All Posts by Ron Ramsden

How To Stay Busy When Your Painting Business Slows Down

  How to Stay Busy When Your Painting Business Slows Down Oh no, you’re out of work… I’m Ron […]

How To Find Great Customers For Your Painting Business

How To Find Great Customers For Your Painting Business How many times have you looked back at some of […]

How to Bid Exterior Painting

How to Bid Exterior Painting   As we are trying to assist some of the contractors, they quite often […]

How to Bid Interior Painting

How to Bid/Estimate Interior Painting? Here are two easy ways to put an interior painting bid together when you […]

How to Hire and Retain Millennials in your Business

The workforce is changing… are you adapting to the changes? The millennial generation is here and the current workforce […]

7 Steps to Become a Stand-Out Member of BNI That Everyone Will Talk About

7 Steps to Become a Stand-Out Member of BNI That Everyone Will Talk About: (BNI – Business Network International […]

A FREE Tool That Will Help Your Business Stand Out From The Rest

A FREE Tool That Will Help Your Business Stand Out From The Rest By now, we all should have […]

How the Bridge Made Me Change The Way I Approach People

The story behind this small yet crooked bridge is that it sits over a small creek located on the […]

4 Things That Allow Me to Go on Vacation Without Worrying About Business

4 Things That Allow Me to Go on Vacation Without Worrying About Business Vacation again… can you believe it? […]

Biggest Referral Source For New Hires

I want to share with you today my biggest referral source for the past three weeks. For new hires, these […]

How Painting Contractors Can Book Work Through Winter

How Painting Contractors Can Book Work Through Winter Contractor, schedule, winter. Three tough words to put together, even I […]

How To Get HOA Work

Have you ever wanted to work on property like this? Here are some tips on getting in with Condominium […]

People – Profit – Process

Hello, Ron here live from a porta-potty, yes a porta-potty, I will tell you in a second why. I […]

How to Be The “Lucky” Painting Contractor

How to Be The ‘Lucky’ Painting Contractor I’m the luckiest contractor! …That’s what I was just told. I’ll tell you […]

4 Great Ideas To Improve Your Business

Four things you can do in the next five minutes that will impact your business in a positive way […]

How To Find Time For Yourself

How To Find Time For Yourself You’re probably wondering, “what’s with the funky helmet?” I am Ron Ramsden and […]

Here’s Why You NEED to Blog

Here’s Why You NEED to Blog What does this apple mean to your business? I’ll tell you, but first… I am […]

How to Stand Out From The Crowd

How to Stand Out From The Crowd Do you want to be different and stand out from the crowd? […]

5 Places I Find Painters

5 Places I Find Painters It’s a Thursday afternoon and I’m sitting here on my back deck saying, “Wow, […]

3 Way to Impress Your Customers Before You Even Start the Job

3 Way to Impress your Customers Before you Even Start the Job Let’s talk about radio silence, shhh… No […]

How I Found $12,500 at Lunch

  Today I found $12,500 during lunchtime… I’m Ron Ramsden, I’m a DYB coach, also a painting contractor North […]

This Auto Drip Saved My Business

This Auto Drip Saved My Business Drip, drip, drip, drip… How can a “drip” help your business? This drip […]

3 Fun Ways to Stay Top of Mind

My wake up call, boy did it wake me up, I’ll tell you about in a second, but first… […]

2 Easy Ways to Increase your Facebook Page Likes

Do you need help getting more likes on Facebook business page? I’m going to give you two quick tips […]

How To Generate High Value Leads for Free

  How To Generate High Value Leads for Free 6 out of the last jobs that came in were […]

5 Reasons Why You Should Never Paint The Big House On The Hill…

  The phone call came in to paint the prestigious home on the hill. This house was no ordinary […]

You’ll Never Guess Where I Found My New Employees…

You’ll never guess where I found my new employees… It’s almost Spring and my phone is ringing off the hook […]

Does Running A Painting Company Keep You Up at 3 am?

It’s 3:30 in the morning and you’re wide awake staring at the ceiling. You look over and your spouse […]

7 Steps To Hit Your Goals And Double Your Confidence…

A few years back I set a goal to get in shape, so I started running and ended up […]

How to Empower Your Team to Provide Outstanding Customer Service

The day started out at a Florida theme park. The second ride of the day, which my grandson was […]

Focus Smaller To Double Your Bottom-Line…

  A year ago when the phone rang and the caller asked if we painted a certain thing the […]

Pay More To Win Big This Season

Spring is upon us and the spring hiring season has begun. The 5 problems most painting contractors have when […]

Did You Get Left Out of Google Listings?

