The UpFlip Podcast

What does it take to start a window cleaning business–and grow it to a revenue of $45,000 a month? Jeremiah Hickey of On the Spot Window Cleaning shares his advice in this interview. Jeremiah and his wife started On the Spot in 1998. He wanted to get out of a job with overwhelming hours and no advancement opportunity, and her business education gave her the knowledge they needed to start their own...

What makes a good leader? Bart Egnal is an expert in answering this question, drawing from his more than 20 years of experience in leadership communication training. He shares his insights in this interview.  Bart Egnal is the current CEO of The Humphrey Group, which helps entrepreneurs and executives develop better leadership skills so they can manage and communicate with their teams more effecti...

National Business Capital has helped business owners secure more than $2 billion in financing since it was started in 2007. In this interview, founder and CEO Joseph Camberato will share his insights about how to get a small business loan to drive your business growth. Before starting National Business Capital, Joe worked in real estate and had many clients who were small business owners. One of t...

Chris Mondragon has made more than $5.5 million in sales since he started his cleaning business in 2016. Today, he explains how to get cleaning contracts to achieve that kind of impressive growth with any cleaning business. If you’re a regular on UpFlip’s channels, you probably recognize Chris and his company, Queen Bee Cleaning. He and his wife started their cleaning business from scratch in 2016...

Entrepreneurs on Fire is among the most popular and profitable business podcasts, with nearly 4,000 episodes, more than 142 million listens, and an average revenue of more than $150,000 a month. Hear the EOFire team’s tips for starting a podcast in this interview.  Host John Lee Dumas started Entrepreneurs on Fire in 2012 to fill a void in the market. Their consistently valuable free content was a...

Nick Loper started Side Hustle Nation and the Side Hustle Show in 2013 to help people grow income streams beyond their day job. Ten years later, this award-winning podcast has helped thousands of entrepreneurs find a better way to make a living, and now he’s sharing his advice on the best side hustles of 2023 with the UpFlip community.  Nick’s expertise with SEO and content marketing helped him qu...

Justin Sullivan has always had a passion for aviation. It was that passion that prompted him to start his private jet charter business, a company that’s since grown to an average monthly revenue of over $2 million. AJAX Jets is just the latest of several aviation companies that Justin has founded. It serves as parent company for his other businesses, which include Private FLITE, JetEx, PJM, and Ub...

James Li knows a thing or two about how to raise money for business startup expenses. He raised more than $12 million in three rounds of business funding to start Mighty Health. Since the app’s launch in 2019, it’s been downloaded by more than 220,000 people, and the funding they raised helped to drive that success.  James wasn’t a healthcare expert before launching Mighty Health. He was inspired...

Since its launch in early 2022, Workello has helped its customers evaluate more than 30,000 candidates, quickly growing their SaaS company to a revenue of $70,000+ a month—and they’re just getting started. Find out how to start a SaaS company with the same growth potential in this interview with founder Nick Jordan. What is a SaaS company? It stands for “software as a service,” and it’s a business...

Starting your own business is an exciting achievement, but for most entrepreneurs, that’s just the first step. Knowing how to grow your business to reach your revenue goals is another challenge, and that’s where Evolve to Grow’s expertise can be a game changer. Tristan Wright started Evolve to Grow in 2017 with the goal of giving business owners more time and freedom, along with insights on how to...

Starting your own business is just the first step. Scaling a business to a 7-figure revenue requires another set of strategies and skills. Craig Swanson is an expert in both these crucial stages of a business. He’s started and grown multiple businesses, and he shares his insights with our listeners in this episode.  Craig started his first business, CreativeTechs, after dropping out of college at...

Katelyn James Photography has grown into the premier online destination for photography education. Its revenue has grown along with its reputation, generating more than $200,000 every month. That’s way beyond the $24,000 a month goal Katelyn had starting a photography business in college.  When Katelyn first started out, she was a workaholic who spent most of her time on her photography business....

At just 16, Dylan Capshaw is already earning about $10,000 in profit from his coffee and flower shop, Stemistry. If you’re wondering how to open a coffee shop, how to open a flower shop, or how a teenager combined the two into a unique small business, this episode is for you.  Dylan first made waves in 2020 when he started For the Frontline, a non-profit to help protect frontline workers during th...

