PlanetLaundry Podcast
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On the ‘Home’ Front
Grow Your Laundry Business by Offering Today's Homeowners What They Want For years, the general consensus had been that competing self-service laundries shared a finite customer base within a given marketplace. Following this line of reasoning, a new store in the...
Up and Running, Part 2
Store Owners Share Their Strategies for Keeping Laundry Equipment in Service and Operating Smoothly [This is the second part in a series on equipment repairs and maintenance.] In last month's cover story, a number of laundry owners shared their strategies and personal...
Yelp, SEO and Your Laundry Business
Laundry's Greatest Love (and Hate) Affair There are few things in business that are constant. Prices change, markets are always in flux, and each year it seems there are new innovations that attempt to shake up the way we all do our jobs. You might even say that the...
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Industry Roundtable: What’s Next for the Laundry Business?
Leading Manufacturers Weigh In on the Current State of the Vended Laundry Industry – And Where They See It HeadedWhat's ahead for the vended laundry industry?The resurgent U.S. economy of recent years has strengthened and grown the laundromat business in nearly every...
WASH Upgrades Laundry Rooms with PayRange Mobile Payment
WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems - which has more than 7 million people doing their laundry in its WASH-branded laundry rooms every week throughout the U.S. and Canada - has selected PayRange to be the technology provider of its mobile payment solution, thus marking a...
Profit Symposium Attracts Record Numbers
Continental Girbau West and Elite Business Investments recently hosted the Conference of Champions Profit Symposium in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The event, which focused on ways to improve vended laundry profits and attract new customers, drew record numbers. The...
Commercial Equipment Company to Host Spring Open House
Commercial Equipment Company will hold its annual open house, service school and equipment showcase on May 19 at the company's headquarters in Farmers Branch, Texas. This event - which is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - will feature extensive educational...
It’s Time to Think About Excellence
Earl Nightingale in his famous audio recording, "The Strangest Secret", states, "We become what we think about." Napoleon Hill wrote in his book, "Think and Grow Rich", that, "The way to success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge." Leaders throughout...
Yankee Equipment Hosts 40th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Sales and Educational Event
Yankee Equipment Systems, based in Barrington, N.H., recently hosted its 40th annual St. Patrick's Day Sales and Education Exhibition at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Mass. This well-attended event gave attendees an opportunity to examine the latest offerings from some...
Uber to Shutter Its On-Demand Small-Item Delivery Service
On June 30, Uber will sunset its on-demand delivery service for laundry, groceries, flowers and other items under 30 pounds. The ride-hailing service has notified its users in an email that it will be shutting down UberRush, which has been doing deliveries for...
PayRange Names New VP of Sales
PayRange Inc. - a developer of app-based mobile payment systems for automated retail based in Portland, Ore. - has named Cecil Ledesma its new vice president of enterprise sales. Ledesma spent the last 20 years at USA Technologies, most recently leading the company's...
Statewide Wraps Up Spring Road Shows
Statewide Laundry Equipment – with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami – recently finished its three-day series of annual spring road shows, beginning on March 13 in Tampa at TPepin's Hospitality Centre, followed by a stop in Orlando on March 14, and...
Aaxon Donates Laundry Equipment to High School Wrestling Team
Aaxon Laundry Systems has donated a Huebsch washer and dryer to the wrestling program at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The equipment was installed in the locker room area and enables the coaches and student athletes to wash their athletic gear,...
Creating a Buzz
Here's a Look at the Advantages of Word of Mouth Advertising – And How Your Laundry Business Can Best Leverage ThemWay back, long before social media, the internet, television, radio, printing or even "business" itself (at least as we are familiar with it these days),...
Wash with Wally: Removing Commercial Laundry Stains and More…
I own a successful coin laundry in a small town in the Midwest. One of my promotions is giving my customers free detergent - all they need Monday through Friday. The problem I have is that some of the customers use too much of the detergent and over-suds the washers....
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This Month's Issue
- ‘I’d Like to Speak to the Manager’: On the Front Lines with Some of the Laundry Industry’s Leading Store Managers
- Business Management: Generate Additional Income Through Greater Market Penetration
- Company Close-Up: Western State Design Has Been Helping Laundry Owners Thrive for More Than 50 Years
- New Member Spotlight: How Laundry Labs Plans to Change the Industry
- And More…
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Industry News
Girbau Mexico Names New General Manager
Girbau – headquartered in Vic, Spain – has appointed Ramiro Gordillo as general manager of the company’s subsidiary in Mexico. With this appointment, Girbau has strengthened its management team in Mexico to help drive its growth in the country and continue its...
Summit 2020: Literacy-Rich Spaces in Everyday Places
The LaundryCares Foundation, Too Small to Fail Host 3rd Annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit In mid-September, more than 870 laundromat owners, librarians, educators and philanthropists came together for the 3rd annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit, a three-day virtual...
CLA Survey: Coin Shortage Continues to Plague Laundromats
The Coin Laundry Association recently solicited store-owner input on the current coin shortage, in an effort to gauge the size and scope of its impact on the industry. Among those who responded to the association’s survey, 65 percent of the laundry operators admitted...
Superior Laundry Names Regional Sales Manager
Superior Laundry Equipment Co., headquartered in New York City, recently named Justin Tucci regional sales manager for the company’s newly acquired territory of southern New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and select northern counties of Maryland. Tucci boasts...
CLA Offers New Healthcare Insurance Program
The Coin Laundry Association has teamed up with LIG Solutions – a division of Lighthouse Insurance Group – to offer CLA members, as well as their families and employees, access to exclusive healthcare insurance coverage. The offerings through this new agreement...
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The Laundry Doctor
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The Business Mind
10 Years….10 Lessons
Originally posted - May 06, 2013 I've been in the laundry business for the last 28 years, both as a distributor and a coin laundry owner. And, along the way, I've kept lists of the things I've learned. Some people collect stamps or coins or baseball cards. However, I...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Removing Ink Stains
Originally posted - Aug 30, 2012 At my small laundromat, I often have a problem with customers washing and drying their clothes with ballpoint pens in the pockets. This has created a major staining problem in my dryer drums. I have used rubbing alcohol and hair spray...
Viewpoint
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