Elite Business Advice Podcast
The Elite Business Advice Podcast's goal is to help educate business owners in all areas of business and life. We want to help entrepreneurs both personally and professionally to make sure they have a healthy balance of how their business is serving their life!
We cover very tactical topics like morning routines, marketing & tax strategies, and systems to have in place for your business, as well as big picture items like designing your life, planning out your business each year, and how to grow your leadership.
While the niche our company serves is focused on the painting industry and painting contractors, the advice shared in this show will translate across all of the trades and home service industries as well as many other business categories.
Episodes
237 episodes
Building a 2026 Comprehensive Marketing Plan (Not a Shotgun Strategy)
Holiday season means it’s time to plan your 2026 marketing strategy. In this episode, Chris Moore shows painting contractors how to calculate their true lead needs and turn those numbers into a focused marketing plan. He breaks down the three e...
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Season 5
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Episode 50
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30:10
How Painting Contractors Can Master Hard Conversations — With Clients, Crews, and Themselves
Did you know that most contractors don’t lose money because of bad clients — they lose money because they avoid uncomfortable conversations? In today’s episode of the Elite Business Advice Podcast, host Chris Moore
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Season 5
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Episode 49
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31:42
How Painting Contractors Can Make the Most of Winter Downtime — Systems, Strategy & 2026 Prep
Winter is here — and for many painting contractors, this season brings the familiar question: “How do I make the most of my time?” In this episode of the Elite Business Advice Podcast, host Chris Moore shares a practical framework to help you u...
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Season 5
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Episode 48
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16:34
Utilizing Tech on Your Jobsites
Change can be hard for everyone involved in your business. The owner, the leadership team and the field teams. In this episode, we have Bracken Anderson, Senior Partnerships Manager at BusyBusy join us to share some insight and tips on how to h...
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Season 5
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Episode 47
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24:38
Year End Tax Strategies
From understanding how taxes differ for S-Corporations and LLCs to deciding when to accelerate expenses or defer income, we break down what really matters — and what’s just noise when it comes to your taxes. You’ll also lea...
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Season 5
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Episode 46
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28:59
3 Financial Pitfalls of a Painting Business
Finances are emotional — especially when you don’t know your numbers. In this episode, we break down three steps every painting contractor needs to take to gain control of their finances: awareness, forecasting, and benchmarking. If you’re tire...
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Season 5
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Episode 45
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25:44
People Management Systems 101
Managing people is one of the toughest — and most rewarding — parts of running a painting business. In this episode of the Elite Business Advice Podcast, host Chris Moore breaks down five essential systems every contractor should implement to l...
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Season 5
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Episode 44
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19:36
Using Brand Awareness in Your Marketing Strategy
In this episode of the Elite Business Advice Podcast, Chris Moore sits down with Jon Beach, founder of Skilled Trades Media, to unpack one of the most overlooked marketing tools for painting contractors — brand ...
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Season 5
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Episode 43
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35:19
Ask The Experts: Nick Slavik & Michal Cheney
What happens when Nick Slavik and Michal Cheney sit down to talk shop? You get real stories, smart strategies, and proven advice from two painting industry leaders. Tune in to hear how the hosts of Ask A Painter Live and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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40:03
Case Study: Clemson – Creating a Culture of Excellence
Clemson, South Carolina isn’t just known for its legendary football program — it’s known for its powerful sense of culture, community, and loyalty. Whether you’ve experienced Clemson firsthand or just heard the buzz, there’s something truly spe...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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25:57
Topgolf Case Study - Building a Sustainable Business
How do you ensure that as your business is growing and becoming more popular, we keep making the right decisions to do it in a healthy way? Hindsight is always 20/20 in any business and in life decisions, but what are some core philosophies we ...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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25:33
Leveraging AI and Technology in Your Business
Do you ever wonder how you should be leveraging AI and different technology in your business? Do you also feel lost on where to start or where to think about beginning with the vast array of things available and rapidly changing the last few ye...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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43:19
Sales 401 Series – Part 4: Handling Objections and Building Lifelong Customers
We know that objections are going to happen in sales, the question is are you prepared for them? Or more importantly how you can handle them in your process before they even come up! In this episode, we’re going to cover how to handle some comm...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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37:22
Sales 401 Series – Part 3: Building Your Sales Framework and Process
It’s important to have a repeatable process for every estimate that you do. This helps breed consistency in the customer experience, sets your production team up for success, and helps create a duplicatable system to teach others as you grow. I...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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36:05
Sales 401 Series – Part 2: Sales Psychology
One misunderstanding we hear from painting contractors is that sales psychology is just manipulation of the customers. But it’s actually not! It’s understanding the way they’re thinking so we can communicate how to solve their problem or satisf...
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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28:49
Sales 401 Series – Part 1: Why Fundamentals Matter to Keep Your Business Moving
Everything in a painting business rises and falls on sales. It’s often referred to as the cog in the wheel or the bottleneck in the business flow. Today, we kick off a 4-part series on sales covering the fundamentals needed in selling. From kno...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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30:16
How You Should Organize Your Crews
Do you know the impact of what having set structured crews can have in your business? Do you know how you would even organize your teams? In today’s episode we’re going to share why this can be so impactful, how to think about organizing your t...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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22:15
3 Questions to Answer in Your Business
There are 3 questions that you should be able to answer in your business off the top of your head, and if you answer yes to all 3 you are on track and should carry on! If you answer no to any of them, it’s well worth taking some time to slow do...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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16:38
Marketing Systems For Consistency
Everyone knows they need to build a consistent lead flow for their business, but few people know what that actually looks like. In this episode, we break down how to build marketing systems for your business into 3 areas: Time Intervals, Trigge...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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19:45
An Attitude of Gratitude
It’s not hard to see the negative things in the world and in people around us. It is a lot harder to find the positive in things though. Usually you have to actually look for it. In today’s episode we share how having an Attitude of Gratitude c...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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26:03
Opportunities Are Everywhere
As an entrepreneur, having opportunities all around you can be a very freeing and exciting thing, but it also can be a dangerous thing along your entrepreneurial journey if you don’t guard your golden goose and make smart decisions. In this epi...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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19:07
Don’t Pierce the Corporate Veil!
Keeping your business and personal finances separated sounds like a pretty simple and easy thing to do right? Unfortunately what seems easy and become tough in some day to day realities of running a business. In this episode we share some commo...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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20:11
What Are Your Inputs?
What you put into your brain is what you will see each and everyday in our lives. In this episode we share a few common areas that can make or break our mindset, the psychology behind why this is so impactful, and how to change if you don’t lik...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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24:28
Your Customers Experience Makes or Breaks Sales
How good do you believe your customers experience is with your company? Do you have any benchmarks or feedback to back up that feeling? In this episode, we’re going to cover how your customer experience makes or breaks sales for you, the common...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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28:03
A Desire Mindset vs a Mindset of Lack
Do you ever catch yourself going down a negative slippery slope in your business? You quickly turn one little thing into a negative monstrosity that is hard to bounce back from? How do you view the overall satisfaction of your business? Are you...
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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27:24