Most entrepreneurs would consider running one million-dollar company enough of a challenge, but not Serge Faguet. He runs five, from the video communication platform Telefonica to the AI medicine development company Multiomic Health. He shares his insights and advice on scaling a business empire in this interview.  Balancing multiple businesses is a challenge at any size, and especially so when th...

When Doug Caris bought Arizona Painting Company in 2014, it was a single location with 40 employees. Now, they have almost 300 employees across 5 locations, generating revenue of $2 million a month with margins up to 50%. How did Doug and his partners achieve this phenomenal growth? You’ll get the answer in this episode.  Doug dreamed of owning his own business since he was a teenager. He got into...

What’s the secret to sustainable small business growth? Barry Moltz knows the answer, and has spent more than 20 years helping entrepreneurs achieve the revenue growth they’re striving for by taking simple, strategic steps. In this interview, you’ll hear his insights into how to get unstuck and get your business growing again.  Barry has started and grown three businesses–and not all of his ventur...

Stretch Zone is the fastest growing franchise in the exercise industry, and one of the fastest-growing across the United States, with plans to surpass 300 studios in 2023. Now, he’s talking to UpFlip about how to start a franchise business with that same kind of incredible growth potential.  Tony Zaccario joined the Stretch Zone team in 2016 as a general manager and quickly moved up the ranks, bec...

How would you like to make $160,000 a month in passive income? That’s life for Graham Cochrane. Even more impressive, he sees 93% or higher profit margins on his income and he started his first business with just $50.  That $50 was just about all Graham had when he started his first business in 2009. He’d just been laid off due to the recession, leaving him broke and struggling to support his fami...

Vertical printing was a new concept for North America when Paul Baron started The Wall Printer in 2019. He’s turned this innovative concept into a thriving wall printing business with a $300,000 average monthly revenue. In this interview, you’ll learn how to start a printing business with this kind of 7-figure growth potential.  The Wall Printer wasn’t Paul’s first business. A serial entrepreneur,...

Adam Haber started Trellus Same-Day Local Delivery & Marketplace to help small business owners compete with Amazon and other big box stores. In less than two years, his startup business has completed more than 35,000 deliveries from its nearly 300 merchant partners. Today, he’s sharing his advice on how to start a delivery business with this kind of fast growth potential. Adam is passionate ab...

Software developer Pace Ellsworth started App-to-Exit as a business automation tool, with the goal of helping other small business owners make better use of their time. In this episode, you’ll learn how he started and grew a $45,000 per month software development business. Pace started his software development company as Bestimate, drawing on his expertise in digital marketing and system automatio...

Eric Berman founded his digital marketing agency, Brandetize, in 2001 to manage the marketing channels for thought leader Brian Tracy. Twenty years later, they’ve grown to more than $400,000 in monthly revenue with 20% margins and served as a marketing partner to help thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and influencers establish and scale their brand.  Eric got into digital marketing in the early days...

Since it started in 2005, 1-800-Tshirts has seen a steady growth of 20-30% a year, growing the initial $50,000 investment into $500,000 a month revenue with 10% margins. In this interview, we’ll learn how founder Tom Rauen started his tshirt printing business and set it up for sustainable long-term growth. When he started his t shirt printing business, Tom had just graduated with a graphic design...

How do you start and grow an online business—and what does it take to grow a website to $1 million and beyond? Ron Stefanski started OneHourProfessor.com in 2014, and since then has grown to a portfolio of seven sites with an average revenue of $30,000 a month and phenomenal 85% profit margins.  The ironic thing is, while OneHourProfessor was Ron’s first site, it was also his first failure. In thi...

eCommerce was still a fairly new industry when Unique Vintage started 22 years ago. The company has grown with the industry, earning accolades like one of Inc 5000’s fastest-growing private companies in 2020 and Newsweek’s Best Online Shop for 2020/2021. Now, Unique Vintage founder Katie Echeverry is explaining how she started and grew this thriving online clothing store.  Unique Vintage started o...