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The Laundry Doctor
Control Your Own Destiny
Originally posted - Oct 08, 2013 In last month's column, I wrote about the five biggest mistakes you can make when running your drop-off laundry business. One of the pitfalls I warned against was letting your employees work for themselves – essentially allowing your...
Better Commercial Laundering Through Chemistry
Originally posted - Jan 11, 2012 You've finally decided to diversify your laundry business and take on some commercial accounts. Great! But you must understand that there are some big differences between the residential wash-dry-fold laundry you may already be doing...
Profitable Pricing
Originally posted - Feb 08, 2012 I get frequent calls from laundry owners asking me how to accurately price their commercial accounts. And the first thing I point out to them is that commercial laundry is a slightly different animal than residential wash-dry-fold...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Calculating a Workable Retail Rent, Bidding on a Commercial Account and More…
My rent payment is killing me. Is there some type of calculation as to what percentage of gross the rent should be? Ideally, your rent should be between 15 percent and 25 percent of your gross volume. When you venture into that 25 percent range, have debt service on...
Wash with Wally: Commercial Ironing, Scented Detergents and More…
My wash-dry-fold and commercial laundry businesses are going very well and my attendants are busy all day. However, I recently landed a contract with a security company to do their shirts. This client wants the shirts washed and ironed. Unfortunately, I've been having...
Wash with Wally: Cleaning Your Catch Basin, Battling Mothball Odors and More…
We've owned our small laundry in northern Minnesota for just over a year now. Recently, I noticed a slight musty odor in our store, so I crawled into our laundry wash pit to clean it out. Not only did I find a bucket full of dirt, sand, hair and lint (along with a...
The Business Mind
What If…?
Four Common Questions That Keep First-Time Laundry Owners Up at Night First-time laundry owners are an interesting group. Based on my 30 years of experience as a distributor working with many of them, the typical rookie operator is overflowing with nervous enthusiasm...
The 7 Qualities of a Profitable Marketer
Boost Your Laundry Business by Developing These Critical Skills Marketing is every laundry owner's link to the outside world. It's how you persuasively encourage people to repeatedly purchase your products and services. Conceptually, it's just that simple. However, it...
More Thoughts Off the Top of My Head
Observations on Life and the Laundry Business - The Sequel Just over a year ago, I wrote a column in this space, which was entitled, "Thoughts Off the Top of My Head."And it was so well-received that I felt a sequel was in order. As I noted in the original article,...
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