Category Archives for "All-Star Team"

DYB Podcast EP90 Tips for Hiring All-Stars

DYB Podcast EP90 Tips for Hiring All-Stars SUMMARY: The DYB Podcast is BACK! Steve, April, Seth, and Ron take […]

Painting Contractors: What To Do About Employees That End Up Hurting Your Culture

Painting Contractors: What To Do About Employees That End Up Hurting Your Culture Do you have one of those […]

How to Manage a Busy Production Calendar

How to Manage a Busy Production Calendar Managing the chaos! It is so busy, spring has sprung, the weather […]

How to Conduct Convenient Interviews That Will Save You Time

How to Conduct Convenient Interviews That Will Save You Time Hiring is on our mind these days, the seasons […]

Why You MUST Have a Company Vehicle Policy

Why You MUST Have a Company Vehicle Policy Do you have a policy regarding your company vehicles? I want […]

Do This Instead of Trying to Control Every Aspect of Your Company

Do This Instead of Trying to Control Every Aspect of Your Company Hi there, Greg here from DYB Coach, […]

What to Do When One of Your Painters Make a Mistake

What to Do When One of Your Painters Make a Mistake Hi Guys, Greg here from DYB. Today I […]

How to Teach Your Painters Accountability

How to Teach Your Painters Accountability Hi Guys, Greg here from DYB Coach. I wanted to just take a […]

Do Your Crew-Leaders Call You Too Often?

Do Your Crew-Leaders Call You Too Often? Hi there, Greg here from DYB Coach. I wanted to share a […]

How I Built Company Culture With a Klondike Bar

How I Built Company Culture With a Klondike Bar What do Klondike Bars have to do with painting? For […]

What to Do When Asked, “Can You Throw That in for Free?”

What to Do When Asked, “Can You Throw That in for Free?” “Can you do that for free?” Or, […]

Painting Contractors: Know When to Say “No”

Painting Contractors: Know When to Say “No” Hi there, Greg here from DYB Coach, and today I want to […]

How to React to Customer Complaints

How to React to Customer Complaints Has this ever happened to you? You work on the job site or […]

How to Find the Quality Employees

How to Find the Quality Employees I found the perfect employee. And I am going to tell you where […]

How to Find All-Star Team Members that Will Help Grow Your Company

How to Find All-Star Team Members that Will Help Grow Your Company Are you ready to hire your first […]

Most Contractors Forget to Do This Before Signing Contracts

Most Contractors Forget to Do This Before Signing Contracts Hi there, I’m Greg from DYB Coach, also Green Pro […]

Contractors: How to Handle Bad Google Reviews

Contractors: How to Handle Bad Google Reviews Bad Google reviews; we don’t want to get them but occasionally we […]

The Importance of Working ON Your Business Instead of IN Your Business

The Importance of Working ON Your Business Instead of IN Your Business Do you work for your business or […]

Here’s How Your Social Media Could Affect Your Business in a Negative Way

Here’s How Your Social Media Could Affect Your Business in a Negative Way Social Media… is it helping you, […]

Commercial Contractors: How to Get Additional Work Approved so There’s Zero Miscommunication

Commercial Contractors: How to Get Additional Work Approved so There’s Zero Miscommunication Hey guys, Greg Miller here from Green […]

Commercial Painting Contractors, Do This to Get Paid on Time

Commercial Painting Contractors: Do This to Get Paid on Time Hey guys, Greg here from Green Pro Painting, Greenville, […]

Offer Your Services as a Charitable Donation Through Paint it Forward

Offer Your Services as a Charitable Donation Through Paint it Forward Contributions and charitable giving. How many times are […]

How to Maintain Outstanding Culture with both Employees and Sub-Contractors

How to Maintain Outstanding Culture with both Employees and Sub-Contractors Employees and Sub-Contractors; Do you have both? How do […]

Implement This So That Employees Know Exactly What Is Required Of Them for a Raise

Implement This So That Employees Know Exactly What Is Required Of Them for a Raise Oh no! One of […]

How to Give Bonuses When Not Bidding by Hourly Rate

How to Give Bonuses When Not Bidding by Hourly Rate Hello everybody; Employee bonuses, and a question that just […]

