Podcast with Dick Warren, Owner of Benjamin Moore Paint Dealer

DICK WARREN, PAINTCLE

Richard Warren came out of retirement after a long career as an entrepreneur to launch paintCLE, a Benjamin Moore dealer.

paintCLE will be opening their fourth location on the West side soon to round out their other three locations in Shaker Heights, Willoughby Hills and Medina. paintCLE is your premier Benjamin Moore paint store with everything you need including wall paint, interior paint, exterior paint, deck stain, paint primer, paint supplies, and more.

Listen to this episode has Dick reflects on two big mistakes he made that almost destroyed his furniture business, Warren-Chaney Office Furniture.

How important is a quality, innovative, flexible product in the furniture business? Dick explains how his business would have failed without it. He also reflects on a nightmare decision to be a "small business with a big bank" which almost cost them their business.

Now, as a Benjamin Moore dealer, he faces the question "how will you compete with Sherwin Williams?" Tune in to the episode to find out how lessons learned from those two mistakes, not having a quality product and dealing with a big bank, have guided Dick through his relationship with Benjamin Moore and into a new era of business success.

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Huge thanks to Dick Warren, Co-owner of paintCLE (https://www.paintcle.com) and previous CEO of Warren-Chaney Office Furniture (which sold to OfficeMax in 2011) for joining us on the podcast. We hope his stories of success and failure in business will serve as an inspiration to your journey.

Also thanks to our hosts: Kirk Teets of ⁠⁠⁠Cleveland Custom Coatings⁠⁠⁠ and Kim Kitchen of ⁠⁠⁠Burning River Marketing⁠⁠⁠. Produced by ⁠⁠Cleveland Podcast Production⁠⁠ in Westlake, Ohio.

WHY DOES A PAINTER START A PODCAST?

Kirk Teets owner of Cleveland Custom Coatings is passionate about helping other businesses. His venture with Cleveland Custom Coatings opened his eyes about the difference between being a great painter and running a great painting company. Less than 5 years into running his commercial painting business and expanding to cover residential painting services, Kirk is not only quick to identify areas he wish he knew more about before he started, he's also eager to help other new business owners through sharing stories of triumphs and failures.

His passion for helping others and spreading the abundance mindset led him to partner with a digital marketing company to start this podcast in order to learn enough about podcasting to help businesses launch their own podcasts at the Cleveland Podcast Production studios at the Cleveland Custom Coatings location. Whether you want to get featured on the Cleveland Burning Podcast or are looking to start your own podcast and need a studio, some expertise and some direction, contact us to learn more and get involved. Email [email protected], fill out the contact us form on the Cleveland Podcast Production website or just call Kirk at Cleveland Custom Coatings: 216-372-4700.

To hear the details of why an SEO professional from Maine and a painting contractor from Texas started a Cleveland podcast and launched the Cleveland Podcast Production Company, listen to their first episode "Why Podcast? An SEO Expert and a Painting Contractor Walk into a Bar... "

"Invention made out of necessity"

KIRK TEETS STARTS THE CLEVELAND BURNING PODCAST

Join Kirk Teets, owner of Cleveland Custom Coatings and co-host of the Cleveland Burning Podcast, as he launches this new project to support local business and professionals.

By Cleveland Podcast Production
In this engaging and informative series, we unravel the hidden gems of Cleveland area entrepreneurship, and business professionals, focusing on the setbacks, accidents, and unexpected turns that paved the way for their success. Hosted by Kim Kitchen, owner of Burning River Marketing, a local SEO and digital marketing firm and Kirk Teets, owner of Cleveland Custom Coatings, a local commercial and residential painting company.