How Painting Franchises Stay Profitable Year-Round
November 14, 2025
Seasonal slowdowns don’t have to stop your success. Discover how Klappenberger & Son franchisees plan ahead, market smarter, and stay profitable all year long.
-Alvin Toffler
Technology has changed the world for hundreds of years but not so much in the painting and handyman business. Most home service companies do not use the technology that exists
How do I know this?
Because we all know that contacting someone to work at your house or business is a pain, call five painters, and one or two will call you back.
On the other hand, call five restaurants for a pizza delivery, and you will get five pizzas in about 30 minutes.
Klappenberger & Son has changed the experience customers receive.
Our system is designed to be easy to use and very effective. Using our CRM and infrastructure will aid in the following:
Lower overhead
higher profits
Higher close rate
Better customer experience
Fewer responsibilities and less stress
Our user-friendly technology reduces your workload and stress while improving the customer experience.
Back in the day, before I had anything except Microsoft Word, I had to rely on my memory and scrapes of paper on a close pin.
Today we have a unique estimating software system that calculates the hours, materials, and expected profit.
The best part about our estimating platform is that it takes no previous painting experience. We can quickly teach you how to measure a house and give the customer correct estimates in about 30 minutes.
The quick turnaround will help you close jobs.
If the customer is not anxious to make a decision, don’t worry, our CRM system will send emails and texts to the customer.
Our CRM system is incorporated directly with our proposal software—no more handwriting notes and forgetting to follow up.
At Klappenbereger & Son, we understand the importance of always being available to our clients.
We have partnered with a reliable third-party call center to ensure you never miss a call.
Whether you’re busy giving an estimate or cheering on your child at their soccer game, the call center operates 24/7.
Customers rarely leave messages. Missing phone calls means losing revenue.
The average painting job costs around $4,000, and missing just a few weekly calls will hurt the bottom line.
Secondly, we have a contact form that goes directly to your email.
We have a call center that takes calls 24/7.
Having the call center guarantees that calls won’t be missed. Our call center has taken estimate requests at all hours.
We have partnered with a reliable third-party service to ensure that your books are always up-to-date and accurate. You can trust that your financial records are in good hands, allowing you to focus on other essential aspects of your business. With our help, you can have peace of mind knowing that experts are taking care of your finances.
Klappenberger & Son works hard to reduce costs for its franchisees wherever possible. That includes third-party services that would cost more if we provided them in-house.
On two of the third-party accounts, you are billed directly. On one account where that is not possible to be billed directly, we currently charge $10.00 a month.
We aim for you to own a profitable business and not be nickeled and dimmed to death with franchisor fees. In fact, we pride ourselves on being the most affordable painting franchise with the least amount ongoing fees.
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Seasonal slowdowns don’t have to stop your success. Discover how Klappenberger & Son franchisees plan ahead, market smarter, and stay profitable all year long.
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