All Posts by Steve Burnett

How To Close Estimates on the Spot for Painting Contractors…

  Who started the whole, “Getting 3 estimates” thing anyway? I used to get so discouraged when I thought […]

What Is Your Time Really Worth?

  I find myself solving problems every day, at work and at home.  It’s what us contractors do, solve […]

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 To Get Estimates Booked From Your Website…

  Do you dislike playing phone tag with leads? How about doing the “Calendar Shuffle” and trying to find […]

Matt The Painter’s Story…

  Prior to finding Steve Burnett, and the DYB System I was doing ok. Business was growing from year […]

3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Buy The Boat…

  Summer has been good! Long days, profitable jobs, and you are feeling confident about the fall being booked […]

How Facebook Has Become Our Main Source For Leads…

    “It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”  – Unknown   As the baby boomer generation […]

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 […]

3 Keys To Increasing Your Close Ratio Today…

    It’s peak season and you have more leads are coming in than you can provide estimates for […]

Top 3 Mistakes Leaders Make and Lose Their Best Guys…

    The 3 mistakes leaders make and lose their best guys, but first, What could be worse than not […]

7 Habits To Double Your Results Faster…

  7 Habits To Double Your Results Faster but first, What is it you want or need to go for, […]

How to Double Your Business in 9 Steps…

There’s a definite process for reaching $1,000,000.00 in sales. It’s not easy to come by, it’s not easy to […]

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, […]

Rhymes With This for More Sales and Better Hires…

    Personality… Types. You have one and if we’re going to Double Your Business “DYB”, then you must know […]

How To Get Your Employees To Take 100% Ownership…

  How do we get our employees to take ownership? I’ll get to that, but first… I want to share […]

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 […]

Michael Craine’s Stroy

    Steve, hope you and your family are doing good. I’m not very active on the DYB community […]

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 […]

Close More Sales On The Spot With This Script…

    Wouldn’t it be great to close jobs on the spot? Have you ever wanted to try but […]

Motivating Employees and Crews…

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

Craig Armstrong’s Story…

    I started my painting business in 2001, just as I finished college, so I’ve been in business […]

3 Steps To Prove You Are Everything Your Prospect Wants…

  Painting contractors are guilty until proven innocent, at least that’s what it feels like sometimes when at your […]

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 […]

Finding Your Key Employee, But Where?

    Many of us are lucky to find our “Key Employee” early on in the building of our […]

Danny Arey’s Story…

I have a question directly for you. But first, let me tell you a story…   I left the […]

How To Be The Luckiest Contractor…

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

Jobs Not Going Smoothly? Try Setting It Up Right From The Start…

  Setting expectations is one of the key components for any business to succeed. How can you build an […]

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 […]

A Laugh That Won The Job, Via This Voicemail Greeting…

    I had a ton of missed calls, but no messages.  I needed the work; why were there […]

$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 […]

Business Slow? Speed It Up Quick With These 3 Easy Steps…

  Is business slow right now? Are you waiting for your past clients to refer you?  Waiting by the […]

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 […]

Cut Your Job Management Time In Half With This Program

I’ve always been a fan of software, being able to leverage my time and increasing net profits. Here at […]

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 […]

Just $250 Into This “Club”, Resulted In $24,400.00 In Sales…

  The DYB Café is an interregnal part of building your business for less $$$, unlike traditional forms of advertising. […]

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 […]

3 Strategies For Getting More Calls And Winning Bids

How frustrating is it when you present your proposals and are told something along the lines of “Oh, you’re […]

5 Ways To Generate Instant Leads This Winter

From all the pictures on Facebook, it looks like the snow has fallen. It’s going on 11 years since […]

Jeff Sommers’ Story

The dream of a paperless business… I’ve always been fond of technology and how it can improve our lives. It […]

Steal My Video Testimonial Process That Helped me Get A Close Ratio of 84.5%

I had just arrived at the site of a prospective paint job and was talking to them regarding their […]

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 […]

The First Simple Strategy To Online Domination

‘You gotta eat’ …And so does your business! Local online leads can help make your business large and in charge! […]

3 Time Management Habits To Double Your Productivity…

    We live in a distracted culture. Everybody and everything is fighting for our attention.   If we’re […]

This Makes Following Up, Simple To Do

Following up after you present a proposal is one of the biggest opportunities to increase business, but hardly ever […]

How to Get Out of the Field

We can’t be out in the field forever. If we are fortunate to avoid injury after so many years, […]

NOW is the Time to Position Yourself to Finish the Exterior Season Strong & Profitable

Can you believe that August is already upon us?     What a great summer it has been so […]

How To Get To The Next Level

Are your goals to buy a bigger house or a new car? Maybe take your family on a great vacation? […]

3 Strategies You Must Do NOW, to Stay Busy This Winter

Does your company have a slow season? Would you like to know how to stay booked solid through every […]

Schedule meetings in seconds all within Gmail.

Time management, productivity, and flat out getting things done are all very important to me. So when I come […]

The Cafe

This will cost you exactly $37.00.   That’s the “money side”.   Now For The Value Side…     In exchange […]

How often do you hear, “Your Price is too high.”

You are not alone. In fact, this is one of the most common questions or complaints I see across […]

How to Charge What You Are Worth

Are you winning the fight, but losing the war? When I started my painting company back in Michigan, I […]

The Most Important Part of Closing The Sale

Closing the sale? I know what you are thinking. Ah, Steve, your book is called “How To Double Your […]

5 Sales Habits To Double Your Business

One of the lessons in my pursuit of achievement that has taken me the longest to learn is that […]

50 Free Citations for Your Website to Generate Even More SEO Juice

You want your site to be on the first page of Google, right? Right! List your business of these […]

A Quick 2 Step SEO Self Audit

Stephen Covey taught us, First Things First,  so I’ll make this clear straight out of the gate. You do not […]

“No”, Your Way To Success

I was about 22 years old, and back in Michigan when a friend invited me to a Sunday school […]

Can You Trust Your Employees?

Can you Trust Your employees? I’ll explain what I mean in just a minute, but first, if you know […]

How to Find Good Help

I don’t know what the talking heads are saying on TV or the radio, frankly, because I stopped watching […]

Ask Steve ß Show Episode 9: How To Get Your Team On Board

Hello and welcome to the Ask Steve B Show Episode nine and I am your host Steve Burnett author […]

How to make the Front Page of Newspaper Without Buying an Ad

While grabbing a coffee at Starbucks, which I try to be doing as often as I can, they let […]

Should You Use 1-800-PAINTING for Your Painting Company?

Danny writes in: Good Morning Steve. Can you explain the benefits you received by purchasing the rights to the […]

5 Steps to finding a FREE Business or Life Coach

We can read all the books in the world and still have questions. Believe me, I read a book […]

It was like a punch to the gut, but I owned it.

5 years ago, this quote ROCKED my world! I was sitting at my desk reading John Jantsch’s book, The […]