Nick May joins Craig Bundren in this episode of The Chromatic Podcast. Nick and Craig talk about the painting business, and Nick shares what they do at Pro Painter Network.
Title: Nick May | Pro Painter Network
In 1999 Nick May started a painting business, Walls by Design, and over the years he has worked with a lot of interior designers. Many of them have been good designers, but often time, their business skills were a bit lacking. In 2013, Nick started a series of live events in Denver with a handful of companies to educated designers on the business of interior design. They would host lunch and learns and bring in a speaker. His hope was to help them grow their businesses and in turn, they might use Walls by Design for their painting needs.
In 2014, Nick married this idea with another passion of mine...podcasting. He launched ‘The Chaise Lounge Podcast’ with the hopes to expand his impact on the interior design community nationally. Little did Nick know that they would soon be downloaded and listened to in over 100 countries and become one of the top interior design podcasts on iTunes.
In 2016, he was asked to start covering markets and live events for interior designers… The Chaise Lounge hit the road! This has to lead to increased exposure and network into the larger interior design community, and he has now interviewed some of the biggest names in interior design.
JOIN NICK MAY AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:
00:47 - Coming up with, with, with all the new, exciting, different things that the ideas
01:34 - They started that podcast like three years ago
02:01 - He remembers being in college and going down to Kinko's
02:47 - He started podcasting, eight or nine years ago. And nobody knew what the heck podcasting was
03:40 - A mix of entrepreneurs that they would read about
04:22 - Got lots of sponsorship traveled the world, went to Spain and Italy through that podcast
05:29 - He ran a painting business all through college
06:11 - What the hell is he going to do the rest of his life?
07:18 - He remembers all the tricks of the trade from painters
07:32 - That's how he got into the painting business.
19:50 - They’re doing things that haven't been done in our industry
20:40 - His wife told him in the conversations with him sometimes are torture
21:10 - There are too many, too many ideas
21:55 - They’ve really created something that's affordable
22:58 - You want to call the crazy time that we're in
23:53 - Break-even is acceptable, but there's an opportunity out there
24:29 - Everybody's chasing the same skinny rabbit
25:09 - Hi is actually going to start pulling all these triggers for these things
26:03 - Traction has been pushed in front of his face and, um, and scaling up
27:33 - All of a sudden he was afforded the opportunity
37:17 - His first introduction to a book that was teaching about business
37:48 - They actually came up with the idea to do a virtual conference
38:38 - His whole story together in one place
39:24 - He would love to do a book with Gary
40:22 - Until some other problem shows up
40:47 - Like when you're the guy it's like, you're the worst boss
41:33 - Because they have systems and processes
42:17 - Freedom to handle those problems
43:09 - Bob is the oldest one that works for Nick
44:05 - Has has already given you the solution
44:50 - They want to save the world for everybody
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