Vivax Pro Painting

Interior House Painting- Denver

scott — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:11:44 +0000

Are you looking to paint a room, or 3, before the holidays? We’d love to help! After wrapping up our exterior house painting season, we’d like to shift things into the heat and focus on interior paint jobs. Because of that, we’re offering discounts to paint the inside of your home. Whether you’re having company or you want to spruce a room or two up for your significant other, give us a call for a free estimate. We’ll let you know your options and give you the best interior deal of the year. As always, if you are doing the project yourself, we can help as well. Go to You Tube and search Vivax Pro Painting to find our DIY videos. And good luck!

Last Call: Paint Before the Snow Hits

scott — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:53:27 +0000

Each year we preach (for lack of a better word) that homeowners in the Denver area protect their homes for winter! That time has now arrived, believe it or not! The snow has already fallen in the mountains and soon it will along the Front Range. Whether you are painting now or in the Spring, it’s the perfect time to call a few of the best painting contractors and have them come out to take a look. Vivax will be honoring Fall’s prices in the Spring of 2012 but you must get a free estimate now! If you have rotten or damaged boards on your home, those should be taken care of before the snow just rests on them and damages your home even more. Our project planners will happily write you up a woodwork estimate. Take advantage of some of the best painting specials we’ve ever offered!

Offering Consistently Outstanding Contractor Workmanship

scott — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:16:01 +0000

You know the importance of offering outstanding workmanship but why is it so important to consistently do it? This topic branches off our previous post, “Scripting Your Way to Success”. All of these concepts are designed to help you become a referable contractor.

Our Vice President of Production has a great line that he tells his production managers, “Do what you need to do in order to get a few referrals at the end of the job.” In other words, don’t just work to pick up the check from the homeowner; the goal is to get customers to refer their friends and family members that may need work done on their home. If you get those, the check will obviously be coming our way! Our referrals are considered as good as “gold”.

Here are a few ways us painting contractors consistently offer outstanding workmanship:

Pre Job Walk Through

Our project manager will walk around the house with the homeowner pointing out specific areas of concern and confirm project details as well as warranty. Setting clear expectations is the best way to make sure you are providing outstanding service. If you fulfill all the customers’ expectations, then you should be a referable company in their eyes.

Keeping the Crews Happy
Obviously those doing the actual work will have a huge impact on the homeowner and the success of the job. It’s important you work with the crews on a consistent basis in order to get consistent work out of them. You need to treat your crews right and in turn they’ll treat the job and the homeowner with excellent care.

Post Job Walk Through

This is super important because it’s the last thing we do before asking for the “gold”. It’s our opportunity to walk around the house and address all those key areas that we paid extra close attention to. It’s also where we authorize the warranty and make sure there is nothing else we can take care of before leaving.

Vivax Pro Painting is honored to be one of 11 industry experts to have a blog hosted on Service Magic’s web site. This is an installment from there detailing our house painting business and business in general!

Scripting Your Way to Success

scott — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:10:05 +0000

It sounds a little cheesy and a little odd that a house painting contractor would need scripts but trust me when I say it can really help improve your business and the experience clients have!

The goal is to offer consistently amazing customer service and you do that by promising and delivering the same things to each client. And a script will help you do that.

That doesn’t mean sounding like a robot when answering the phone or meeting with a client. The script is designed so that anyone can jump into a conversion and touch on all the right points. Once someone is comfortable hitting all those key points they can tweak the script into what works for them.

When our marketing team trains on how to make outbound calls, they learn from a script we’ve crafted and molded the last few years. The script ensures that we get all the appropriate information for us to be successful at the estimate as well as to excite the homeowner that we will be coming to answer questions and address any concerns they may have. We happen to be a company that doesn’t accept deposits or money until the job is finished. So we make a habit of telling that to our potential clients in the initial conversation to open up those lines of trust.

From the sales process through the job coordination scripts are equally as important, if not more. We need to make sure our sales people are promising things that the production team can deliver upon. After all, “We’re a customer service company that just so happens to be really good at painting houses.”

It’s also important to note that each season (or year or whatever applies to your business) the scripts should be revisited. We’ve had to adjust some things just to stay relevant and continue to exceed customer expectations.

The whole process with the scripts is designed to make our company more referable—that’s the ultimate success for a contractor. The best place to get more business is from happy clientele and in order to do that you must meet or exceed their expectations with awesome customer service. I think we can all agree on that. Growing the business with referrals is what enabled us to take more leads from companies such as ServiceMagic. Scripting our way to success has been a major part in our growth as a company. Now we like to let our clients do the bragging for us and keep those referrals coming!

***Vivax Pro Painting is honored to be one of 11 contractor experts to have a blog hosted on Service Magic’s web site. This is an installment from there detailing our house painting business and business in general!

Denver House Painter helping with home improvement

Hey Paint Guy — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:57:09 +0000

In this video: Jeremiah Owen, President of Vivax Pro Painting, says “Hello” and explains how Vivax Pro is here to help in the search for any home improvement. Just ask us on the Vivax Pro Painting Facebook Page and we will be sure give you an answer you can trust! You can also have a look at our Home Improvement Page for Colorado.

