Carter Olive
Founder & CEO, Crewneck Painting. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Carter Olive is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who founded StayBusy, an on-demand marketplace connecting homeowners with home service contractors. He also founded and runs Crewneck Painting, a residential and commercial painting contractor serving Greater Vancouver and British Columbia.
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Everything Carter Olive said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Olive: Stay Busy plans to charge contractors SaaS platform fees
“We want to be also SAS, which is a little tricky because we would love to eventually begin charging these contractors to be a part of our platform, if that makes sense. And that's where we're hoping to see the margins increase a little bit more.”
Carter Olive: Software marketplace is a 9-figure opportunity vs traditional painting
“The painting company. Yes, I can take it to seven, eight figures. But if I have an application, that's really awesome. And it's really changing the way that the space is going. That's like a nine figure opportunity right there.”
Olive: Involving multiple trades on a job hurts margins by slowing timelines
“If you have other trades in the project itself, right? It affects your margins because the efficiency timeline is stretched out.”
Olive: Stay Busy uses direct mail for its go-to-market strategy
“The way that we're bringing it to market is we're doing a lot of direct mail, which is a little bit non-traditional for SAS.”
Olive: Stay Busy books 500 home service jobs monthly across all channels
“Yeah, I would say about 500 a month, but more so just spread out across the services channels. So I wouldn't say that it's more, it's 500 painting. It's more just 500 services that we're booking.”
Olive: Stay Busy prices initial service bookings at breakeven
“In the beginning though, you don't like in the beginning, really, we're just trying to break even. Like we're just really trying to get the trust because we want the app to be sticky, right? We want people to trust the app and continue to use other services, r…”
Olive: Stay Busy direct mail promo acquired 200 customers in month one
“Well, in the, we just did this Grand Slam offer starting in January and then we had 200 people in the first month.”
Carter Olive: Stay Busy completed roughly 1,000 jobs in 2022
“Like, I think we were totaling a thousand.”
Carter Olive: Stay Busy's 2022 painting jobs averaged $2,700
“The average project price was around 2700.”
Carter Olive targets 5,000 completed projects for Stay Busy in 2023
“In terms of projects done, we're probably looking at, I would love to do, like, 5000, honestly.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Carter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Crewneck Painting | 1 | 11 | — | full record on Top Founders → |