Saving on Exterior Painting-09′ Denver Hail Storm

October 11, 2009 at 7:05 am (Denver, Denver News, Denver Painting Contractors, News, Paint Contractor)
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Several areas of Denver and the Front Range of Colorado received a couple intense hail storms this summer. The majority of work is replacing roofs affected by the hail, some of which was golf-ball size, coupled with high winds. During these destructive storms, a few tornadoes were spotted, causing the golf-ball size hail to act as a sub-machine gun spray in areas off Smokey Hill Rd. and C-470 toll road.

Who was affected most by this storm as most roofs are needed replaced, are those newer homes with vinyl siding. Punching holes in siding, as if the neighborhood was sprayed with bullets on several sides of the homes.

Painting a few of these, we have determined how we can save insurance companies, and the homeowners a large amount of exterior painting costs normally involved with such jobs. Knowing that several sides of the homes need to be replaced, little masking is needed, since siding will be coming down and replaced, not having to mask off much of the vinyl. On a normal size home where just the trim is to be painted, not having to mask off damaged vinyl can see a savings of up to 30% of normal exterior painting costs.

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District Court Rules in Favor of E-Verify Executive Order

August 30, 2009 at 6:08 am (Uncategorized)
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District Court Rules in Favor of E-Verify Executive Order

On Wednesday, a federal court in Maryland ruled in favor of the E-Verify mandate for federal contractors, first issued by the Bush Administration. The order requires all contractors to verify the workplace eligibility of new hires, but it’s been delayed four times – once by the Bush Administration and three times by the Obama Administration – pending the court’s ruling. The rule is now set to become effective on Sept. 8. There’s a fax on your Action Buffet urging Pres. Obama to prevent any further delays from the rule taking effect.

Also, be sure to read the blog from Dr. James Edwards who co-authored the book “The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform” and represents NumbersUSA on Capitol Hill. In his blog, Dr. Edwards details how the House’s proposed health care bill would benefit illegal aliens. If you visit a Town Hall Meeting, be sure you know the loopholes detailed by Dr. Edwards and a report from the Congressional Research Service that would allow illegal aliens to gain coverage under the bill.

Finally, check your Action Buffet for actions that urge your Reps to cosponsor one of the immigration bills in Congress, ask them to protect American workers and urge them to prevent illegal aliens from receiving health care benefits under the Congressional proposals.

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Denver’s Newest House Painting Website

July 25, 2009 at 9:39 pm (Denver, Denver News, Denver Painting Contractors, Domain names, Eco Friendly, Keyword Domain, Paint Contractor, Painting Contactors, exterior painting, interior painting)
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Eco Paint Specialist’s Inc. is proud to announce it’s new custom website being built by formally known as Heritage Web Designs, now HIT Web Designs, which should being going live in a matter of days.

What Eco Paint wants to provide is a clean, professional, up to date site, with many features that the normal template sites cannot offer. What you should see is Flash, 7 pages, gallery, and blog. Having HIT write 12 pages of professionally written keyword rich text within the site. Eco Paint’s new site’s url is www.paintingdenver.net which is changing from www.ecopaintspecialists.com

We know having 5-6 years promoting www.ecopaintspecialists.com there is much content, organic history that has been built around company, however Eco Paint has decided to make a major move, hopefully improving relevancy, while giving the general public as much information as possible when choosing a paint contractor for either interior, exterior, residential, or commercial painting.

Painting and home improvements has been a life-long career for me, enjoying helping the local communities and national business locations with all their painting needs, whether it be interior or exterior painting, deck and fence stains and finishes.

As a keyword domain purchaser, these keyword domains listed below will be linked to Eco Paint Specialist’s website, in which we will own these keywords, the highest words and phrases people type into search bar to find a particular subject-house painting. Having normally averaged 400-450 painting jobs per year, and now the US economy has seen a tremendous drop, now on the road to recovery. we are averaging only 100-150 painting jobs. A tremendous blow, however one of my mentors and leading business entrepreneurs, Donald Trump said it best when asked on Fox News what he was going to do differently in the midst of a recession. “I’m not thinking about it, blazing full steam ahead, because when it does come back, I’ll be way ahead of the curve”. Taking that advise, feeling the same way, I’ve chosen to not only buy a keyword domain or two, but many. Below is a list with monthly search numbers for each;

www.painting-house.net 201k mo.

