PlanetLaundry Podcast
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How’s Business?
Owners Discuss the Current State of Their Laundry Operations, While Sharing the Specific Indicators They Use to Gauge Success The small-business half of the economy seems to have clawed its way back to a somewhat normal level of economic activity. According to the...
You Become Part of the Fabric of the Community
Philadelphia Laundry Owners Are Changing Lives in the Neighborhoods They Serve The Laundry Café is the creative vision of owners Brian Holland and Tyrone Akins – two former Big Pharma executives who grew up in the inner city and share a commitment of providing an...
Get the Conversation Started
3 Customer-Engagement Tips Designed to Boost Your Store's Digital Marketing Success Economies rise and fall – and, thus, businesses have to weather the good and the bad. At this point, the most recent economic downturn is a few years behind us, but that period brought...
Headlines
Springboard Celebrates First Year, Announces Upcoming Software Update
Springboard, a cloud-based software management platform for laundry owners, is celebrating its first year in business. Since the company's launch in January 2017, Springboard has licensed its software to more than 60 store owners in 23 states. "The feedback and growth...
Remember Excellence in Ojai?
Two years ago, nearly 200 of the nation's leading laundry owners and industry executives joined their peers for two days of networking and progressive educational sessions – all set amidst the tranquil beauty of Ojai, Calif. On May 18, 2016, Coin Laundry Association...
Rental Market Report: Number of Renters Drops in 2017, But Overall Changes in the Rental Landscape Remain
For more than a decade, the number of American households that rent has expanded year after year, sometimes by more than a million renters annually. However, last year, the explosion of renters in the wake of the foreclosure crisis began to fade - for the first time...
Building on Past Success… Exceeding Our Potential
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2018!I consider it an honor and a privilege to be serving as the Chairman of the Board for the Coin Laundry Association this year. Last year was historic for the CLA, as last year's chairman, Jim Whitmore, oversaw the introduction of new...
Wash with Wally: Bleach Spots, Motor Oil Stains…
A few of my drop-off customers are complaining about small bleach spots on their clothes. However, we don't even use bleach on their clothes, nor do we place the garments where bleach could be splashed on them. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the bleach is...
WashClub Offers ‘White Label’ Software with No Upfront Costs
On-demand laundry and drycleaning service provider WashClub has announced that it will license WashClubTrak - the company's pickup and delivery software in the U.S. - to vended laundry and drycleaning operators at no upfront cost. This will enable store owners to have...
Is It Time to Retool?
Ensuring You Reap the Rewards of Your Laundry's Recent Refresh[This is the third of a three-part series examining the key factors to consider when retooling a self-service laundry.]All of the homework is done. You have selected the best distributor partner and...
Collection Day
Laundry Owners Share Their Payment Options – Along with Their Subsequent Collection Procedures and StrategiesWithout a doubt, it's one of the first and probably most common pieces of advice a newcomer to the vended laundry industry will receive:"This business isn't...
Making Connections, Part 3
The Basics of Setting Up a Secure, Successful Wireless Network at Your Laundry Business[This is the third in a series of articles written to offer helpful suggestions about where to begin and how to better manage an existing or planned Wi-Fi network. Among the topics...
Kaizen: Get Better at Getting Better
Improve Productivity by Embracing This Japanese PhilosophyYears ago, my good friend and fellow store owner Paul Pettefer and I began work on an employee manual. We wanted to create the best possible set of processes and procedures for our businesses and staff...
Statewide Laundry Equipment to Hold Spring Road Shows
Statewide Laundry Equipment – with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami – recently announced it will be hosting its annual spring road shows in March this year, with stops in central and south Florida throughout the month.This series of free events will...
Minimum Wage on the Rise Across the Country
As of New Year's Day, several minimum-wage employees across the U.S. automatically received a raise in pay. In fact, on January 1, 2018, lawmakers in 18 states and 20 localities upped the minimum wage. At the stroke of midnight this past New Year's Eve, the following...
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This Month's Issue
- Fast Forward: Industry Insiders Review the Past Year – And Unveil the Key Factors That Likely Will Shape the Laundromat Business in 2025
- Business Profile: The Community-Driven Mission Behind Wash Bar Laundromats
- Company Close-Up: Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales Sets the Standard for Industry Excellence and Innovation
- Women in Vended Laundry: An Interview with Samantha Peters of Advanced Laundry Systems
- And More…
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Industry News
Clean 2019 Listed Among Top Trade Shows
Trade Show News Network, which covers the latest news and trends in the trade show industry, has ranked the Clean Show at No. 83 in its listing of Top 250 Trade Shows of 2019. The annual list is based on net square feet of paid exhibit space. Clean 2019 in New Orleans...
Speed Queen Opens 700th Branded Laundry
Speed Queen recently reached a milestone by opening its 700th branded laundromat, with the launch of its new store in Orbassano, Italy. “New investors and entrepreneurs continue to leverage the brand equity and our proven business model of Speed Queen-branded...
HappyNest Launches Chicago Location
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Chicago market. “Having made good inroads along the East Coast and continuing to grow that market, we also want to find the best operators in the Midwest region, and Atukwe Newell and the Bubbleland...
ESD, PayRange Partner on Mobile Payment
PayRange Inc. recently announced a new partnership with long-time laundry payments technology company ESD, which has approximately 2 million card readers in the field and estimates its active user base at 20 million consumers who use those machines on a regular basis....
Laundromats Are Essential
CLA Releases New Video Highlighting Industry’s Response to the Challenge of COVID-19 The laundromat industry, led by owners and their employees, has stepped up to the challenge of the COVID-19 crisis by increasing disinfecting procedures and applying new approaches...
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The Business Mind
Spin Some New Webs
Originally posted - May 12, 2014 Isn't the internet amazing? Just think about it - from your computer or mobile device, you have the ability to explore the world and, along with it, a world of knowledge. It's virtually limitless in terms of the subjects you can...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Battling Smoke Odors
Originally posted - Dec 28, 2012 I have a wash-dry-fold customer who is a very heavy smoker. In the winter, it seems that the clothes he brings in are at their worst; even the plastic hamper he brings them in reeks of smoke. I have tried an odor-reducing fabric...
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