by Stephen Bean | May 26, 2015 | The Business Mind
Adopting the Legendary Boxer’s Personal Philosophy Can Turn You into a Champion of Business All of the buzz surrounding the recent high stakes Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao welterweight title fight got me thinking about boxing’s heyday in the 1960s and...
by Stephen Bean | May 5, 2015 | The Business Mind
Developing Your Listening Skills Will Help to Make You a Much Better Laundry Owner Open any anatomy book (or just look in the mirror), and you will quickly see that members of the human species have two ears and one mouth. Perhaps the original designer had in mind, as...
by Stephen Bean | Mar 26, 2015 | The Business Mind
Understanding the Individual Nature of Your Employees Will Make You a More Successful Laundry Owner It is generally accepted that there are – give or take – approximately 30,000 self-service laundries operating within the United States. Therefore, it’s likely...
by Stephen Bean | Feb 12, 2015 | The Business Mind
Like all businesses, self-service laundries succeed or fail for a myriad of reasons. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to interview scores of laundry owners – and, when I do, I always ask them why they think they either have succeeded or perhaps not...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 30, 2015 | The Business Mind
Change is Omnipresent, and It’s Not Going Away – Embrace It! “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Dr. Viktor Frankl, noted Austrian psychiatrist Did you know that the word...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 25, 2015 | The Business Mind
[ Originally posted – Feb 17, 2012 Words are extremely powerful in the world of marketing. In fact, I’d argue that nothing is more important. Every word you choose for your advertising will either help you or hurt you. Not many words are neutral in their...