Did You get left out? A few months ago Google changed the local listing results home page from a […]

11 Tips to Maximize Your Blog Post ROI

Your blog is written, pictures loaded up, tag words determined, and your Yoast analysis is lit up like a […]

So You Created a Blog… Here’s What’s Next

On the previous blog, “Blogging, Why Should I“,  I talked about why you need to start a blog. Now […]

This is Why You MUST Blog

  Once I realized the reason for blogging and the big “why” behind blogging, I went all in, but first… […]

How To Setup Your PipelineDeals CRM And Close More Sales

  Remember the Rolodex? A quick glance at the letter tab rising above all the other cards snuggly in […]

Here’s The Program We Use To Grow Faster, Profitably

  For years I had worked and worked knowing there was always more work around the corner; and when […]

How To Create A Business Facebook Page That Get Leads

  Love it or hate it, it is here and everyone is using it. And by everyone, we mean […]

9 Apps That Will Save You Time

What would you do if you had more time? Work more? Play more? Spend more time with loved ones? […]

The #1 Time Sheet Tracking App For Painting Contractors

  Tracking painter’s time sheets have always been a pain in the past. From getting guys to turn them […]

My Biggest Hiring Secret

Okay, I have been in this predicament before. I call the prospective applicant, we meet for coffee and he […]

9 Ways To Get HOA And Property Management Work

Have you ever driven by those large condominium associations with crews working on them and thought to yourself, “How can […]

21 Days To Finish ’16 Strong And Position Yourself To Crush It In 2017…

    It is only THREE weeks until the end of the year. Does this scenario sound familiar to you? […]

How Ron Ramsden Went Viral On Facebook, and Scored leads…

  We often are too slammed during our busy times of the year to worry about the slow times approaching. […]

Do You Have Business Boundaries…

  Boundaries or Business Tumbleweeds?   What is a Business Tumbleweed, you may be asking? With all the technology, […]

3 Goals To Finish 2016 Strong…

  I’m going to share 3 Goals to set so that you can make sure your finish 2016 strong, […]

How I Found $12,487.50 During Lunch…

  It was mid summer and I had 6 painters working on an exterior paint project. As I was […]

How Ramsden Painting Finds Awesome Customers and Books Them

  It was late Summer in New England and we were booked for two months out which  is not […]

First Step Out of the Bucket

What do you think of this? You’re at the counter one morning at the local paint store, picking up […]

Employee Compensation: How, Why, and How Much

Employee Compensation: How, Why, and How Much I’m going to share my compensation structure for our employees with you, […]

Double Your Wealth, With Just $1 A Day…

  Have you ever heard the financial experts say to pay yourself first? I’m going to explain how we do […]

1 of 3 Ways to Own the 1st Page of Google

When did Noah build the Ark? Before the flood. And like Noah, we too will run out of “dry […]

How to Incentivize Your Team

  We have all been there.  You want more out of your employees than they are willing to provide […]

The Power of Having A Board of Advisors…

    Imagine this:    You are alone on a desert island and some wood washes up on the […]

Your Secret Facebook Sales Team…

  It started about three months ago when I was receiving bookings and requests from people I never heard […]

Paddling against the Wind…

  My wife and I were having a great afternoon.  The day was beautiful, the sun was out and […]

5 Boundaries To Put In Place To Keep Organized And Profitable This Season…

  A month ago the phones were quiet.   Most of the days were manageable and our daily list […]

Is It Time To Work ON Your Business…

  When’s the last time you’ve taken your family on vacation? Is it time to kick the bucket, or […]

Motivating Employees and Crews…

  How do you motivate your employees? The owner leaves the crew at the job site and drives away […]

Tired and Need a Change? Start With the Small Things…

    Your tired of the “same old same old” . You never thought you would still be breaking your […]

How To Be The Luckiest Contractor…

  How you can be the luckiest contractor, but first    We were working on a home in October […]

It’s January, It’s Slow, I’m Broke. Do This…

No, not go skiing. Well not yet at least.  Last year at this time of year you said “this […]

$12 A Week Invested Here, Nets Me $11,440 A Year…

  I did not figure this out myself, and I thought we did not need it. All my crews […]

I Was The Contractor Everyone Forgot About, Until…

  What happened to my customers?   I had been in business for years, staying busy and the phone […]

I Was The Busiest Broke Contractor, But Today…

  I was sitting at the breakfast table at the end of the fall season at 5:30 in the […]

How to Get Noticed for Free

What is going to make the customer remember you? Researchers state, in a person’s day, we see a minimum […]

I Used to Think I Didn’t Need a Website… Here’s What I Think Now

I HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR 14 YEARS AND NEVER HAD A WEBSITE AND DID NOT WANT ONE. All of […]

Ron Ramsden’s Story

It has been 10 fast months since deciding I didn’t want to be “That Painter” I had owned a […]

How To Book Your Spring And Crush It This Winter, At The Same Time

Fall is in the air, the temperature is dipping to the mid 30s at night, 5 weeks left of […]

Save Time, Get Booked Online

I look back since January first till now, my business has taken a 180 degree turn.   I was […]