Marketing, business coach, painting contractor,

Four things you can do in the next five minutes that will impact your business in a positive way for free or close to it. 

I am Ron Ramsden and I am a DYB coach and I’m also a painting contractor is Northern Massachusetts.

The first thing you can do is send a note card.

Send a thank you card to someone you might have worked for or you are able to give a proposal to.

Or someone you haven’t been in touch with in a while but they are a really good customer or they were a good customer.

You’ve been silent and they have been silent.

Send them a card and say, “sorry we haven’t been in touch, we are here if you need us.”

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In that one, you can put a little business card in it.

The other one, they already know who you are, you don’t need a business card.

It’s going to cost you a thank you card; it’s going to cost you a stamp.

No. 2 call a customer that you worked for last year, maybe it’s an exterior paint job that you had finished.

It’s about the year anniversary.

Tell them you are just checking on the job and you would like to do a walk around with them.

This will get you in front of them again, you can walk and you can actually talk and you might possibly get more business out of it.

No. 3 Have you friended any of your customers on Facebook.

Well, send a couple of your customers a friend request and when you are working on their house, take a picture of the exterior of the beautiful room or the interior and tag them on it.

This way all their friends are going to see that you are working in their house and you’ll get a little more exposure from that.

No. 4 What’s your relationship with your employees?

A long time ago I really didn’t associate with my employees.

They were employees, I was the boss and that’s it.

Well, over the past couple of years I became friends with some of my employees.

Not that we hang out together but I know what’s going on in their lives.

Take two minutes and talk to each one of the employees, not in a row.

Walk around the job site, chat, find out what they are doing this weekend.

Maybe find out what they are doing on a holiday coming up.

Find out how their kids are doing.

Show some care and they are going to show it ten times back.

Those are four free tips.

I am Ron Ramsden and I am a DYB coach and I’m also a painting contractor in Northern Massachusetts.

Helping contractors work on their business so they don’t have to work in the business.

About the Author

As many of you know, my journey has been one of grit, grace, and transformation. At 19, I was a high school dropout, single father, and struggling paint contractor in Michigan. I later moved to Florida, where I faced both personal and professional hardships. With nothing left to lose, I turned to prayer—and was blessed with a relentless hunger to learn. I devoured books, attended seminars, and discovered better ways to streamline and grow my business—even through the Great Recession (and yes, I did hit the wife lottery along the way!). In 2014, I published How To Double Your Business and later sold the painting business, launching a new chapter: coaching others to grow their businesses. For the past 10 years, I’ve dedicated myself to helping business owners scale through the DYB System, while also drawing from frameworks like EOS, Scaling Up, and The Four Disciplines of Execution. Yet something was still missing—something more adaptive, integrated, and complete. Then I found Pinnacle. After months of research and interviews with other Guides, I joined Pinnacle. Their tools and strategies have exceeded every expectation. Now, as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help leadership teams implement a custom-tailored operating system that draws from the best in the industry—but flexes with your unique business. It’s a dynamic, proven approach to achieve clarity, momentum, and lasting growth. I’m no longer taking on any more 1:1 coaching clients… Instead, I now specialize in working with visionary business owners who are ready to get their leadership teams aligned—around a clear vision, a focused strategy, and an actionable execution plan. With the tools and process I now have as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help turn alignment into momentum, and momentum into results. If your business is growing—but your leadership team isn’t fully rowing in the same direction—let’s talk.