Local SEO and Google profile for a painting company
The map pack is the whole game for a painting company, because a homeowner scrolling three results deep has already decided based on the photos and the review count. Across 88,392 listings in 51 states the median is 11 reviews, so beating your neighborhood is a smaller job than owners assume. What kills most profiles is neglect: 39.4% list no hours at all, and only 34.1% show Saturday availability, which is exactly when homeowners are home to book an estimate.
The mistake is picking General contractor as the primary category because you also do drywall and light carpentry. Primary category is the single strongest ranking lever you control on a profile, and it should be Painter, with everything else added as a secondary.
By the end of two weeks you should see impressions climb on discovery searches, more calls tagged from the profile, and photos being viewed. Full numbers by state are in the benchmark report.