Domains Linked to Home Page;

www.painting-home.net 74k mo.

www.painting-house.net 201k mo.

www.house-paint.net 301k mo.

www.paint-home.net 201k mo.

www.coloradopainting.net 9900 mo.

www.denver-painters.net 2900 mo.

www.denver-painting.net 8100 mo.

www.homes-denver.net 368k mo.

www.ecopaint.org 9900 mo.

www.contractor-painting.com 90k mo.

www.paint-color.net 550k mo.

www.colorspaint.net 823k mo.

www.paint-home.net 201k mo.

www.ecopaintspecialist.com

To Interior Painting page;

www.interior-painting.net 135k mo.

www.decorator-interior.net 74k

www.paintrooms.net 22k

www.ceilingpainting.net 33k

www.paintwalls.net 90k

www.color-room.com 110k

www.texture-paint.net 33k

To Exterior Painting page;

www.exterior-painting.net 74k mo.

www.exteriorwall.net 74k mo.

www.washpressure.com 40k

www.washingpower.net 74k

www.colorexterior.com 60k

www.colorsexterior.com 90k

www.wallspaint.com 90k

www.siding-exterior.net 40k

To Deck Staining page;

www.stainingdeck.com 33k

www.sealantdeck.com 5400

www.cleaningdeck.com 49k

www.washingpressure.com 165k

www.cleaningpressure.com 74k

Siding Page

www.siding-cedar.com 90k

www.siding-exterior.net 40k

www.siding-installing.com 22k

www.siding-installation.net 33k

www.siding-replacement.net 12k

www.siding-repair.net 27k

Drywall Page

www.drywall-texture.com 40k

www.dry-wall.net 135k

www.drywall-repair.net 49k

www.texture-paint.com 33k

To website’s blog page;

www.colorado-painter.com 2400

www.painters-denver.com 2900

www.denver-painter.net 2400

www.painting-exterior.net 74k

www.painting-interior.net 135k

www.tipspainting.com 74k

www.color-ideas.net 135k

www.ideaspainting.com 201k

www.removalwallpaper.com 40k

www.paintglidden.com 110k

www.paintkwal.com 8100

www.paintbehr.com 165k

www.paintbenjamin.com 165k

www.paintmoore.com 201k

www.paintsherwin.com 110k

www.paintsherwinwilliams.com 110k

www.paintvalspar.com 60k

www.stainsikkens.com 12k

url’s, attached to individual Splash Pages;

www.paintingcolorado.net 9900 mo
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www.paintingdenver.net 8100 mo.

www.painting-aurora.com 1300 mo.

www.painting-broomfield.com 36

www.painting-castlerock.com 110

www.painting-centennial.com 110

www.painting-coloradosprings.com 1300

www.painting-golden.com 5400

www.painting-lakewood.com 390

www.painting-littleton.com 390

www.painting-parker.com 1300

www.painting-wheatridge.com 16

www.painting-thornton.com 210

www.painting-westminster.com 390

www.painting-arvada.com 170

Thinking with these keywords and domains, building useful content around them, I should see a far greater improvement in traffic, especially with a total of sixteen url’s linking to one another.

Proving that keyword domains greatly help 1st. page rankings, I tested a 6-7 month old study. Joining up with Web.Com for 2 template sites Painting Interior and Painting Exterior they now are on the first page with google in the Denver Colorado area for these particular keywords. Knowing page descriptions, page titles, meta-tags, linking, keywords, SMO, SEO is all important giving strong presents while providing valuable content for the reader, owning the keyword domain for that particular industry, term, or phrase is where it’s at! Using HubSpot and Merchant Circle also greatly helps optimization on a more professional level, and should not be overlooked.

