Color World

About Us

Color World Painting is a one-of-a-kind painting company with a history of painting since 1997. Our support systems save you time and energy, allowing you to focus on attracting new customers and offering high-quality products they will love. We are a tremendously unique operation with minimal competition, offering a one-stop shop. Color World provides franchise owners with over 20 years of painting and home improvement industry experience. The home improvement industry is a multi-billion-dollar economic powerhouse, with painting, carpentry, gutters, and washing making up a considerable portion of this. With repeat and referral business, industry-specific CRM, off-season revenue, and our partnerships with industry titans Sherwin-Williams and PPG, we combine flexibility with profitability.

Industry Facts

The home improvement industry is a multi-billion dollar per year economic powerhouse, with painting, carpentry, gutters and washing making up a significant portion of this.

As many business experts have suggested over the years, the home improvement industry have been one of the most historically stable and consistent with basically unlimited potential, and most importantly has not been largely influenced by economic trends. Spending by owners on improvements will rise 2 percentage points on average through 2025, keeping pace with expected economic growth.

In the past year alone, this industry has been projected to surpass prior consumer spending records. Due to the home improvement industry’s success, home improvement franchises have been on the rise. Businesses in maintenance industries that service residences and commercial buildings saw a 13% increase in sales in 2016, according to Sageworks.

Why Choose Color World Painting?

• One-stop-shop: our 5 in 1 business model is the first of its kind, which attracts a strong customer base. With Color World, franchisees have the tools to drive their business and focus on their goals while maintaining a work-life balance.

• Repeat and Referral Business: By providing multiple services we can get more services done by one customer allowing our franchisees to have more repeat and referral business.

• Industry-specific CRM: our tool separates us by offering a complete source to manage all clients, estimates, and track marketing campaigns.

• Lead Generation: Color World's marketing team will build a customized marketing strategy unique to each franchisee and market. Our marketing team makes local websites for franchisees and manages their digital needs (SEO, PPC, and social media). Our personalized approach to marketing allows franchisees to focus on their priorities: sales and production.

• Minimum Employees Required: Launch your business with 0-2 employees. As an owner-operator, you can launch your business as the only employee and add a sales manager or production manager as you scale your business. As a semi-absentee owner, you can start with a sales manager or a production manager, or both depending on how active of a role you want in the day-to-day operations.

• No Experience Needed: Color World puts technology at your fingertips, making performing estimates so easy that industry experience is not required. Using our proprietary software, franchisees or sales managers need to input the measurements, and the software will produce a competitive estimate on the spot.

• Ask about Diversity & Veteran DiscountsBenefits of Franchising With Color World.

5 streams of revenue make for a better experience:

• Residential and Commercial Painting: Most Americans spend more money on their house than on any other asset they own. Reliable website resource Angie’s List estimates that homeowners pay, on average, $450 per room for interior painting work and nearly $4,000 for an exterior paint job on a one-story house. To enter this potentially lucrative market, we make starting your own franchise as easy as possible.
• Minor Carpentry and Drywall Repair: When you paint a residential or commercial structure, there may likely be minor wall or ceiling repairs that are needed. Being trained in minor carpentry and drywall repair techniques will allow you to make the most of your painting job and add value to the service you provide to your customers. You can help your business grow by offering more than just the normal painting work, you can increase your profit margins.
• Power Washing: Whether residential or commercial, power washing is an effective service that your local clients will love. From maintaining the beauty of a home to removing buildups of industrial waste, your franchise will enter a steady market for professional surface cleaning solutions.

• Holiday Lighting: Television shows and popular culture have made extensive exterior lighting displays more widespread, so now is the time to enter this $27 billion industry! Whether you will specialize in residential or commercial properties, we make beginning your holiday lighting franchise as hassle-free as possible.

• Gutter Installation: Home and commercial gutter systems perform the essential task of directing runoff away from your customer’s structures. Otherwise, pools of water will accumulate near the foundation of the building and cause water damage, including mold and rot. Your franchise will save your customers time and money from property damage. Your services will be all-inclusive for maximum opportunities to help grow your business.

Training and Support

• Training: Color World has a 6-week pre-training program couple with our 5-day classroom training program that our new Franchise Owners attend. Our classroom training is held at our training center in our Corporate Headquarters in Powell, OH. Color World HQ has optimized the traditional classroom to focus on a more practical education process.
  Our intensive 5 day Color World training program also teaches our Franchise Owners the fundamentals of how to quote and sell all of our services, how to find and hire the right types of contractors and how to oversee the financials of your new business. 
• Ongoing Support: When beginning your entrepreneurial journey with Color World, we understand support means everything. Our support team is here to help you understand that you are not in this alone. Whether it’s email discussions, phone calls, or even visits to each other; we are invested in your new business.
• Technology: Color World has a proprietary CRM to help our Franchise Owners with all aspects of their business. This tool separates us from our competitors by offering a complete source to manage all clients, provide onsite estimates and even track marketing campaigns.
• Finance Management: We have the tools to help you run your company and benchmark with our proprietary dashboard. We help you make data based decisions on your Color World business as you look to get open and beyond.
• Marketing: Having been in business for 20 years, we have refined our strategic marketing plan. We provide you with the tools and trainings you need to get you up and running quickly without wasting time figuring out everything there is to a new business. Our system is built on cutting-edge, user-friendly technology that millennials will love.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking to award franchises to a select group of individuals who are motivated to become successful entrepreneurs within our franchise system. Ideally, you should have:

• A Strong Business Background: You have a good business acumen, but you don’t have to be from a corporate background. You have outstanding leadership qualities to go along with strong customer relationship skills.
• Outgoing and Friendly: You should have an ability to connect with your customers, with your staff and with your wide community. Our typical Painting Franchise Owners tend to smile a lot, enjoy what they do and represent the brand with pride.
• Growth-Oriented: We are seeking to partner with aspiring entrepreneurs who are eager to grow their business. 
• Community and Family-Focused: You’re passionate about your family and your community. You’re eager to be actively involved in your community, as a means to network and source more leads for your new business.

What You Would Do As A Franchisee

You can choose from two types of franchise ownership models:

• Owner-Operator: As an owner-operator, you will be managing and overseeing all of the daily jobs, scheduling appointments, interacting with customers and managing finances.
• Semi-Absentee: As a Semi-Absentee owner you will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the business. You will hire and manage staff, schedule employees, manage payroll and oversee Color World marketing strategies.

Does this sound like something you could do, and do well? Then we would love to talk with you!