Founded and run by Eric Barstow, industry-leader and business coach

Eric Barstow didn’t start as a coach. He started with a ladder, a bucket, and a desire to avoid the typical 9-to-5 grind. After years of mentoring students in the industry, he founded Foothills Painting in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2010.

Like most owners, Eric hit a wall early on. He realized that more revenue usually just meant more stress—and he wanted something different. He wanted to be a great dad. He wanted to be home for the mornings, the weekends, and the moments that mattered.

He spent the next decade obsessing over the systems required to make a painting business run without the owner’s constant presence. In 2012, he founded Painting Business Pro to share those frameworks with others.

Today, Eric is the CEO of National Painting Group, a portfolio of companies currently scaling toward $150 million in annual revenue. He still works less than 30 hours a week, proving that you don’t have to sacrifice a great life to build a great business.

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We help people create freedom, discover what’s possible, and build a company people love.

For more than a decade, we've been the place painters come when they want to be done guessing. When they want a real business, not just a busy schedule. When they're ready to build something that pays them well, runs without them, and gives them a life outside of work.We are the longest-running coaching program for painting contractors in the country, and we've helped more painters cross the million-dollar mark than anyone else in the industry.

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THE Npg ECOSYSTEM

From your first million to your final exit.

Real-world testing with our own portfolio companies

National Painting Group (NPG) is our parent company and our "boots on the ground." We own and operate a portfolio of painting companies across the country, like Foothills Painting and Elk Horn Painting—both $10M painting companies. These companies serve as our "test lab"—we test every sales script, marketing strategy, and estimation process here first. If it doesn't work for us, we don't teach it to you.

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Bringing the wins to Painting Business Pro

Once a system is proven to work, we move it into Painting Business Pro. This is where we show our members how to implement the same infrastructure currently scaling our portfolio toward $150M in annual revenue. You get the benefit of our multi-million dollar annual overhead dedicated to system development and 20 years of trial and error.

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A clear path to partnership and exit

We believe the best partners are the ones who speak our language. For PBP members who scale to $3M and beyond, we offer something no one else in this industry can: institutional-grade partnership options. Whether you want a minority partner to help you scale or a full-sell exit, we provide the platform to make it happen—with zero pressure.

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