How Black Horse Painting Grew from $100K to $600K a Year

The Business

Black Horse Painting has been in business for about four years. Manny keeps the company focused on one market: residential painting only, covering exteriors, interiors and cabinets.

That focus comes with a lot of detail. As Manny puts it, there’s “so much that goes into residential,” and “just interiors alone has so many things.” Every job type has its own scope and line items, and building each estimate from scratch eats the owner’s time.

How They Use DripJobs

Black Horse Painting started on DripJobs two years ago. Manny’s verdict: “it’s been a, man, game changer.” Three things stand out in how he uses it:

• Templates for every kind of residential job — Interiors, exteriors and cabinets each get a template, so a new estimate is a click away instead of a blank page. “We’re able to build templates that we just click it, and it saves so much time.”
• Automated emails — DripJobs “sends a lot of emails” for him, so customer follow-up keeps happening without Manny sitting down to write it.
• A business that runs in the background — In his words, DripJobs “pretty much takes care of my whole business on the background, so it freed up my time.”

The Results

“When we first started, we were about 100,000 per year. Right now, we’re hitting 600,000.”

Six times the revenue, with the owner’s time freed up rather than eaten up. Templates handle the repetitive part of residential estimating, automated emails handle follow-up, and Manny spends his time on the business instead of the paperwork.

Read the full video transcript

“I’m Manny, owner of Black Horse Painting. We’ve been in business about four years now. So we started DripJobs two years ago, and it’s been a, man, game changer. Saves me time, sends a lot of emails, pretty much takes care of my whole business on the background, so it freed up my time.”

“When we first started, we were about 100,000 per year. Right now, we’re hitting 600,000.”

“You could do templates, so we focus on residential only. So much that goes into residential, exteriors, interiors, cabinets. Just interiors alone has so many things, and we’re able to build templates that we just click it, and it saves so much time.”