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John Evans started EverLine Coatings in his backyard fresh out of college. From these humble beginnings, his pavement maintenance and road painting business has grown to nearly 100 franchise locations across the US and Canada, with a total revenue of $2.8 million a year. In this video, you’ll learn how this entrepreneur launched such a successful franchise from scratch.
EverLine coatings wasn’t John’s first venture into entrepreneurship. While still in college, he joined the College Pro Painters program and became one of their top performing painting franchisees. The lessons learned from that experience set him up for fast growth when he ventured into the pavement and line striping industry with EverLine.
John chose the line painting and pavement maintenance industry because he saw there was a lack of well-branded, professional companies in this space. In this interview, he’ll share how he identified this as a niche with tons of growth potential, along with his advice for other entrepreneurs looking for a business where they can satisfy an unmet demand.
While he’s successful now, John still had his setbacks and failures. He lost tens of thousands during his first year with College Pro and had other struggles along the way. He’ll explain why these kinds of failures are necessary for growth and how he bounced back from his mistakes to build EverLine into a thriving, scalable business.
If you learned something from this interview and want to see more like it, check out some of UpFlip’s past videos:
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Resources
https://everlinecoatings.com/ – Learn more about EverLine on their website
https://franchise.upflip.com/everline-coatings-and-services – EverLine Franchise
https://www.upflip.com/courses – UpFlip courses – Success Starts Here
https://www.eosworldwide.com/ – Get a grip on your business with the Entrepreneurial Operating System
https://www.amazon.sg/dp/1936661837 – Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
https://www.amazon.sg/dp/0316219266 – The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
https://www.amazon.sg/dp/1442394935/ – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
https://www.amazon.sg/dp/0399592091 – The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
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Most Important part to starting any business is finance. How to get the capital to kickstart your idea 💡. I personally went through hell starting my business operation few years ago. Moreover, it also very difficult to pay for marketing and advertising, which are crucial for attracting customers. All thanks to a local lender that got me approved for $500k business loan and my business took a turn ❤. Thanks for sharing your story with us John
Software development company and technology company please
I certainly had never thought of such a business…very interesting indeed. I was thinking, it would also be nice to see some sort of aviation services business, such as a mechanic or logistics service…not something I know anything about but would be interested in seeing that sort of business featured. Best wishes and happy Samhain, love from Scotland
Would like to see an HVAC business. I appreciate your videos. I've been subscribed and watching since the views were only a few 100 per video. Now this channel is almost to 1 million subscribers and doing several 100,000 views per video. Some videos even have a million. The channel itself is a great example of entrepreneurship. Never giving up! I really appreciate that you guys show us businesses that are overlooked and aren't looked at as glamorous. Alot of videos pretty much focus on the "sexy" businesses.
0:07: 💰 A college graduate with $500 to his name builds a multimillion dollar company by hustling, innovating, and scaling to 51 locations in just nine months.
4:04: ! The speaker lost $25,000 in the first year of starting College Pro due to underbidding projects, hiring friends, and not understanding financials.
7:55: ✨ The interviewee discusses their experience on the show 'Dragons' Den' and the impact it had on their business.
11:31: 💡 The video showcases the Graco Line Laser 3900 machine used for spray painting.
15:11: 📚 The video discusses the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and the decision they have to make when faced with a crisis of meaning.
19:01: 💼 John Evans discusses the challenges faced by his company, EverLine Coatings and Services, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
23:40: 💼 The video discusses the revenue potential and profit margin in the crack filling industry.
27:12: 📚 Franchising allows entrepreneurs to be in business for themselves, but not by themselves, with guidelines to operate within, providing a proven model with less risk.
31:09: 📈 Scaling too fast can be challenging and potentially detrimental to a business.
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First step – leave Canada.
This guy sounds like a Psych major with all his talk
Yay my favorite interviewer is back 🙂
Been a quiet supporter of Mr. Evans for nearly 2 decades now. I'm so happy that John's drive, determination and brilliance is shared with such a wider audience now. Those that knew/know John from 'back in the day' are not one bit surprised by his growth rate or sucess. I absolutely love to watch Everline grow with pride. Even as one of those first "friends" that were using the google docs sheets to make some of those first gorilla marketing calls. All thr congratulations in the world John!
Love this channel, very motivational, keep making more content.
wow good nice❤❤❤
Are you able to do an episode on the home heating oil delivery business? There’s no information online about it.
So he paid 30k for a license to sell special paint?? I’m confused
Boom!!! Facts!!!
Ok so this is a bit of a deception vid, like SOOO many other business success stories. The real crucial bits are glossed over and the sexy parts of "hey look at this guy/gal and this amazing business they built from the ground up" are highlighted.
The real crucial bit that was glossed over is this "getting a line of credit from the bank" part of it.
It's casually thrown out there and then we move on. Well, if you've ever been young and broke and tried to do that, you quickly realize how hard it is and without help, without someone else who's already got money co-signing for you, you're going to struggle mightily.
I even had successful business men introduce me to their bankers, trying to help me get started. One of these bankers casually flipped all the paperwork I'd worked on for hours and hours back at me and said "I can't help you. The best thing you can do is to buy a house ASAP then you'll have some assets to post as collateral for the loan."
This guy had much more help than is being talked about here. Someone, probably a parent, co-signed for the loan.
He said he graduated college at 21….well there's more to that story too. Most graduates have a mountain of student debt. If he didn't then that needs to be addressed in the vid also because that's not most people's stories. So either his parents paid for his education or he had scholarships or both but if he was able to secure a LOC for his business without a co-signer, then he 100% had help in paying for college and that needs to be addressed also.
Vids like this are simply the modern day version of the "self help movement" of the 80s and 90s and what we learned from that era is that most of the times the success is not repeatable because crucial and key details are not discussed. People get deluded into thinking "If he can do it, so can I" and that's 100% NOT TRUE because these other factors I have been explaining are crucial to his success, not fully discussed and are not available to most people.
I mean everything after that is good stuff. Bootstrapping a biz and the whole building a plane as you're flying it is all well and good but none of that happens without the financing.
Hello friend's, I appreciate your information it's good to know all those things that could happen, am about to start up my cargo van business, thank you so much!
Can you do a video on a welding business? Possibly like a mobile welding business or smth? I know a few YouTubers that share there work is like Austin Ross or Metal Melting Anthony.
Can somebody please help me understand how some service businesses are using 1099 contractors in states where it is not accepted anymore. Ex: how can a cleaning business in California use 1099 contractors?
What is profit margin? That’s the REAL Question
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I do this for work! I’m going to do this as a side hustle