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The Biggest Secret Web-builders won’t tell you

June 24, 2009 at 11:13 am (Denver, Denver News, Denver Painting Contractors, Domain names, Domains, Google, Keyword Domain, Paint Contractor, Painting Contactors, interior painting, keyword domains)

Besides unknown extra add-on’s like site-maps, additional pages, auto-responders, bandwidth, ect. good questions to ask first. However many large web-site building firms, the salesmen don’t even know about the following;

Keyword Domains are actually the words/phrases folks type in search engine search bar to find a particular product or service, being the url.
Starting back late last year, having www.ecopaintspecialists.com for over 6 years, I was not getting the organic search I was expecting. Reading another blog about Keyword Domains, I was hooked, line and sinker on a mission. Having talked to many web-builders over countless hours, not once did anyone say anything about keyword domains. I did question this, but marched on my domain quest for painting domains. Keyword Domains are only half the battle, but will help tremendously in the long run, building content around what most are typing in to find you in the first place. Sure, you can place the highest rated keyword in your web-site and meta-tags, but having the domain.com or .net, one types this phrase in again, your domain will tend to come up without paying for it!!! Now do I have your attention?

When doing your search, there are two key tools to use, landing some of the best domains your industry is generating. I will have 2 browsers open, one www.godaddy.com and other is google’s keyword tool, inside your personal Adwords back office and campaign. In the keyword tool search bar, just type in a broad term your industry best describes. Then the keyword tool will give you other possibilities, some may be much greater search numbers per month, than the one you typed in. That’s good, and no foul. Just copy terms with the highest numbers, then paste it in godaddy’s search bar to see if the dot.com or dot.net is taken. “Rats, already gone!” Here is a few important secrets no one told me, finding some fantastic finds for any industry. If the dot.com dot.net is taken, don’t give up. First, try reversing word phrase, as search engines give the same exact search result numbers if phrase is typed in paintingdenver or denverpainting. There is one more possibility if those two are taken. Simply place a hyphen between the two words painting-denver or denver-painting. All four domains will get the same results each month, and placing the hyphens may not help trying to sell a domain, but will certainly help when it comes, naming that site. Also, another advantage having a full array of domains for a particular subject, even if you don’t plan on using them as your domain, it keeps someone else having them. Some can be used as permanent 301 redirects, pointing to interior pages within your site, this is good as well. Working on your site is a never ending chore, staying abreast of all the new optimization search engines look for, but having the keyword domain, I personally feel they will be looking at you first for that particular keyword.

Below is a short list of domains I’ve cherry picked out of my lengthy list incorporating into my new custom site which is still in it’s infancy. My decision was not highest search numbers, but some more demographic which will in turn be more relevant. Not really painting homes in New York, living here in Denver, naming a domain www.paintinginterior.net would not get as much conversion as a more targeted one like
www.coloradopainting.net or like www.paintingdenver.net

Cherry Picked Painting Domains and monthly search numbers;

www.paintingdenver.net
8100
www.coloradopainting.net
9900
www.denverpainters.net
2400
www.exteriorpainting.net
74,000
www.paintinginteior.net
135,000
www.paintinghouse.net
201,000
www.home-painting.net
74,000
www.interior-painting.net
135,000
www.contractor-painting.com
90,500

