For Perth painters
Websites for Perth painters, built to win the quote comparison
Painting is the trade where the customer gets three quotes almost every single time. You will not always be the cheapest. What you can be is the one who answered fastest and followed up, which wins more jobs than price does.
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Why missed calls hit painters particularly hard
Painting is the most price-compared trade in residential work. Almost every domestic job goes out to three quotes, the customer is comparing numbers on a page, and the work itself looks similar in every quote. That sounds like a race to the bottom, and it is, for anyone who competes only on the number.
What actually decides most painting jobs is responsiveness and follow-up. Two of the three painters take four days to send the quote, and one of those never follows it up at all. The customer is not really choosing the cheapest, they are choosing the one who made the process feel easy and who was still in the conversation when they decided. That is a systems problem, not a pricing problem, which is good news because systems are fixable.
What a normal week looks like. Steady residential enquiries year-round with a lift in spring, and a distinct pre-sale rush from people painting a house before it goes on the market, who are in a genuine hurry.
What that costs you, in your numbers
The arithmetic is the same for every trade, only the job value changes. Missed calls a month, times what a job is worth, times the share of those callers who would actually have booked.
A typical painter job in Perth runs somewhere between $600 and $20,000, so call the everyday one $3,200. Ten missed calls a month, and say 30 per cent of those people would have booked:
10 × $3,200 × 0.30 = $9,600 a month, or $115,200 a year.
Those figures are estimates, not a survey. We have not measured Perth painters and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Put your own numbers in the calculator and see what your version says.
Ten missed calls a month is roughly one every second working day, which most one-van operations pass before smoko on a Monday. And 30 per cent is deliberately cautious: plenty of missed calls are suppliers, wrong numbers and people who were never going to book.
The number that matters is not the annual one, it is whether catching a single extra job covers the cost. At $3,200 a job, it does, with room to spare.
What a painter's website actually has to do
Most trade websites are built to look professional. That is not the same as being built to win work, and for painters specifically the difference comes down to a handful of things.
- Separate interior, exterior and roof or specialist work, because they are different searches and different customers
- Show before-and-after photography, since a finished wall on its own does not communicate anything
- Be clear about preparation, because prep is where the quality difference lives and where cheap quotes hide
- Set expectations on how fast a quote arrives, which is a promise your competitors are not making
- Put reviews prominently, because a painter with recent detailed reviews wins the three-quote comparison
None of that is exotic. It is just what happens when the site is designed around the person arriving on it rather than around a template that was originally built for a consultancy.
A site built this way, that you can click through
Rather than describe it, here is one. This is a design from our gallery, built for exactly this trade. Open it on your phone, which is where nearly all of your customers will see yours.
Demo template
Ashgrove Painting
A painting site that separates interior, exterior and specialist work, and uses before-and-after photography to show what preparation buys.
Ashgrove Painting is a design from our template gallery, not a client. The business is invented; the site is real and you can click through every page of it. Yours would be built on the same bones with your name, your photos and your trade.
What you get, in plain terms
One monthly price covers three things. We do not sell them separately, because a website with nothing behind it is a brochure and automation pointing at a bad site is money into a hole.
01
The website
Interior, exterior and specialist work separated, before-and-after photography, and a plain explanation of your preparation, which is where you actually beat the cheap quote.
02
The text-back
The enquiry that rings out while you are up a ladder gets an immediate reply. In a trade where the customer is ringing three painters, first response is most of the game.
03
The reviews
Job completion triggers the review request. Recent, detailed reviews are what let you hold your price against a cheaper quote instead of dropping to match it.
It is $299 a month. Your first month is free, there is no setup fee, and it is month to month with no lock-in. If it is not making you money you should not be paying for it, and cancelling takes one email. The full pricing is here, including what happens to the site if you leave.
There is also a change guarantee with actual teeth. Send us a change and if it is not live within two business days of us having what we need, that month is 25 per cent off. Four changes a month, one at a time.
Questions painters ask
I lose jobs on price. Will a website change that?
Not on its own, and anyone who says otherwise is selling. What changes it is being first to respond, getting the quote out same day, and having enough recent reviews that you are visibly not the risky option. The site supports that; the text-back and the review automation are the parts doing the work.
Most of my quotes just go quiet. Can anything be done about that?
That is the single most common thing in painting, and it is why the quote follow-up add-on exists: a polite spaced sequence until they book or say no. It is quoted per job and it is not in the standard plan. It also works, because most quotes do not die on price, they die in silence.
Do I need separate pages for interior and exterior?
Yes. They are different searches, different considerations and often different customers. One page called Services covering both ranks for neither and answers nobody's actual question.
How does the review automation handle a job that went badly?
You control when the request goes out and you can hold one back. Nobody should be automating a review request to a client who is unhappy, and any system that does it regardless of the outcome will eventually cost you a one-star review you asked for.
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See it work before you talk to anyone
Ring 0468 001 644, let it ring out, then hang up. The text you get back is the same one your customers would get. It is a demo line, so nobody will answer.