We recently connected with Evan Steger and have shared our conversation below.

Evan, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – walk us through the story?

My entire career has been a giant risk. First off my business is a luxury to most people and not a necessity. Metal polishing isn’t something anyone has to do. It’s something most want done to look better out on the road. I started my business working just weekends around my regular scheduled job for extra money. But it quickly spiraled into a second full time job. I quit my full time job to pursue my own business venture at the same year I got married and bought my first home. Smart move right. lol. Then the recession hit 2 years later. We survived the recession by pinching Pennie’s and staying hunkered down. Fast forward to traveling for tv shows and trade shows to now starting my own product line if detailing and polishing products. The products were a heavy undertaking monetarily and has grown into over doubling the business. Without the risk we wouldn’t have gotten the rewards of all my years of labor. Now in my 26th year of business I can still remember the 16-20 hour workdays it took to get here. 7 meats a week and no vacations put into place a pattern for success.

Evan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Evan Steger. I grew up in a small town on a little farm. My father was a welder and a great hardworking family man and my mother was a stay at home mom. We grew up with very little money and always had everything we needed but not many extras. This humble beginning set the tone for my entire life. I started working at the age of 12 for farm friends of our family for whatever odd jobs they had that could make money. Fast forward to 16 when I got my driver’s license I started driving to the local bigger city for a bigger and better job opportunity. I excelled in school and managed to take college courses in high school. After high school I continued my education wanting to pursue a career in psychology. After trying that out I couldn’t do it. The weight of people’s unhappiness weighed too much on me. So I pursued my next best which was industrial engineering. I got an apprenticeship doing that but quickly hated being locked up in the office everyday. So I moved back and focused on what was my dude business of metal polishing and focused on making it a full time career. When I first started pushing hard in my business others in my trade were old, into drugs, and not very reliable. I focused on being a clean business that got dirty. Metal polishing is a very dirty job. Once the business took off I stared a YouTube channel to help teach others what I had learned in hopes of helping get more young entrepreneurs into the trade. Blue collar is what I grew up in and it’s what I always gravitate to. The YouTube channel grew really strong early on and hit me known in the industry quickly. I’m still shocked to this day the people from all over the world that reach out to thank me for the informative content or meet me at shows for a picture or signature. Truly humbled by peoples gratitude. I love what I get to do everyday. This industry has led me to a few reality tv shows and numerous celebrities. It’s been a hell of a ride.

Have you ever had to pivot?

I worked with a product company that I thought would help propel my business forward and help me grow without a huge investment. Turns out most great things in business come with a hitch. I found myself compromising my integrity to continue getting ahead. Instead I left that company and started my own product company now called time2shine products llc. With heading my own product company I can dictate my own path for marketing and future growth. It wasn’t easy and wasn’t cheap but I knew with my own investment I could push myself instead of someone else.

Can you open up about how you funded your business?

Beautiful thing about metal polishing is if you want to work mobile all you need is an around $1,000 to get started. As my business grew the scaling was the expensive part. I worked mobile for a long time to get a bank to consider getting me a loan for a standing structure building to work out of. There aren’t many comparable for banks to look at in my industry for funding. When we did finally get a loan it was a short term 15 year loan. I went out and scrounged up as much work as I could to get enough work to make it possible. We often times played the credit card game. Taking out zero interest for a year cards and transferring balances to make it work during tough/slow times. Fart forward to know we have half a million in available credit at any given time. Far stretch from our $1,000 make ends meet initial investment. But it didn’t just happen or fall into my lap. Lots of sleepless nights and days away from family to make it happen.

Contact Info:

• Website: Goshineon.Com
• Instagram: Metalpolisher3826
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvansDetailingAndPolishing?mibextid=LQQJ4d
• Youtube: Youtube.Com/evanstegermetalpolishing