www.abatementlead.com
18,000
www.ceilingpainting.net
18,000
www.cleaningdeck.com
49,500
www.cleaningpressure.com
49,500
www.colorexterior.com
60,500
www.colorsexterior.com
90,500
www.colorshouse.com
110,000
www.colorspaint.net
673,000
www.contractor-painting.com
90,500
www.contractor-painting.net
90,500
www.contractor-painting.org
90,500
www.contractorpainting.net
90,500
www.deckstaining.net
33,100
www.decorator-interior.com
74,000
www.decorator-interior.net
74,000
www.ecopaint.org
8100
www.exterior-painting.net
74,000
www.exteriorwall.net
74,000
www.painting-exterior-home.com
2900
www.painting-exterior-house.com
49,500
www.painting-exterior.net
74,000
www.painting-home.net
74,000
www.painting-house.net
201,000
www.painting-interior-home.com
6600
www.painting-interior-house.com
40,500
www.painting-interior.net
135,000
www.paintingaurora.net
1600
www.painting-bedroom.net
33,100
www.paintingbroomfield.com
91
www.paintingcentennial.com
91
www.paintingcolorado.net
9900
www.paintingdenver.net
8100
www.paintingexterior.net
74,000
www.paintingexterior.org
74,000
www.paintingfloor.com
201,000
www.paintinggolden.com
5400
www.paintinghouse.net
201,000
www.paintinghouseexterior.com
18,000
www.paintinghouseinterior.com
40,500
www.paintinginterior.net
135,000
www.paintinginterior.org
135,000
www.paintinginteriors.net
1600
www.paintinglittleton.com
320
www.paintingparker.com
1600
www.paintingparker.net
1600
www.paintinterior.net
246,000
www.paintkitchen.net
110,000
www.paintkwal.com
8100
www.paintlatex.net
110,000
www.paintmoore.com
165,000
www.paintroom.net
165,000
www.paintrooms.net
22,000
www.paintsherwin.com
110,000
www.paintsherwinwilliams.com
110,000
www.paintsmoore.com
33,000
www.painttrim.com
33,000
www.floorgarage.com
450,000
www.home-denver.net
301,000
www.home-painting.net
74,000
www.house-paint.net
301,000
www.house-painting-denver.net
210
www.housepaintexterior.com
49,300
www.housepaintingservice.com
720
www.ideas-painting.com
165,000
www.improvementhome.net
4,090,000
www.improvementshome.net
165,000
www.interior-painting.net
135,000
www.paint-home.net
165,000
www.paint-job.net
1,000,000
www.paintbehr.com
135,000
www.paintbenjamin.com
135,000
www.paintbuilding.com
14,800
www.paintceiling.org
60,500
www.paintershouse.com
49,500
www.paintexterior.com
246,000
www.paintexterior.net
246,000
www.paintexterior.org
246,000
www.paintexteriorhome.com
8100
www.paintexteriorhouse.com
49,500
www.paintexteriortrim.com
3600
www.paintglidden.com
40,500
www.paintvalspar.com
74,000
www.paintwalls.net
40,500
www.removalwallpaper.com
18,100
www.residentialpaintig.org
9900
www.roomspaint.com
12,000
www.sealantdeck.com
5400
www.stainingdeck.com
33,000
www.stainsikkens.com
12,000
www.tipspainting.com
60,500
www.wallspaint.com
94,000
www.washingpower.net
74,000
www.washpressure.com
165,000
www.washpressure.com
40,500

My latest finds, which I will incorporate in my new website making all search engines robotics easier to crawl, not only having a site map, but one with individual towns. I should note; all domains and coorisponding figures are about 15% lower than they were in January of this year. This may not be good for current situations, however when our economy does re-bound, these domains will be even more important.
www.paintingparker.com
1600
www.painting-centennial.com
91
www.painting-lakewood.com
1200
www.painting-broomfield.com
Not enough data
www.painting-littleton.com
1200
www.painting-castlerock.com
550
www.painting-golden.com
4500
www.denver-painters.net
2400

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Best Time to Paint

May 3, 2009 at 10:51 am (Denver, Denver Painting Contractors, Eco, Eco Friendly, Paint Contractor, Painting Contactors, exterior painting, interior painting)
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Many often ask when is the best time to paint. 1st. It must be determined whether interior or exterior. We’ll speak of interior for now.
Here is a list best times painting interiors, not listed in importance, as each person’s home may have different priorities.

1. Paint before adding an addition to the family, either a new born or relative. Important using new Green Eco Friendly paint, which has low to no V.O.C’s (volatile odor content) which typically is the ammonias even in water borne latex paints, which can linger for up to 3 years. However, as weeks go by, we get accustomed to the smell.

2. Paint before replacing flooring. It’s cheaper hiring a paint contractor if they paint without having to mask carpet, so if replacing, paint just before new carpet delivery. Easier to paint yourself, without having to mask it as well. Can paint all the way down past carpet, as this can be pulled up away from baseboards, making much concise and thorough job.

