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We are the award winning painters in the Northwest. Our service area covers Idaho, Oregon, Washington and the Western part of Montana. Not only are we locally owned we also provide a unique system and process. Every office is managed by an up and coming college student. Each manager is handpicked based on their natural skills in leadership as well as their commitment to start a business. We then train them on our ways of managing a painting team as well as our industry leading process.
We have implemented a step-by-step system that keeps the client informed and satisfied every step of the way. There are no missed items, mistakes made in color choices or big messes left behind for the client to clean. Our process begins and ends with the customer’s total satisfaction. Our job is not done and final payment is not received until the client is happy. That is why we have won awards for best new business and why we continue to rack up great testimonials from past clients.
Latest News

September 21, 2011: In the Spotlight: Jessica Bishop

Jessica has been featured in the Ballard News-Tribune! Check out this cool article about our CEO and the award that she has been nominated for - the Nellie Cashman Award for Women Business Owners.

   "The WBO award, also known as ‘The Nellie’, recognizes and honors women business owners who have enhanced the status of women entrepreneurs through their vision, perseverance, and fearless leadership in business and the community.  To qualify a nominee must own at least 51 percent of the business, gross more than $1 million in annual revenue, and have three or more employees.

   "I was nominated by one of my peers," Bishop said. "I have no idea if I'm going to win. There are some amazing women in this group [of nominees] and none of us are in the same industry. Either way I feel very honored to be among them." "

Read the full article here.


April 19th, 2011: Now Accepting Credit Cards

Student Painters can now accept VISA and Mastercard payments for your paint project!


April 13th, 2011: A+ Rating with BBB

We are proud to report our continued A+ Rating with the Better Business Bureau.  We are dedicated to resolving customer issues quickly and fairly and feel that our record of only two complaints, both resolved satisfactorily, across more than 500 painting projects every summer for the last 11 years proves this commitment. Click on the link below to check out the details.

http://www.bbb.org/western-washington/business-reviews/painting-contractors/student-paintersnet-in-seattle-wa-64002768

January 1, 2010: Angie's List Super Service Award 2009


StudentPainters.Net won a Super Service Award from Angie’s List in 2009. The award was presented “For achieving and maintaining a Superior Service Rating on Angie’s List throughout 2009 as determined by Angie’s List members in the category of: Painting – Exterior.” This means that our clients felt strongly enough about the quality of our services that they took their own time to write about their experiences with us on Angie’s List and share with other Angie’s List members what it’s like to have their house painted by StudentPainters.Net.

 

The award was presented by the Seattle Chapter of Angie’s List to StudentPainters.Net on January 1, 2010. Angie’s List is a website that enables its members to post ratings and reviews online of services that they have used for the benefit of the other members looking for similar services. These types of customer reviews are considered by many to be the least biased and most valuable kinds of company reviews, especially available online. Many people look to Angie’s List for information any time they need some sort of contracting work done on their houses. We love having our customers share their great experiences with us on Angie’s List so that our prospective clients can see what working with us is like.

 

StudentPainters.Net is an entrepreneurial development company that seeks to train the future business and community leaders in business skills in a real world setting. The fact that we have been given a customer service award by a customer review site shows that we are truly accomplishing our goals of training and empowering our Branch Managers to provide professional, high-quality services to our clients. This helps our student managers learn business skills that will continue to reward them over the course of their lives.




JESSICA BISHOP CHOSEN FOR THE PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL'S 40 UNDER 40

SUPPLEMENT TO THE PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL – SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2008

 

Jessica Bishop began college with the intention of one day becoming a doctor – starting her own business hadn’t yet occurred to her as a possibility.

            Nobody in her blue-collar family, Bishop said, had been an entrepreneur, and “doctor” seemed like a logical career choice for making good money.

            But in her freshman year at the University of Washington the business bug bit her.

         She had begun working at a student painting company as a branch manager, recruiting other students for summer painting jobs. Then, when that company folded, Bishop and her husband, Dwayne, decided to take over, transforming the business into Studentpainters.net.

         Bishop hadn’t planned on starting her own student painting company, she said, but “opportunity knocked and we opened the door.”

            Bishop and her husband first ran the company from their 400-square-foot studio apartment in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood.

            One of the big challenges that first year, Bishop said, was building a good reputation in the wake of a company that had folded without paying its student-employees their bonuses – money the students needed for college. In 2000, Studentpainters.net paid $30,000 to those students from the company’s profits.

         Bishop, 31 and president of the company, now runs operations from the refinished basement of their home in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood in Seattle. It employs around 200 people and brings in an annual revenue of more than $2 million.

         Being an executive at Studentpainters.net requires a lot of statewide travel, and so many of Bishop’s employees often crash at her place between business trips. “Four nights out of seven someone is sleeping on my futon,” she said.

