Wash With Wally: Assessing the Value of Your Laundry Business
I have been in the vended laundry business for more than 30 years, and I’m now ready to retire. My question is how to establish a fair selling price. I own the building and the business. How do I value each? The first step is to get a bank appraisal on your property....
Better Living Through Science
Four Research Findings Sure to Benefit You and Your Laundry Business With an advanced degree in clinical psychology and being a member of the American Psychological Association, I am a regular reader of a number of technical journals in the field. Not surprisingly,...
Knowledge Is King
Another year has come and gone faster than I could have imagined. Many times, I think about my mother, who is in her 90s, talking about how “time flies by so fast” that she couldn’t imagine how it could ever get any faster the next year – but that it always...
Up Close: An Interview with the Blue Kangaroo’s Neil Polifka
Business is Hopping: An Exclusive Chat with Neil Polifka, Vice President of Marketing and Store Development for The Blue Kangaroo Chain Whit Hughes established the Hughes Equipment Co. in 1958. He was one of the industry’s earliest coin laundry distributors. And, for...
Marketing Trends to Adopt in 2019
These Four Growing Technologies and Promotional Methods Deserve Your Attention The marketing industry is relentless, and it likes to think big. Every year, new technologies and marketing methods emerge that seek to make it easier for businesses like yours win new...
Protecting Your Assets
Critical Insurance Coverage and Considerations for Today’s Laundry Owners [This is the first in an ongoing series of articles covering business insurance issues for vended laundry owners.] Insurance. Ugh! Who really wants to think about it? After all,...
2018: A Look Back
Recapping the Past Year… And Taking a Glimpse into the Industry’s Future It’s that time of year again – a time to reminisce about the 365 days gone by – and to try to predict what the next 365 have in store. Everyone does it – from the largest television networks to...Laundry Land Hosts Free Laundry Event in Virginia Beach
More than 1,000 pounds of clothes and linens were recently washed and dried at no charge at the Laundry Land laundromat in the Aragona Village Shopping Center in Virginia Beach, Va. On October 23, Laundry Land hosted a LaundryCares-sponsored free laundry day, which...TLC Tri-State Laundry Hires Industry Veteran Art Roy
TLC Tri-State Laundry Companies, based in Valdosta, Ga., has hired industry veteran Art Roy, who will represent that company’s Vended Laundry Division throughout the state of North Carolina. Originally from Cleveland, Roy began his career by selling laundry and...
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