3. Paint after purchasing or before selling home When purchasing, home is ordinarily empty, making painting whether hiring a contractor, or doing yourself, less expensive. Painting before moving in, you’ll get to enjoy the paint job for many years to come. Painting before/after moving, will add value keeping up curb appeal even inside.

4. Paint before adding new furniture Paint a room before adding new furniture, and after moving out the old. This is also a good time to vacuum in places you may only get to every 6 months. Painting an empty room makes the ease work flow so much easier. Not having to cover anything, having to walk around.

Painting Exteriors a few above overlap, but will mention others to complete this area of thought.

1st. Order of business painting exteriors is Pressure Cleaning. Pressure Cleaning or sometimes referred to as Power Washing with high pressure washer using outside facet, cleans dirt and debris that is normally not seen by the naked eye. Exterior surfaces act as a magnet to dust and airborne material in the air just as a air filter is to a car. Not trying to peel the paint off with washer, it is used to clean dirt and debris. Further paint removal is accomplished by hand scraping a day or two after cleaning has taken place.

Secondly, Best time to paint exteriors is temperature related. After preparation is accomplished, start painting in the morning time, as it generally warms up throughout the day, allowing to dry properly. Best temps. are any thing above 40 degrees.

Third, Best time to paint exteriors is after purchasing home to get your own personal footprint on property, or just before selling property, keeping value up to current market value. Tends to be a misnomer as it adds value. Yes, it will add value if exterior is in desperate need, but not add value over market value, just what it should normally be valued.

Forth, Best time to paint exteriors is when it actually needs it! Peeling paint is the first clue, but showing blotches or oil spots on siding is another, as paint has dried out enough not protecting any longer. Paint is like a vinyl coating, longer warranties have longer duration of elasticity which gives the paint ability to stretch as the home moves the slightest. Yes, you can wait an additional year, but not recommended as wood can deteriorate unprotected in a years time. Different extreme weather elements can cause boards to curl, rot, and split if not protected with a elastic paint coating.

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www.After.ws

April 3, 2009 at 10:17 am (Denver, Denver News, Domain names, News)
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At it again. Looking around for domains tonight, I think I landed another good one. The dot coms/nets/orgs/infos are the most sought AFTER , although the next one quickly coming up the ranks is ws/standing for web-site. I can only hope AFTER all the good ones are taken, this one will bring some decent money AFTER taxes of course. Knowing the NYTimes purchased ABOUT for $410 Million, I wonder if they’d be interested buying AFTER

Dictionary Term;
http://www.answers.com/after

Websites that have the term After in Headlines;
1,890,000,000 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=after&aq=f&oq=

Term |
After
Placement |
1 – 3
PPC |
$1.14
Searches per last month |
30,400,000
Average over 12 months|
16,600,000

After seems to be health related, finding this surrounded by other health related terms on Google’s Keyword Search Tool.

Not sure what I should ask, I’m sure it’s at least a couple/four million, with About.com selling for $410. Interesting that using google’s keyword tool, the term After is medically related, having 100’s of other uses with the term. Knowing the industry this word is related to, the price should be greater than other industries of far lesser values.

If anyone has any suggestions, please leave a comment. Tks.

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More Valued Domains

April 1, 2009 at 8:19 am (Domain names, Google, MSN, Search Engines, Yahoo)
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Using Keyword Tool, seeing average searches per month/year, a few more have been purchased, hopefully reselling to anyone. Prime candidates could include Google, Yahoo, and or MSN. Not really concerned who buys them, although Google typically buys anything related, protecting most searches. Other search engines could use these as perm. 301 re-directs, but not sure they do this or not.
Knowing Google is gearing up for a massive new video subscription within homes via. satellite, competing with major cable providers, VideosGoogle looks very promising, as well as you know, the HomePage

www.homepagegoogle.com 90,000/mo searches $35K

www.videosgoogle.net 135,000/mo searches $40K

All on sell at GoDaddy

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$410 million for About.com

March 31, 2009 at 10:10 am (Denver, Denver News, Domain names, Eco Friendly, Green, News, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized)
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socialmedia_quiz

6) “When The New York Times paid $410 million for About.com three years ago, About had 500 niche sites. Some predicted a dramatic expansion of About’s portfolio. How many sites does About have now?”