         Though Bishop loves helping to “create young entrepreneurs,” she feels that she may, at some point, outgrow running Studentpainters.net. In the future, she said, she may embark on a new business venture in consulting, recruiting or human resources.

            Her employees “stay the same age,” she said, “And I just keep getting older.”

--EMILY DARRELL



Best of 2006 Seattle Magazine


StudentPainters.Net was voted Best Housepainter by the readers of Seattle magazine for 2006. We are very proud to receive this Readers’ Choice award because we were selected not by a panel of judges but by our wonderful clients.

 

Seattle magazine prides itself on recognizing the best service providers in many different industries in the city and surrounding areas. Being recognized as the Best Housepainter in the region by Seattle magazine is an honor that gives us great pride in our relationships with our clients and the services that we provide.

 

StudentPainters.Net is an entrepreneurial development company that hires college students on their summer breaks to run a small house painting business. The SP.N Mission is “To provide a challenge, in the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism, where exceptional young people with the voice of our experience to guide them, can attain a level of confidence and achievement that will forever set them apart.” Receiving the kind of recognition that we have gotten from Seattle magazine confirms to us that we are accomplishing our goals of training a new generation of entrepreneurs to perform great work with excellent customer service skills.



Bothell-Kenmore Reporter

August 3-16, 2005

BUSINESS

 

Future success begins with small brush strokes

College student helms painting crew as foray into the business world

By ANDY NYSTROM

 

It’s as if Julie Hill was born to be a businesswoman.

          As a child, she earned some cash by running a lemonade stand and by selling her beaded-animal creations at a coffee shop. Then at Inglemoor High School, she became immersed in Dennis Rockwood’s marketing class and continued on to study at the University of Washington as a business major.

          This summer, the 19-year-old Kenmore resident is running the show as StudentPainters.net’s Bothell/Woodinville branch manager. In the future, this go-getter hopes to be running a real-estate development business.

            For now, though, Hill is glad to be putting her classroom knowledge into action in the business world.

            “I have to get people to have confidence in me that I can do the job, hire a crew and see the job through to the end. I think you really have to be determined to have things turn out the way you want them to,” Hill said while three of her employees prepared to paint a Woodinville home on a recent afternoon. “And this is a great start ... To be able to find out about running a business without having to go out and run your own business right away.”

            At StudentPainters.net, which is a 24-year-old organization that features a Seattle-based Northwest Division, Hill is in charge of marketing, pricing and hiring, and keeps an eye on cost control and profitability on local jobs. This summer, Hill’s crew has painted seven homes and is shooting to finish 20 by the end of August. The average price of each job is $3,500, which includes paint, labor and other costs.

            If it weren’t for Rockwood’s class at Inglemoor, Hill might not be motivated to do such a thorough job at StudentPainters.net, she said.

            “He always told us stories about his real-world business experiences,” said Hill, who added that Rockwood was an encouraging but demanding instructor who had his students do meticulous business reports and marketing plans. “He held everyone to really high standards. He said, ‘If it’s not suitable for the real business world, then it’s not suitable for my class.’”

            Hill, who endured a “crazy” string of interviews and had extensive training for her job during the spring, said that some of Rockwood’s intensity has rubbed off on her.

            “I try to be really friendly with people, but I always mean business,” she said with a laugh. “There have been a few painters who didn’t (meet) the quality standards ... And we had a couple of meetings where I wasn’t very happy during them.”

            But Hill still kept her cool and got her painters focused on giving their customers, and themselves, satisfaction by doing a solid job. After all, Hill knows what it’s like to rebound from a tough situation to achieve success. Case in point: As a member of the DECA student marketing association at Inglemoor, she qualified for the national competition as a sophomore; the next year, however, Hill nearly quit DECA after she failed to make nationals.

            After regaining faith in her marketing abilities, Hill was back on board as a senior and placed second at nationals in the business-services marketing division.

            “I think that was a confidence-booster for me, and it was an awesome way to finish off senior year,” said Hill, who had to take a test and perform role plays at the DECA competition.

            In addition to shining with DECA and participating in Future Business Leaders of America activities at Inglemoor, Hill received the Washington Award for Vocational Excellence, which is a grant that pays for two years of her education at UW. Through her job at StudentPainters.net, she receives internship credit and money that will go toward school as well.

            During the spring, Hill was granted early admission to UW’s business school, and she’s looking forward to working toward a degree in business administration and stepping into the role of business owner some day. She’s well on her way after finishing first in marketing management at this year’s state DECA conference, which is a college-level event.

            "I don't mind working for other people, but I kind of like the idea of working for myself," Hill said of life beyond UW and StudentPainters.net. "I want to see that I can do something from scratch and say, 'Wow, I completed this from start to finish -- I did it.' It's exciting."


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