Painting Company here: Employees or Subs?
My Texas painting company has been operating with employees since we started. We offer benefits, WC, of course pay taxes, etc. Employees are expensive. Strangely enough, I have also found employee...
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GREAT QUESTION!!
We ran an employee based model for just about 3-years and until we pivoted to a sub-contractor model....
It took us that time to really figure out what would work best with trying a different mix over that 3 years.
As we scaled from 110 jobs the first year with an additional 60 monthly maintenance member visits to, 440 jobs and an additional 875 monthly maintenance member visits 2 years later, the ONLY way we could compete or keep up with the demand, was to build new systems/processes to find, hire and retain new team members.
We could then run the business from the office by mixing that with automations and integrations with Jobber. I sold both vans with ALL tools inside a few months later. The business scaled past seven figures while giving us our life, time and profits back. True story.
Don't be afraid to try something out of the box and/or be judged by other companies, people or customers.
We have been successfully receiving 5-Star reviews for 6 consecutive years now. 3 of those years I've never even been to one of those projects.
