Winter is here

With the onset of Winter weather, we must remember to “winterize” our property.  This includes making sure that all hoses are disconnected from paint sprayers and pressure washers.  Garden hoses must be disconnected too.  Cover all equipment that isn’t stored in a heated environment.  For gas powered equipment, drain the fuel or add fuel stabilizers to the fuel.  All paints and supplies must be moved indoors.  We will have an occasional freeze, and these will be ruined and then disposed of (haz mat fees).

Remember to pursue all new business avenues.  Answer all phone calls and return all messages.  These bids will be needed for the spring and now is the time to get as many as possible for that time.  All of your free time now should be used to acquire business and goodwill for the spring.

If you have had the foresight to have a secondary income, Good For You!  Take a serious run at it now.  It will pay back ten fold!

the Rains have begun

As is usual for November, the rains have started this weekend.  Thankfully, construction has started to rise off of the floor.  After 2 years of free-fall, this year has been sporadic, but fairly level.  Most of my customers have reported an increase in business over the last few years.  It has been a time of survival.  Most of our competition has closed their doors and/or moved away.

Secondary incomes have saved many of us.  Either a spouse's income or a secondary income of our own.  eXfuze has provided me with such an opportunity.  It has improved my health and taken me out of the “gimpy” lifestyle as well.  Remember though; keep a secondary income, even after your business recovers.  Construction and all of the businesses that are related to it will always have high and low cycles.  They have since I started in 1970 and will forever.  The peaks and valleys are of different highs and lows, but they are still there.  eXfuze even has the potential of exceeding and becoming the larger income within 2 or 3 years.  When the secondary becomes larger than the primary, that’s a cushion!!

Interested in an extra $3000.00 per month?

If I could show you a way that you could start earning an extra $3000 a month in residual income within the next 8 weeks, that had a strong potential to triple over the next few weeks, would that catch your attention?  I have been preaching for years that all of us in construction related jobs need a secondary income to smooth out the valleys.

The energy drink industry is a 9 Billion dollar a year industry, projected by many economists to be a 50 Billion dollar a year industry by the end of this decade. Fifteen percent of all people in the US consume energy drinks on a daily basis. For the 85% who are not yet using them the reason they give most often is that they are all unhealthy. What we have done is create the first ever all natural, healthy energy drink! No added sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no synthetic caffeine and no sodium benzoate! And it tastes GREAT!!  No fooling.  No jitters and No crash.  According to a study reported recently in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, they said that one of our ingredients, green tea extract, had a significant effect on fat oxidation. Now, let me ask you another question. Do you know anyone that uses energy drinks? Do you use energy drinks? Well, would you rather SPEND money using energy drinks or MAKE money using energy drinks?

Now what if I told you that all you had to do to begin earning an extra $3000 dollars a month in residual income within the next 8 weeks is to simply find two people anywhere in the United States to redirect their spending, and instead of consuming an unhealthy energy drink they switch to the only healthy energy drink that provides all natural energy in a whole food base. It is far and away the best tasting energy drink that you have ever tasted. And it is only $1.32 per serving.

 

Enter eXfuze GreenZILLA.  Let me show you how to get started making this kind of money. First, you need to join eXfuze as a distributer and get your replicated website. This allows you to do business all over the world. That will cost you $40. (that is $40.00 per year, with no monthly charges).  Next, you are going to want to get your hands on some product. You need to start with at least one case. There are 4 boxes of 10 bottles, or 40 (2.5oz) bottles in a case. Each bottle cost $3.95. There are 3 servings per bottle. That comes out to $1.32 cents per serving.   A case costs $159.80. So your total cost for getting started would be $199.80. I will now show you how to get all that back in your first month. (In doing so, your energy drinks will be free.)   What do you do with those 40 bottles? You are going to drink one a day (or less), and give 10 (or more) away.  When you give someone a bottle, have them drink some immediately. Then have them listen to one of our live calls or a 4 minute pre-recorded message.  (469-272-4644 – ZILLA  AND 877- 434-1015 nutritional products)  For every ten samples that you give away, a minimum of two people will want to get started with you. If you do this within your first week you will earn a minimum of $60 dollars. In week two, just have them do what you did. In week two you will earn a minimum of $30 dollars. As this process is duplicated, week three will bring you a minimum of $40 dollars. And week 4 will bring you a minimum of $80 dollars. This will bring your total monthly earnings to at least $210 dollars, which more than covers your cost of getting started. AND you have been drinking your energy drink for free!  As you begin week 5, you have no more product left. So what should you do? Buy another case of 40 bottles. And what will you do with them.? Drink one a day and give 10 away. As this process continues to duplicate, in week 5 you will earn over $160 dollars. Week 6 jumps to approximately $500 dollars. Week 7 to approximately $1000 and in week 8 approximately $1,840, for a total of $3,500 in your 2^nd month! And what have you done? You have found two people anywhere in the US to redirect their spending, and begin drinking the healthiest, best tasting, least expensive drink on the market.  They aren’t buying anything new or changing their budget in any way except to be drinking a healthy drink and saving money doing so.  But why stop at two people? When you bring in a third person, your income can go as high as $2,000 dollars a week! A fourth person can get you up to $3,000 dollars a week. A fifth $5,000 dollars a week, a sixth $7,500 a week, and a seventh can get you up to $20,000 A WEEK!!  And yes, it is being done. I spoke to a distributer I know last weekend, that is currently making that amount.

eXfuze EDGE

The energy drink by eXfuze is almost here!  I should have samples the 1st part of October.  This will be a completely HEALTHY energy drink.  And at less cost than the other harmful drinks.

