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Your crew's cut lines and color changes belong on your website

Painting is the trade where the after photo does the selling. GeoUP gets it off the crew lead's phone and onto your website and social pages, with a map of where you've worked.

$18.99/month, 5 users included. Card required, cancel in two clicks.

A fresh exterior repaint changes how a whole house reads from the street, and the neighbors notice within a day. A lot of painting work comes from exactly that: somebody walks by, likes the color, and wants to know who did it. The posts on your website should catch that same moment for people who never walk by.

Painters also get judged on details a photo can show: a straight cut-in at the ceiling, no lap marks, caulked trim, crisp lines where the siding meets the soffit. Crew leads take these shots to show the owner at the end of the day, then they sink into the phone. Meanwhile the website gallery is the same six houses it launched with.

GeoUP turns those shots into a check-in: photos, the colors and products used, the location. It drafts a post and publishes it to your site and pages. A job in a neighborhood with a dozen other painters lights less of your map than one where you're the only crew around, so you can see where you're spread thin.

Jobs that make great check-ins

  • Full exterior repaint
  • Interior repaint of a whole floor
  • Kitchen cabinet refinishing
  • Deck and fence staining
  • Siding prep with wood rot repair
  • Accent walls and ceiling repaint
  • Stucco and masonry painting
  • After-hours commercial office repaint

What makes a strong check-in

Show the work your customers can't see.

Get close on the cut lines

A wide shot shows the color. A close-up of the ceiling line, a window muntin or a door casing shows the skill. Anyone who has lived with a sloppy cut-in looks there first.

Show the prep, not just the paint

Scraped and primed siding, replaced rotted trim, caulked gaps, masked floors and fixtures. Prep is most of the job and the part a customer pays for without ever seeing. One photo makes it visible.

Shoot exteriors from the curb in even light

Overcast or late afternoon light shows true color. Hard noon sun blows out light colors and flattens the trim. Take the finished shot from the street so it matches what the neighbors see.

Put the colors in the notes

Write the brand, color names and sheen for body, trim and doors. The color name is one of the first things people ask a painter, and having it in the post answers the question before they call.

One check-in, drafted for you

What GeoUP writes from a painter's check-in

An example of the kind of post GeoUP drafts from a few photos and notes. Every draft is yours to edit before it goes out.

Website post · draft

Exterior repaint with new trim color in {neighborhood}

We finished an exterior repaint on a 1970s split-level in {neighborhood}. The old paint was peeling on the south side and the fascia had soft spots behind the gutters. We pressure washed, scraped and sanded the loose paint, replaced two sections of rotted fascia and a window sill, and spot primed all bare wood. Every trim joint was recaulked before paint. The body is now a mid-tone gray in satin, with white trim in semi-gloss and a deep blue front door. Two coats on the body, two on the trim, and the crew covered all the landscaping before spraying.

What your customers type

The searches your job pages can answer

  • house painters near me
  • cabinet painting near me
  • exterior painting contractors {city}
  • interior painters {city}
  • cost to paint a 2000 sq ft house exterior
  • deck staining service near me

A page about a real job in a real neighborhood is a direct answer to a search like these. GeoUP puts one on your website every time your crew checks in.

Busy season, slow season

Keep the map lit all year.

Exterior painting runs from late spring through early fall, whenever surfaces stay dry and nights stay above what the paint is rated for. When it gets cold, crews move inside to interiors, cabinets and commercial repaints. GeoUP fades jobs from the map over about six months, so a summer full of exteriors starts going dark by winter. Checking in the interior work keeps your map lit until exterior season comes back around.

Questions from painters

Interior jobs don't show from the street. Are they worth posting?

Yes. A cabinet refinish or a full first-floor repaint makes a strong post, because the close-up detail shows: clean cut lines, smooth doors, no brush marks. Every check-in with a location counts on your territory map, whether the work is visible from the curb or not.

What does a post look like on my WordPress site?

Each check-in publishes as a post with a photo gallery, a map of the job site and schema.org structured data that describes the job for search engines. If your site isn't WordPress, whoever built it can display your posts from a read-only JSON feed. GeoUP only writes to WordPress sites.

My crew leads aren't big on phones. Will they actually use it?

If they can take a photo and type a sentence, they can do a check-in. GeoUP runs in the phone's browser and installs to the home screen like an app, with no App Store download. They can sign in with Google, an email and password, or a link sent to their email.

How much is it?

$18.99 a month per business, and that includes 5 users. Each user beyond five is $7 a month, and GeoUP asks you to confirm before adding one. Try it free for 7 days. A card is required to start but isn't charged until the trial ends. Cancel in Settings in two clicks, no contract.

Your next job is already on someone's camera roll.

Get it onto your website and your pages this week. Try GeoUP free for 7 days.

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