Jennifer McEachern was working her way through life as a director of marketing for a national chain of nightclubs before she landed a job at Action Painting Pros of Charlotte, NC, which had been doing commercial and residential painting in the Charlotte area since 2003. Jennifer was simply looking for a temporary job to fill the gap while she worked on finding her next career. So she took a sales representative position for the company. But although Jennifer planned on moving to a different place life had different plans for her.

It just so happened that, unbeknownst to her, she was in the right place at the right time. The owner of the company, at the time, was planning on alleviating himself from the responsibilities of business ownership by selling the company. This opportunity instantly interested Jennifer because she had the business fortitude to see what Action Painting Pros could be. She could see that it was a potentially lucrative business, it just needed the right management and marketing. So, in 2008, Jennifer purchased Action Painting Pros with a business partner.

Although the acquisition of Action Painting Pros was smooth, the early days of her ownership, of the business, were not. Instead they were filled with much adversity. In the first six months Jennifer faced many financial challenges, one of them being $12,000 in corporate debt compounded by the departure of her business partner. To make matters worse, this was the time of the economic downturn of 2008 which made things even harder for her young ownership.

Through this adversity Jennifer learned many lessons that helped her bring Action Painting Pros from the brink of disaster and make it a successful painting and covering business in Charlotte NC. One of the major lessons she learned is that the company does not define her, she defines the company. The company’s problems and failures are not representative of her but instead a challenge meant for her to overcome.

Her ability to remove herself and her emotions from the company so, in the hard times, it didn’t drag her down was a catalyst in the company’s success. She was able to stand back and see the troubled state of the company with honesty. But instead of feeling hopeless about it, she allowed her strong will and determination to make the necessary adjustments to point Action Painting Pros in the right direction.

Action Painting Pros today is a thriving business in the Charlotte, NC area that offers a multitude of services including detailed paint work, epoxy coatings, wall covering installation, and airless spraying. They’ve grown substantially over the years and have accomplished a large number of projects varying from retail stores to apartment and condo communities and upscale single family homes in the Charlotte NC metropolitan area. (We work from Lake Wylie to Lake Norman)