Field Service Management Tips for Painting Contractors 

Professional painters know that there are distinct seasons in the painting industry.  

There’s the busy season—when you practically live in your overalls and jumpsuits and have permanent stains under your fingernails. And then, there’s the lull—when brushes and rollers remain painfully dry. 

Fortunately, with the right tools and training, you can keep the business momentum going all year long. That’s where Service Fusion and our partner, Painter Growth, come in.  

Painter Growth is the fastest-growing business training and coaching organization in the painting space. And with the added power of Service Fusion’s business management tools, your painting business can reach new heights.  

Let’s take a look at our 3 top field service management tips for painting contractors, and the role that Painter Growth and Service Fusion can play in helping you grow. 

1. Work toward sustained business growth. 

Not making the grade when it comes to company development? Your business may be missing some of the targets required for meaningful growth.  

Make sure you’re setting regular growth goals and evaluating your progress toward reaching them. Here are 4 weekly sales numbers painting contractors should focus on:  

• Sales goal: The measurable sales target set by the business for a defined period, including daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual objectives. 

• Average job size: The typical monetary value or scope of a project, calculated by dividing total revenue by the number of jobs completed. 

• Slippage: The shortfall between projected sales and actual results, where leads don’t convert into estimates or jobs. 

• Sales conversion rate: The percentage of leads that convert to become customers. You can measure this by dividing your number of sales by your number of leads and multiplying the figure by 100. 

Convert leads efficiently. 

Painter Growth takes your lofty goals and tracks them inside sophisticated spreadsheets.  

Go back to those sales numbers above—Painter Growth’s intelligent spreadsheets automatically update with those figures to calculate how many leads, estimates, and booked jobs you need each week to track your progress. 

2. Move beyond basic tools.  

As you grow, tracking jobs requires more than Google Calendar or bare-bones spreadsheets. Luckily, putting the right solutions into place is easier than you think. 

Get the best of both worlds. 

If spreadsheets keep your business organized, you don’t have to give them up—just make them better.  

Painter Growth streamlines production with a production schedule template that tells you how many days jobs will take. As you book each job, enter the revenue, hours required, production dates, and painter count to better understand how heavy the lift will be. 

When you marry this with an all-in-one software such as Service Fusion, better job management is practically a guarantee.  

Use Painter Growth’s scheduling templates to manage multiple crews and ensure workforce availability, bringing in Service Fusion’s technology to track jobs, keep crews busy, and streamline bookings. 

3. Apply a fresh coat to your processes.  

Painter Growth goes beyond templates to achieve your sales goals, offering business training for painting service contractors. But you can send its value over the top by using Service Fusion’s painting software at the same time. 

Simplify estimates and invoices. 

Don’t leave your customers guessing about the financial aspects of their job. Service Fusion takes you from estimate to payment, automating tasks and ensuring customers understand what to expect.  

Our estimating tools simplify quotes from creation to agreement. Pull in prepopulated product and service line items to shave off time. Plus, share flexible estimate options that match customer budgets. All good to go? Customers can quickly sign off with eSign options. 

And when the hard work is done, generate digital invoices and follow-ups without breaking a sweat.  

Service Fusion software allows painting contractors to automate invoices and reminders after each job. You can also enable self-service online credit, debit, and ACH payments. 

Streamline scheduling and dispatching. 

“Enough is enough with all the paperwork!” That’s our take, and you’ve probably felt the same way.  

When pen-and-paper scheduling or spreadsheet management becomes too complex, Service Fusion automation steps in.  

Our automation tools aim to help you get the most out of every day without becoming overwhelmed. Use our painting contractor software to manage workloads in a drag-and-drop calendar and take steps to optimize performance.  

GPS fleet tracking helps you assign the right technicians to the right jobs and share driving directions. Meanwhile, integrated SMS messaging makes it easier to stay in touch. 

Improve customer satisfaction. 

Customers are happiest when you go above and beyond. Do you really “get” them and accommodate their needs?  

Painting contractors turn to Service Fusion to give customers what they need.  

Self-service web booking offers customers the freedom to schedule service around their lives. And when you use the software to record customer preferences and communicate via text messages and on-the-way alerts, customer service reaches new heights. 

Bring Service Fusion and Painter Growth together. 

Grow your business, upgrade the tools that keep your brushes in motion, and elevate operational processes with a winning combination of painting contractor software and training.  

Trust Painter Growth and Service Fusion to set your business up for success.  

Download our ebook for a closer look at how Painter Growth helps you scale—even as the season winds down.