How to Do a Group Interview

How to Do a Group Interview We recently ran a “Help-wanted” ad, looking for retail workers as well as […]

How To Find All-Star Painters During the Summer

How To Find All-Star Painters During the Summer Are you hiring in the middle of summer and there is […]

5 Low Cost Benefits That Will Attract All-Star Painters

5 Low-Cost Benefits That Will Attract All-Star Painters Busy! Busy! Busy! It’s midsummer, who’s looking for help out there? […]

How and What Tasks to Delegate to a Virtual Assistant to Get Your Time Back and Make More Profit

How and What Tasks to Delegate to a Virtual Assistant to Get Your Time Back and Make More Profit […]

You Are The Average of Your 5 Closest Friends

Who do you hang out with? Who are your buddies? Who are you going to call when you want […]

11 Steps to Turn Your Crew Into a Team

11 Steps to Turn Your Crew Into a Team So you have a painting crew? But could you go […]

Here’s How to Make Your Hiring Ad Eye-Catching to Millennials

Here’s How to Make Your Hiring Ad Eye-Catching to Millennials Boy have I got a hiring update for you… […]

Not Having This Insurance Could Cost You Your Business

Not Having This Insurance Could Cost You Your Business Painting contractors ask me all the time “Do I need […]

Where to Find All-Star College Hires

Ready to hire some college kids for the summer? You could probably use the help, so I’ll tell you […]

Insurances Every Painting Contractor Needs

Insurances Every Painting Contractor Needs Business Insurance… Do you have the right business insurance? Do you have enough? Do […]

Painting Contractor How to Successfully Onboard a New Hire

Congrats! You’re hiring someone! Maybe it’s your first employee since you’ve been out of the field. Now… what are […]

Painting Contractor Saves $12,500 During Lunch

Do you want to know how I saved $12,500 at lunch? See if you can relate to this… You […]

Painting Contractor 11 Interview Questions for Hiring an All-Star Part 1

Are you ready to hire? How many times have you made that mistake where the person you hired didn’t […]

Painting Contractors: 11 Interview Questions for Hiring an All-Star Part 2

Painting Contractors: 11 Interview Questions for Hiring an All-Star Part 2 We went through 1-6 previously, click here to […]

10 Things to Consider When Hiring Your First Employee

Are you ready to hire that first employee? I mean are you really ready to hire that first employee? […]

Painting Business Owner Shares How Much He Pays His Painters

Shhhh… I am going to tell you a secret, but don’t tell anybody else! I want to talk about […]

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 […]

Top 5 Reasons All-Star Employees Leave (and how you can stop it…)

Employee Turnover…ugh! It can kill ya… or it feels that way… Here are 5 major reasons employees leave: Lack […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

How to Get Honest Feedback From Customers to Improve Your Customer Service

How to Get Honest Feedback From Customers to Improve Your Customer Service Many times after we are finished with […]

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 […]

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 […]

Here’s what to do when a key employee quits

Have you ever had one of your best employees quit? I did, last summer after 8 years on my team. […]

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 […]

Investing in Your “All-Star Team”, 7 Proven Methods to Keep Key employees…

  I just hired a new crew leader and I’m super excited! I can already tell this guy has a […]

7 Steps To Hiring An Admin Person For Your Painting Company

  It’s the beginning of the new year and we are already busy. The phone is ringing, YCBM is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

YES! An ABA That Changes Lives and DYB…

  When someone implements with success, it always makes us smile, especially when it’s one of our DYB members… […]

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 […]

Formula for the Most Productive Team Meetings

    As you are bringing on new team members, are you holding weekly company meetings? Are they something you […]

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 […]

How to Incentivize Your Team

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

Kurt and Jenn’s Story

  In the dark days of November 2008, my wife Jennifer and I made a life changing decision.   […]

The Power of Having A Board of Advisors…

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

Motivating Employees and Crews…

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

Finding Your Key Employee, But Where?

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

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 […]

Exponential Growth By Knowing Your WHY

“I want to grow. I just don’t know if I want it as badly as I want to breathe,” […]

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, […]

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 […]