This is Great News to say the least. Thanks @Deltavogue sharing quiz.

I don’t think asking 3 million for www.renewsenergy.com www.renewsenergy.net www.renewsenergy.org & www.renewsenergy.info is too unreasonable given the fact above.

Considering the fact our country is in uncharted waters, heading to a more Green society, Renewable Energy is our future in America.

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Values of the listed domain “Renews Energy”

March 31, 2009 at 6:30 am (Denver, Denver News, Denver Painting Contractors, Domain names, Domains, Eco, Eco Friendly, Green, Green Day, Keyword Domain, News, Painting Contactors, Renewable Energy, Renews Energy, Wind Energy, keyword domains)
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1st. Rewarding for insight, vision, and inventiveness, I know this keyword domain is worth every cent, as to the multi-billion dollar company this domain will soon represent, as we move forward, in uncharted waters. Many other “To the point” domains have sold for far greater amounts, even recently.

2nd. As a voter, business owner, capitalist, and investor, and opportunist seeing value in names, this domain will truly will be known, saved as favorites in households across America, Republican or Democrat, with much forethought given to the future of our great land.

3rd. Keyword domains are the words and/or phrases many type into search bars finding information. If the dot com or dot net is active, it will surface to the top organically. (Pardon the pun) Renews Energy phrase receives the second largest request second to renewable energy, which is a very large portion of searches each day and month. Everything energy related is highly picked over, not leaving much left available, especially those of the renewable type.

4th. Having a Keyword domain is better than the company name in most instances, as many type in a general word or phrase to search. That word/phrase being the dot com/net that is typed into search bar gives far more relevancy. When marketing and promoting a keyword domain, that dot com/net will be remembered more fluently as well.

www.renewsenergy.com
www.renewsenergy.net
www.renewsenergy.org
www.renewsenergy.info all for sale, please contact me

Although the term Eco is a relatively new term, it has been gaining in popularity over the last 10 years as I will describe below;

Eco Paint Specialist’s name came about during the later part of 1993 to early part of 1994, as an S-corp. Eco being an acronym for yes, ecological, but also more concern as to economical, and lesser for environmental starting out. This acronym Eco grew upon us during the airing of the Eco Challenge on Discovery, being 1st. of its kind as you may recall, also giving credence to replacing my debunked Seiko wrist watch, with a Citizen’s Eco Drive during same period. My wife then working as a Senior Staff Geologist for an Environmental consulting firm, and my Dearest father enjoying the comfort and style of Ecco shoes, typically sold at Nordstrom, Inc. The term Eco could not have been any more appropriate, during this era. Developing our business strategy as a local paint contractor, Eco Paint Specialist’s has been on the forefront with our company name. Riding the wave, major paint manufactures have also helped our company name, developing Eco Friendly Paints within their vast array of paint selections starting in the later century. Stores lowered the Volatile Odor Content (V.O.C) especially using interior paints, making air quality safer for those applying, as well as those enjoying newest color decorations, referring to Green Paints. We at Eco Paint Specialist’s enjoy working with Green Paints, however enjoys applying whatever our customers request, we again have felt truly Blessed being in our position with name recognition and relevancy.

Cal Phillips in Aurora CO.
http://www.ecopaint.org
http://www.ecopaintspecialists.com
http://www.paintinginterior.net
http://www.paintingexterior.net

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Eco Paint Specialist’s Inc.

March 12, 2009 at 9:41 pm (Denver, Denver News, Denver Painting Contractors, Domain names, Domains, Eco, Eco Friendly, Green, News, Painting Contactors, Renewable Energy)
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logopaint_can2Welcome to WordPress.com. Happy to join the ranks of WordPress blogs, having information to share with all, concerning our painting industry.  Always learning, I hope to see other Paint Contractors, specifically from Denver Colorado joining in, where our customer base can also benefit from all our knowledge, and expertise.

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