If you would like to receive a sample of the energy drink, email me or call me and let me know.  I will have a sample for you in the showroom.

Updated Website

As of today, the Airless Spray Center website is updated to the new format.  No longer will you have to go to the informational site and then click onto the store site.  They are now all-in-one.  The tabs will take you to the informational pages as well as the category page where all of the parts are listed.  See it now at: www.airlessspraycenter.com/shop. 

With the paring down of the website, not all of the 100’s of parts are listed.  We only have XXX parts online as of this post, but will add more in the future.  If you don’t see the part that you need, call us at 916-457-3111 and we will quote you the price and UPS it right off.  Over the phone, we accept VISA and MasterCard.  On the internet, you can use either of them OR you can also use PayPal and Google Checkout.

the Heat is on

Oh Oh.  dating myself with an old Glen Frye tune from the Miami Vice days.

It seems that we went straight from Winter to Summer.  Spring was maybe 2 or 3 days.  The good news is that the repaint market is now waking up.  There is 4 or 5 years of deferred maintenance waiting to be started.  The prices will still be low for the start of the summer, but as demand grows, so will the bid prices.  Don’t be discouraged by these starting low prices.  Bid everything you can and build up your calendar.  Then start raising your prices, slowly, to where they should be.  There will be quite a bit of repair work that will need to be done.  Don’t underestimate the time that it will take.  Wood trim that is cracked and bare will need to be completely caulked or replaced and primed before finish painting.  Talk to your customers and explain the long term difference between cosmetic paint jobs and professional repairs.  One will look OK for a short time and the other will look good for a long time.

Don’t skimp on material.  The easiest thing to use to cut your costs is thinning out your paint or using really cheap material.  Either of these will come back and bite you in the future.  Paint is the cheapest thing in your bid.  Pile it on to manufacturer’s spec’s.  Your jobs will look better and last longer and send you more referrals.  Referrals are the best jobs to get.  Unless you cut your own throat bidding the previous job, you will be expected to charge accordingly on the referred jobs. This is another reason to avoid bidding cheap.  It is better to bid more and then DELIVER more.  Do all of the extra touches, like painting their address on the curb, painting the address numbers that are on the house so that they really show up.  Paint a corresponding planter box.  Or whatever they have.  Make your service what they remember.  Remember to work for referrals.

Groaning Pains

It looks like construction has stopped it’s freefall and is now leveling out.  Maybe even starting back up, although slowly.  We are starting to see quite a few parts being back-ordered.  It seems that the manufacturers let their stock get quite low.  When they go to reorder, THEIR suppliers have let THEIR stock get quite low and can’t fill the order!  So the supplier can’t get the part to the OEM, who can’t get the part to us……

Some of the suppliers have closed their doors.  So now new suppliers have to be found.  Some of the back-order times are quite long.

So much for the bad news.  The good news is that the painting industry is starting to reawaken.  There is so much deferred maintenance from the past 3 years that when the economy comes completely awake, the business will thrive again.

The contractors that are doing OK, and will always do well, are those that never forgot the fundamentals of business.  ALWAYS return phone calls asap.  ALWAYS bid on all available jobs.  If you are too busy or don’t really want the job, bid it high; but ALWAYS bid everything.

We’ve MOVED

I have now opened the new location.  Our new address is: 3351 Business Drive, Sacramento, Ca. 95820

The web address, phone numbers and emails are still the same.

Our new address is a much better location.  I am in the front corner of the building, easily seen from the street.  I also have a view of the street out my office window.  The footage is less, so I am being forced to be really organized.  Not needing a showroom anymore, that footage wasn’t needed.  I will continue to sell used machines, but only new machines on a prepaid order.

Since Graco has purchased both ASM and Airlessco, they will consolidate into 1 company.  So 1 less parts department wall.  Since SprayTech purchased both Titan and Speeflo, another wall gone.  Binks and HERO are almost defunct, so less walls there too.  So I shrunk the parts department by 1 complete bay and shortened all of the wall from 10 foot long to 8 foot long.  I will now have to reorganize the parts, but will have plenty of room.

eXfuze is still going to be displayed in the office and will have a small display in the shop.  As it grows, it’s counter space will increase…….

Grand Opening at new location

I now have the new address.  As of the 3rd week in February, I will be open at:

3351 Business Dr.  suite #100  Sacramento, California.  95820

It is a total of 6 blocks from the old location.  The Grand Opening will be March 1st, 2010.  I will be between both places from the second week in February to March 1st.  All of my customers will receive a 10% discount from their total invoices, dated Feb 15th to March 31st.  This is to show my appreciation during this moving transition.

Our phone number will remain the same, as will the website and all of the email address’.

eXfuze will still show a presence on the counter and curio display for all of my cross over customers.

on the map above, Business Dr is on the left side of the Little League Park, North of 14th Ave.  between 65th and Power Inn Rd.

map link to our new address: http://www.mapquest.com/mq/6-S73rvmqAUdf0uTkt