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Successful Painter

For Residential & Commercial Painting Contractors

Turn more painting leads into closed jobs.

Our system will get your painting business listed #1 on Google in your city.

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We work with a limited number of painting contractors at a time.

  • Build response automation live in your first 7 days
  • Bring consistency to your business and booking calendar
  • Eliminate complexity within your sales process
Jonathan Deleon, founder of Successful Painter

What contractors say

Reviews from the businesses we work with.

These are published Google reviews, quoted as written. Most name Next Level Marketing, the agency Successful Painter grew out of — we leave that wording exactly as the reviewer left it.

18 five-star reviewsRead them on Google
Working with Jonathan and Next Level Marketing on social media coaching has been a game changer for my business.…

Charles Bennett

1 review

1 week ago

Jonathan is an outstanding coach! He really helped me understand how to get over my fears of being on camera and help me…

Douglas Letcher

1 review

12 weeks ago

Next Level Marketing absolutely nailed my website. I came in with a lot of moving parts and specific needs, and they…

Amber Parkes

Local Guide • 13 reviews

14 weeks ago

Great company to work with. Very responsive. My company uses the AI answering service. It is a very good service and works well. Very happy.

Elite Plumbing Services

5 reviews

25 weeks ago

Next Level Marketing did an outstanding job helping HM Accounting Services LLC upgrade our digital presence. They built…

Chachy Moreno

Local Guide • 15 reviews

25 weeks ago

I just started my journey with Next Level Marketing Agency. Jonathan is a super nice guy to do business with. He really…

Shayne Longboat

Local Guide • 4 reviews

44 weeks ago

Working with Jonathan and his team at Next Level Marketing has been an absolute game-changer. Their communication,…

Hagen Tucker

12 reviews

51 weeks ago

Wow, I spend the money to have a session with Jonathan and it was worth every penny. He lit a fire under me to get my business to where is needs to be. Thank you Jonathan. You alone will change the World.!

Gail Carpenter

Local Guide • 18 reviews

Jul 23, 2025

My experience with Jonathan from Next Lvl Marketing Agency has been really awesome. Jonathan is very knowledgeable in…

Carla Thomas-Moultrie

4 reviews

Jul 14, 2025

Jonathan's coaching on my social media ad and content campaigns has been invaluable. He's a wealth of insight and…

Cole Scharlau

Local Guide • 44 reviews

Jun 27, 2025

Starting a business isn’t always easy, so finding creative ways to reach the right audience is essential. Jonathan was…

Szymon P

3 reviews

Jun 25, 2025

I recently had the pleasure of working with Next Level Marketing Agency to build my website, and I couldn't be happier…

Jeff Temkin

3 reviews

May 21, 2025

Working with Jonathan has been a breath of fresh air! He is always full of ideas and creative ways to help us grow and…

Discovery Chiropractic

1 review

May 19, 2025

Jonathan and the team at Next Lvl Marketing have been great to work with! Everyone has been incredibly helpful every…

Samantha Beckwith

2 reviews

Apr 29, 2025

When it’s comes to marketing, Jonathan has some great strategies to drive more traffic to your business! If need help getting more eyes on your business reach out to him!

Marcus McMorris

7 reviews • 2 photos

Apr 28, 2025

If you’re looking to take your YouTube presence to the next level, Jonathan at Next Level Marketing is the expert you…

Daniel Komforti

Local Guide • 88 reviews

Apr 4, 2025

Working with Jonathan has been a godsend. He helped me transition over from a situation that left very much to be…

Philip James

5 reviews

Apr 4, 2025

Jonathan has been so helpful in growing my business and presence on my social media platforms. He took my single digit…

Traci McKinley Sedlock

Local Guide • 19 reviews

Oct 29, 2024

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How it works

Three moving parts, in plain English.

We do them in this order on purpose. Responding faster costs you nothing extra and works with the leads you already get — so it goes first.

01

Answer every lead immediately

Nobody sits waiting for a callback

The moment someone asks you for a price, they hear back — a text and an email go out straight away, and a real person follows up to sort out a time. You are not losing work because you were up a ladder when the phone rang. This is the part we install first, because it is the part we control completely.

New enquiry — response timeline

  1. 2:14 pm

    Homeowner submits an enquiry

    Exterior repaint request comes in from your website

  2. 2:14 pm

    Automatic text and email go out

    “Thanks! When is a good time for a quick look?”

  3. 2:15 pm

    Call placed while they are still interested

    Enquiry is qualified before it goes cold

  4. 2:21 pm

    Estimate booked on your calendar

    Thursday, 9:00 am — you just show up

Illustrative example
02

Be the painter they can find

Show up where people already look

When someone nearby searches for a painter, we work on making sure your business is there to be found, with the details, photos and reviews that make people comfortable calling you. This is steady, compounding work on your visibility — not a switch we flip.

google.com
painters near me

Local results

Your Painting Company

Painting contractor · Open now

Your listing
Illustrative example
03

Add new demand on top

Put your name in front of more of the right people

Once you are answering fast and you are easy to find, we add paid traffic to bring more enquiries in. Every one of them is yours alone — never sold on to the four other painters in your area, the way the lead-selling sites do it.

Incoming opportunities

This week's enquiries

Exclusive to you

  • Exterior repaint

    Northside

    Ads

  • Cabinet refinish

    Lakeview

    Search

  • Office interior

    Downtown

    Ads

  • Deck and fence

    Westbrook

    Search
Illustrative example

Where this leads

Industry exposure that attracts higher-quality prospects.

