E104: How To Win At Entrepreneurship By Making Everyone Else Win

Eric Barstow is the founder of Painting Business Pro, and is a certified painting and contracting expert. Even before his business took off, he had already been sharing his knowledge, training and mentoring college students to prepare them for a successful career in the future. With nearly a decade of experience in entrepreneurship, he is now a leading figure in the paint industry.

In this episode, we talked about painting, contracting, entrepreneurship…

Show notes

• Introducing Eric Barstow. [1:17]
• Eric’s goals, and what he has been up to in the last ten years. [2:31]
• The value of loyalty and keeping a great team of people. [8:12]
• Why you should invest in your employees. [10:19]
• Why lead generation and delivering excellent service should go hand in hand. [14:10]
• The cost of lead generation—and why it’s worth it. [18:45]
• The subject of cost-cutting, and why you shouldn’t be chasing top line revenue over bottom line revenue. [27:40]
• Helpful advice for early-career home service entrepreneurs. [33:51]
• How establishing a reward system and incentivizing reviews can boost employee performance. [40:32]
• Focusing on delivering an 11/10 service experience. [46:07]
• The importance of having the right systems in place. [51:17]
• More information on Eric’s training strategy. [57:45]
• How to form the right team to take you to success. [1:03:50]
• Three books on Eric’s reading list. [1:05:01]
• How to get more information about Eric. [1:10:10]
• Eric’s most important piece of advice to home service business owners. [1:13:04]

Resources And People Mentioned:

• [email protected]
• Website: Painting Business Pro
• Home Advisor
• Angie’s List
• BirdEye
• The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin
• Sam Taggart
• LearnDash
• Tableau
• Power BI
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
• The One Thing by Gary Keller
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy