The 3-Product Painting Contractor New-Customer Kit
A painting job is usually won over several moments: an estimate on a driveway, a few weeks of silence, and a homeowner who finally remembers your name because something of yours is still on their counter. This kit is the three printed pieces that carry a stranger from first quote to repeat customer.
The painting contractor new-customer kit is three pieces released on a calendar. Contractor business cards go out at every estimate, New Year greeting cards reach the past-customer list once the season ends, and New Year invitations open booking season with a dated offer. Building them from one file keeps the logo, the colors and the phone number identical across all three.
The picks
The estimate, the December card and the January invitation, priced
100 contractor cards cost $17.57, 50 greeting cards $56.02 and 25 invitations $19.77. Cards and invitations take 3 business days and the folded greeting card 5, each with live pricing and stock choices on its own page. Configure the quantities that match your route and your past-customer list, then order them in one pass.
Design and print help
One crew name on the estimate and the follow-up
The kit only works if every piece looks like it came from the same company. Set the logo, two colors and a phone number big enough to read across a kitchen once in the designer, carry them to the 2 in x 3.5 in card, the folded greeting card and the flat invitation, and feel the card and greeting stocks from free samples first.
How they work together
The truck now, the mailbox in December, the invitation in January
Each piece owns a stage of the customer, from the first driveway conversation to the call that fills next spring. Print them ahead, then release them on the calendar below.
You are standing in the driveway with a number. The card is what stays behind when the conversation ends and the comparison shopping starts.
The job is done and the relationship is warmest. A card mailed at year end keeps you in the drawer instead of in the deleted folder.
Interior work fills winter and exterior work fills spring. An invitation with a dated offer gets calendars moving before your competitors call.
1. Contractor business cards: what stays behind after the estimate
A painting estimate ends the same way every time. You give a number, the homeowner says they need to talk it over, and you walk to the truck. Whatever you left on the counter is the only version of you in that house for the next three weeks. That is the entire job of the card, and most contractor cards fail it.
Put the work on the card. License number, insurance line, the two or three services you actually want to be called for, and a phone number sized to be read without glasses. Skip the clip-art roller. If you are weighing print shops on service rather than price, the GotPrint service alternative breakdown covers what changes when someone picks up the phone about your file.
Order enough that you never ration them. A card in a drawer earns nothing, and a crew that hands out four hundred a season books work you never quoted.
2. New Year greeting cards: the piece that reopens an old job
Every house you have painted is a warm lead sitting quietly on a list. The owners liked the work, they remember the crew, and they have no idea you also do cabinets, decks or the rental unit across town. A New Year card is the least pushy way to remind them, and it arrives during the one week of the year when mail actually gets opened. If the list is thin, our guide on how to build or rent a mailing list for direct mail covers where the extra addresses come from.
Write it like a person. One handwritten line about their house, your signature, no discount code. The card keeps the relationship warm, and the ask comes later. Shops that treat a small run like a real order are worth finding, which is why the UPrinting service alternative comparison is useful before you commit a mailing list to press.
Budget for the whole list, not a sample. The value is in reaching every past customer once, not reaching your best twenty three times.
3. New Year invitations: booking season opens on your calendar
January is when homeowners look at a dull hallway and decide this is the year. Most contractors wait for that call. An invitation makes it happen on your schedule instead, because it carries a date, a reason and a deadline rather than a general offer to be helpful whenever.
Give it one clear ask. An early-booking window, a free interior walkthrough week, a fixed price held until March. If turnaround worries you at the start of a season, the Overnight Prints service and phone alternative notes are worth a read, and the offer structures in 22 promotions that pull new clients translate cleanly to trades.
Mail it two to three weeks after the greeting card. The card earns the goodwill, the invitation spends it, and by the time your competitors start dialing, your February is already spoken for.
Specs and pricing
Contractor card specs on 14pt gloss cover and the price ladder
The business card sets the stock and the color reference every other piece follows. It runs $17.57 for 100 and $36.26 for 500 on 14pt gloss cover, with 16pt, 24pt ultra thick and uncoated stocks in the same menu, in 3 business days; read the price by quantity before you commit the season's run.
| Quantity | Price Per Unit | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 17.6¢ | $17.57 |
| 200 | 11.5¢ | $23.07 |
| 300 | 9.15¢ | $27.46 |
| 400 | 7.96¢ | $31.86 |
| 500 | 7.25¢ | $36.26 |
| 600 | 6.77¢ | $40.64 |
| 700 | 6.43¢ | $45.04 |
| 800 | 6.18¢ | $49.43 |
Wally explains the kit
Three pieces, one brand, printed to win the next job
Wally thinks of a painting kit the way a crew thinks of a wall. The card is the primer, laid down at the estimate so something sticks. The greeting card is the first coat, mailed months later when the job is done and the goodwill is highest. The invitation is the finish, arriving with a date that turns a warm memory into a booked week.
Shop the home services collection →See it in use
Card work customers have handed out
Check each card for what this page puts on a painter's card: license number, insurance line, two or three services, and a phone number sized to read without glasses.
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By the numbers
One kit, printed to fill next season
Common Questions
Common questions about the painting contractor kit
What is in the painting contractor new-customer kit?
Three printed pieces that cover the full arc of a residential painting customer. Contractor business cards for the estimate visit, New Year greeting cards for the past-customer list once the job is finished, and New Year invitations that open booking season with a dated offer. Each one is quoted on its own product page, so you can order the quantities that match your route.
In what order should I print and use these pieces?
Print each ahead of its moment, then release them on the calendar. Cards go in the truck immediately because every walkthrough needs one. Greeting cards get addressed in late November and mailed the first week of December. Invitations follow in January, aimed at the same list plus the neighbors who watched you work all summer. Three pieces, three moments.
Do I really need all three pieces to grow a painting business?
You can run on cards alone, and many crews do. What cards cannot do is reach someone who is not standing in front of you. The greeting card and the invitation are how you talk to a homeowner in the eleven months between jobs. Drop either one and your only growth channel is whoever happens to call you first.
How do I keep all three pieces looking like one company?
Repeat three things on every piece and ignore everything else. The logo at the same size and the same corner, two brand colors and no more, and the phone number set large enough to read across a kitchen. Use the same paper family for the card and the invitation so the pair feels deliberate when a homeowner holds both.
Why send New Year greeting cards instead of a postcard offer?
A discount postcard is read as advertising and gets sorted into the recycling with the rest. A greeting card gets opened, stood on a shelf and looked at for two weeks. Sign it by hand, mention the room you painted, and skip the pitch. The invitation that arrives a few weeks later does the selling, and it lands on a warm reader.
What should the New Year invitation actually invite people to?
Give it a real event or a real deadline. An early-booking window with a fixed end date works, so does a walkthrough week where you price interior jobs at no charge. Vague goodwill gets no response. A date, an offer and a phone number get calls, and the invitation format makes the whole thing feel like a personal ask rather than a flyer.
How much does the full painting contractor kit cost to print?
There is no kit price, but a season of 500 cards, 100 invitations and 100 greeting cards comes to about $157. Contractor business cards start at $17.57 for 100 on 14pt gloss cover in 3 business days and reach $36.26 for 500, New Year invitations start at $19.77 for 25 and reach $42.84 for 100, and New Year greeting cards start at $56.02 for 50 in 5 and reach $77.99 for 100. Configure the quantity you need on each page to see the exact figure before checkout, with no estimate step in between.
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