Most painters do not want more tyre-kickers. They want bigger, better jobs and steadier clients — and eventually, commercial work.

Better prospects, not just more of them

A business that answers straight away and looks established attracts a different kind of enquiry than one that takes two days to call back.

Commercial buyers check you out first

Property managers, offices and HOAs look you up before they ever pick up the phone. Being easy to find and easy to trust is what gets you on the list.

Exposure inside the trade

As your name gets more visible in your area, more of the work that comes your way is the kind you actually want to quote.

To be straight with you: we cannot promise you commercial contracts. That depends on your market, your pricing and your crew. What we can do is make sure you are visible and credible enough to be considered.

Two Ways to Grow

One keeps you chasing work. The other builds a system that consistently brings the right work to you.

Before

Chasing the next painting job

  • Depending on referrals and inconsistent word of mouth
  • Competing for shared or low-quality leads
  • Following up manually after prospects have already lost interest
  • Accepting smaller jobs just to keep the calendar full
  • Operating without a predictable sales or booking process

After

Building a painting business that attracts the right opportunities

Gain greater industry exposure and attract higher-quality, more qualified prospects with an offer that aligns with the needs of your ideal customers.

Build a system that consistently attracts, responds to, qualifies, and books ideal painting customers on autopilot.

  • Become more visible when prospects search for painters in your city
  • Attract better-qualified residential and commercial opportunities
  • Position an offer around the customers and projects you want
  • Respond to new opportunities automatically
  • Create greater consistency across your sales pipeline and booking calendar

Stop relying on inconsistent demand. Build the visibility, offer, response, and sales systems that make growth more predictable.

Our commitment

In your first seven days, we install your lead response.

Not a number we hope to hit later. A specific piece of work, done in the first week, on the leads you are already getting today.

Instant reply on every new enquiry

The second someone asks for a price, a text and an email go out with your name on them.

Missed calls get a text back

If you are on a job and cannot pick up, they get a message instead of a dial tone.

Follow-up that keeps going

If someone goes quiet, they hear from you again — without you having to remember to chase.

Booking straight onto your calendar

Times are confirmed and land in your diary, so your day is set before you start it.

Why this and not a guarantee: how many jobs you close depends on your pricing, your crew and your market — things we do not control. How fast your leads get answered is something we control completely. So that is what we put our name to.

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Jonathan Deleon with his son at a family art event

Jonathan Deleon

Founder, Successful Painter

Who you'll be talking to

Why I work with painters.

I’m Jonathan Deleon. I am blessed with two children and a supportive wife, and I am a follower of Jesus. I am located in Orlando, FL, and I feel called to support business owners with some of their most challenging problems — typically that problem is growing their business with technology.

In my career I have acquired over 17 years of experience in digital marketing, working with some of the biggest brands in the US. One of those brands is Lowe’s Home Improvement, where for over 6 years I’ve been supporting digital A/B testing that consistently generates over $100 million in additional revenue across their website and mobile app.

Lowe's Home Improvement

6+ years supporting digital A/B testing for Lowe's Home Improvement.

I have run multiple marketing agencies supporting many different businesses across all industries, and I have found there’s a specific type of industry I am drawn to — and that is painting. Painters have a simple business model that aligns well with the ability to grow and scale using our Celebrity Painter System. Being known, being searchable, and having great speed-to-lead follow-up significantly help our painting clients tackle slow seasons and keep predictability in their business.

I look forward to meeting with you on a call and helping you grow your painting business.

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Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Painting contractors who already have work coming in and want to stop losing it. Residential or commercial, crew or owner-operator. If you have no enquiries at all yet, or you cannot get to an estimate within a few days, this is not the right time for us to work together.

We take on a limited number of painting contractors, and we only take one per area so we are never competing against our own clients. The call is a two-way conversation to work out whether your business is a fit. If it is not, we will tell you.

We install your lead response. Every new enquiry gets an instant text and email, missed calls get a text back, follow-up keeps running if someone goes quiet, and confirmed times land on your calendar. It works on the leads you are already getting, so it does not depend on new traffic to be useful.

None. We build it, run it and manage it. Your job is to turn up to the estimates and do the work you are good at.

Those platforms sell the same enquiry to several painters at once, which is why you end up competing on price with people who are still shopping around. Every lead we generate is yours alone. We follow it up, qualify it, and get it booked — you are not buying a name off a list.

Not much day to day. Turn up to the estimates, give us quick feedback after appointments so we can adjust, and tell us which jobs closed. That last part matters — it is how we know what is working.

Yes. The same three parts apply. We cannot promise you commercial contracts, because that depends on your pricing, capacity and market — but we can make sure the people who buy that work can find you and get a fast reply when they reach out.

Most agencies hand over raw leads and disappear. We start with the part we fully control — how fast your leads get answered — and we commit to having that installed in the first week. We would rather be judged on work we can actually deliver than on a number we cannot control.

It depends on your market and the scope you need, so we go through it properly on the call rather than quoting a number that may not apply to you. You will know the full cost before you decide anything, and there is no obligation on the call.

Book a call

Let's find out if this fits your market

A 30-minute call to look at your current visibility, how fast leads get a response today, and whether your service area has room for what we do. If it is not a fit, we will tell you on the call.

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