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Get Sales Out of Your Online Marketing Setup
Six Steps to Properly Setting Up Your Sales FunnelWhen laundry owners contact me about increasing their wash-dry-fold businesses, converting more foot traffic or getting their pickup services off the ground, one of the first things I look at is whether or not their...
Get Sales Out of Your Online Marketing Setup
Six Steps to Properly Setting Up Your Sales FunnelWhen laundry owners contact me about increasing their wash-dry-fold businesses, converting more foot traffic or getting their pickup services off the ground, one of the first things I look at is whether or not their...
Business Bio: McPherson Express Laundry Center
Todd and Debra Whitehill Evan Whitehill Tom Aumiller McPherson Express Laundry Center McPherson, Kan. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Todd and Evan Whitehill also own an independent insurance agency. Tom Aumiller is a facilities manager. And Debra...
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Laundrylux Acquires Golden State Laundry Systems
Laundrylux, headquartered in Inwood, N.Y., has acquired the assets of California-based Golden State Laundry Systems. “We are thrilled to partner with Mike and Laura Hurrell and the Golden State team in San Diego, Los Angeles and the Bay Area to serve the...
Business Bio: Laundry Lounge Coronado
Liz and Nick Merrill Laundry Lounge Coronado Coronado Island, Calif. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Liz and Nick had previously established Sweat Equity Gym, a fitness center based in Bellevue, Wash. In fact, the couple’s vended laundry in Coronado is...
Messe Frankfort Acquires Clean Show
It’s a Win-Win: New Deal to Create Enhanced Industry Event, While Building a Stronger Trade Association The Clean Show Executive Committee has announced that it has finalized a deal to sell the biennial industry event to Messe Frankfurt, the largest trade show and...
The CLA: What It Does for You – The List is Long and Its Value is Growing
As we move forward into 2019, the industry will see a significant shift in how the Coin Laundry Association operates and the educational products and resources it produces. Every change is part of the CLA Board of Directors’ long-term plan to grow and enhance the...
Wash With Wally: Vend Pricing, Flooring Options, and More…
I want to increase the vend prices on my washing machines. What is the best method for making these changes? The best way to increase your washer prices is to raise the pricing on one size of washer at a time. For example, increase the cost of your 50-pound machines...
Is 2019 the Year You Finally Become a Laundry Owner?
If Operating Your Own Vended Laundry Business is Your New Year’s Resolution, Read This First On New Year’s Day, I know two things to be true. First, throngs of men and women from coast to coast will become members of their local fitness clubs or big-box gyms, which...
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 does. What...
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,...
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This Month's Issue
- House of Laundromats: Real Estate Trends and What to Watch
- Member Spotlight: Bringing a Century of Expertise to the Evolving Laundromat Industry
- PlanetLaundry Podcast: Reimagining Community: How the Hub Laundromat Cafe is a Change Catalyst in Detroit
- Women In Vended Laundry: How Adrienne Hurrington Keeps the Wheels Turning as SAMCO
- And More…
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GNA Honors 2020 Distributors of the Year
Girbau North America recently recognized several distributors for outstanding sales and service in 2020. Fowler Laundry Solutions, based in Union, N.J., received the Vended Laundry and Multi-Housing Distributor of the Year awards; Sunshine Sales, headquartered in...
Speed Queen Adds Alliance Laundry Equipment to Distributor Network
Speed Queen recently announced the addition of Alliance Laundry Equipment to its distributor network. Alliance Laundry Equipment will represent the Speed Queen brand throughout Utah and Colorado, as well as parts of Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming. The company will take on...
HappyNest Names Chief Revenue Officer
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has named Jeanne Hopkins its new chief revenue officer. Hopkins has 30 years of experience in marketing technology and data, with a reputation for building sustainable customer and team relationships while bridging the gap...
Starchup, Laundry Locker Announce License Agreement
Starchup Inc. and Laundry Locker Inc. (dba DropLocker) have entered into a strategic agreement to license DropLocker’s patents and other intellectual property related to the storage, pickup and delivery of laundry, drycleaning and household items to lockers and...
New CLA White Paper: Creating a Successful Business Plan
The Coin Laundry Association has released its newest white paper, which focuses on how to create a comprehensive business plan for a laundromat operation. The main purpose of a business plan is to provide an entrepreneurial “roadmap,” as well as to set realistic...
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The Business Mind
To ‘Coin’ a Phrase
Originally posted - Apr 25, 2014 The most popular and traditional way to keep up with information about one's specific business or profession is by simply reading information offered by knowledgeable individuals who also reside within, or are closely related to, that...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Wrinkle-Free Table Clothes
Originally posted - Jun 04, 2014 I service a commercial account that has just purchased some rather inexpensive, polyester table clothes that wrinkle when washed. Even the client admits that she bought an inferior product. We pretreat these items, wash them in warm...
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Strategic Corporate Allies Program
Our Strategic Corporate Allies support CLA’s mission through advocacy, education, and innovation to strengthen the industry, advance our members’ businesses, and prepare the next generation of laundry professionals for the future.
Interested in becoming a Strategic Corporate Ally of CLA? Contact President & CEO, Brian Wallace via email at [email protected] or call (630) 491-0499.
