He recounts how, early in his career, he would manually conduct each estimate, involving driving to the customer's house, walking through the property with them, selling his company's services, and then returning to the office to create a detailed, often 20-22 page, printed bid packet. This traditional method was incredibly time-consuming, requiring up to an hour for each visit, plus travel and administrative time. As his business grew, this became unsustainable, leading him to adopt a more efficient, paperless system that leverages online resources like Google Earth, Zillow, and Realtor.com to bypass in-person visits and physical paperwork.

Goal: Understand the business's journey from manual to efficient paperless estimation and the benefits derived.

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this is christy idaho painter here on paint life tv today i'm going to be talking about doing exterior estimates how i quickly and easily do them and how i do them paperless i'm going to focus on exterior estimates in another video and series of videos i'm going to do interior estimates new construction estimates decks and fences and even concrete flooring but this video has to be focused on exterior estimates easy how i quickly and easily do them and don't use printers and paper so stay tuned for this video all right so let's talk about how i go about doing estimates when i first started doing estimates early in my career i would go out and meet every single customer i would customer call up ask for an estimate i'd go to the house i'd walk the house with the customer sell my company sell myself i'd go back home after i gathered all the information which typically took about you know an hour driving there working with the customer driving back home i write the estimate on a computer then i would print it up and it was about a 20 22 to 20 page document i put it in a folder with all kinds of other stuff that was my bid packet and then i would deliver it back to the customer hand deliver it to them if they were home or just leave it on the porch they weren't that was a very time consuming process uh driving time gas meeting with the customer um the printer the paper the ink all that stuff it was just very time consuming but early in my career it was very important to do that because i had to sell myself and um to every single customer because i had no work and so it was important that face-to-face interaction as years went by and i started getting more and more estimates more and more referrals it it became really difficult to meet every customer and almost impossible and too time-consuming and as i started adopting this process of doing paperless estimates and not even meeting the customer and i started using um online means like google earth zillow and realtor.com and i'm going to talk about you know how i use those uh those um

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