Painting Business – Paint Job Estimating Software

A lot of people my age are PC shy, in other words they are afraid they will break the PC by using it. On the other side of the seesaw are the younger people entering the market place that never knew a world that didn’t have a PC. Most kids today have confidence and experience around PC’s; because, they use them in school, the library and at home, from their early years.

To those smiling bright PC genius’, just skip the next part.

Because time waits for no one, I want to say to people who are PC shy, “get over it” they aren’t going to go away, and you might just find this new tool makes your job easier. Just as we converted several years ago from a miter box saw that used a hand saw to the laser guided compound miter box saws that we use today, we can now just open our minds to the PC as a labor saving tool.

A computer will save you time and be more accurate in creating estimates.

You can craft your own software if you are so inclined, it takes quite a bit of work and the learning curve is there, but once the software is done it can save you a lot of time, just on the calculations alone.

Having tried some very expensive programs and found that they do some things semi-automatically, like add a photo to the estimate, or the ability to use the software in a notebook PC, I haven’t gotten excited enough to make the big change or to pay the price in dollars or in spending a lot of energy in learning new software.

By: P E Cavanaugh