Denver Painter Hosts Vegas Sweepstakes

Hey Paint Guy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:48:22 +0000

Stick with what works, right? Vivax Pro Painting was built on referrals (see the article in the Denver Business Journal) and to this day we still STRONGLY believe in them as a key to growth and success. Your honest and thoughtful referrals are more appreciated than you know. That’s why us Denver Painters decided to reward you even more than we already do for more referrals!

We’re giving away 3 TRIPS TO VEGAS in Winter of 2011 and we want YOU to have a shot at winning. It’s as easy as telling your friends about your Vivax Pro Painting experience and then you going to our Facebook Page (Hit the “Like” button first) and then enter your referrals.

What you win:

2 Roundtrip airline tickets from Denver to Las Vegas
Hotel for 2 nights stay for two people (to be determined)
2 Tickets to one show (to be determined)

Main Rules:

Everytime your referral turns into a job, you get another raffle ticket in the drawing
3 winners: 
1 for the contestant who has the most referrals that turn into jobs overall
 1 Raffle Drawing from North Denver Area
 1 Raffle Drawing from South Denver Area

No matter what, YOU GET $50 for the first two, and $100 after that for every referral that turns into a job

www.vivaxpropainting.com/vegas

But Wait! There are other ways to win the contest!!!

If we have painted your house and you are willing to let us show off our work by putting a lawn sign in your yard you recieve one entry for every week the lawn sign is there. You may leave it all summer to get up to 30 entries in the raffle. Call Logan, VP of Production at Vivax Pro Painting, 303-472-2020

William Shatners Moving America Forward

Hey Paint Guy — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:54:51 +0000

Jeremiah Owen, President of Vivax Pro which is a denver painting company, was recently invited to be a guest on William Shatners Moving America Forward television program.

Vivax Pro Painters in Grand Junction CO

Hey Paint Guy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:36:57 +0000

Known as the best painters in Denver Vivax Pro Painting has decided to take their services to Grand Junction, Colorado. Bob Owen, father of Vivax President Jeremiah Owen, will head up the branch of painters in Grand Junction CO. All the same values that the company has instilled in Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Parker, Thornton, Denver, and the entire metro area will be offered in the largest city in Western Colorado. Vivax’s long-term vision has always been to “continue to be a company that people desire to work with. We grow from within and produce talented managers and sales people who go on to do great things. We are a company that breeds loyal clients who actively generate referral business, and we will continue to give back to the community.” That community now extends to Grand Junction! Check out the web site for a complete list of services, blog articles and much more! For all you social media lovers, you can check out the Vivax Facebook page at Vivax Facebook page. There are pictures of our work, helpful articles and even customer reviews.

How to Remove Wallpaper

Hey Paint Guy — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:22:32 +0000

Is that wallpaper staring at you every day begging to be taken down? If so, you’ve come to the right place to learn how to get it out! You’re obviously going to want to do this without hurting the drywall…or yourself. Some people will tell you that you just need to wet the paper (which softens the glue), find a seam and strip it off. You’ll want to add patience to that process. Step 1: Go out and purchase some wallpaper removal solvent. Any home improvement store will have this. Then grab a wallpaper scraper to go with it. The scraper will put small holes in the wall and allow the solution to get to work. A putty knife and warm water will complete your list of tools. Step 2: Test a small area on the wall. Try and remove the wallpaper by stripping it and if it doesn’t remove easily, apply the wallpaper removal solution. Leave on for roughly 30 minutes or read the bottle. This should at least remove the paper Step 3: Get rid of the glue. This is where the wallpaper scraper comes into play. Remember to only do one sheet of wallpaper at a time if there are other layers. There may be a few small holes due to the scraper. Spackle as needed and sand the walls to make sure the surfaces are even and ready to paint! This shouldn’t be a hard process but it is time consuming. Your walls will look a whole lot better after a pro paint job! On our home page you can sign up for free to get access to our full series ofhouse painting videos!

Using Social Media for Small Businesses

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:04:41 +0000

Most everyone is doing it…and you should be too! We recently had the opportunity to be panelists at the Small Business Heroes Tour and talk about social media for small business. We came away with two things from audience feedback. 1) A lot of small business owners think that it’s too time consuming to set up and 2) They don’t understand how it can directly help their business. The most important thing to remember about social media is that it’s all about starting or building relationships. You have potential clients or current clients that you can contact with on a personal level–on a platform that they trust. One recent client of ours posted a testimonial as a status update saying how great their house looked from our paint job. Two of their friends posted below it saying they wanted our info for when they needed to paint. That’s the ultimate testimonial!!! Now, dealing with the time concern… Trust me, you have the time. It takes roughly 15-20 minutes to set up an account, and each day 3-5 minutes to show people that you have an active profile. You can absolutely spend a ton more time if you’ve got it but 3 minutes/ day can do the trick! TweetDeck is a resource that will help you manage a couple social media sites at once. Vivax Pro Painting set up a profile AND business profile. You can friend us or “Like” our page. We’ve done this to create a platform for free home improvement tips. We’ll be offering those up in addition to painting tidbits You’ll soon be able to see customer feedback, discussions and videos there on our Facebook. Before you start, outline your goals. Maybe you want to gain 2 new clients per month. Maybe you’re just looking to put your logo and company in front of potential clients. Whatever the case may be, define it and stick to it! If you want more advice, head to facebook.com/heypaintguy or twitter.com/heypaint guy. And let us know what you’re experience with social media is and what has worked for you. We’re all in the same boat when it comes to the sea of social media!