by Stephen Bean | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – Oct 04, 2013 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” – Aristotle In my view, the only thing perpetually common to your laundry business is you. Customers come and go, attendants come and go, landlords come and go… even machines...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – Nov 14, 2012 As we all know, big businesses have big marketing budgets on which they spend big dollars and, often times, achieve big results. So, here’s the big question: can a small business – like your coin laundry – use big-business...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – Jun 27, 2014 I once read that “the ability to find energy and power from what we can’t know or control provides an immense competitive advantage.” Of course, as self-service laundry owners, we can only know so much about our...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – Nov 26, 2012 The paramount universal truism of business is that all customers are people. Therefore, it’s logical to assume that, if we become proficient at understanding the psychology of the human organism, we should end up as...
by Bob Nieman | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – Apr 12, 2013 “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...
by Stephen Bean | Jan 21, 2015 | The Business Mind
Originally posted – May 29, 2012 A fellow hands me a bag containing six marbles – five of the marbles of white and one is black – and he asks me to blindly draw a marble from the bag. If it’s white, he says he’ll pay me $20; however, if...