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Liquid Assets: The Business of Water
A Look at the Factors That Impact Your Laundry's Rates Imagine Manhattan under almost 300 feet of water. Not water from a hurricane or a tsunami, but purified drinking water – 2.1 trillion gallons of it. That's the amount of water researchers estimate is lost each...
How Effective is Your Digital Marketing?
Laundry Owners Can Accurately Track Their ROI by Focusing on Brand Awareness, Customer Acquisition and Customer Retention Flush. Have you ever felt this happening to your marketing dollars? Where did they go? Many laundry owners are curious about investing more into...
Creating an Emotional Connection
Chicago-Area Owner Tom Benson Discusses the Customer-Focused Programs That Set His Business Apart from the Crowd Ten years ago, Tom Benson reopened the doors to his rebuilt and renovated laundry business, World's Largest Laundromat, after it had been destroyed by a...
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Dallas Laundry Partners with ‘Loads of Hope’ to Provide Free Laundry Services to Harvey Evacuees
Westmoreland Express Laundry Center - a Dallas-based vended laundry, owned by Ed Brown Distributors - recently provided free laundry services to Hurricane Harvey evacuees who were housed in shelters in Dallas. The laundromat worked with Proctor & Gamble's Tide...
Laundry Owners Warehouse Announces Film Series
Laundry Owners Warehouse has announced that it will produce a series of short films, to be created as a brand-building exercise. The films will feature Dexter Laundry equipment, as Laundry Owners Warehouse is a distributor of Dexter products in south Florida - and...
Aaxon Names ‘Laundry Aesthetic Award’ Winner
Aaxon Laundry Systems recently presented Philip Kodroff - owner of Laundromart in Hollywood, Fla. - with the distributor's "Laundry Aesthetic Award." The award is presented to Aaxon laundry-owner customers in recognition of their dedication toward operating...
Statewide Wraps Up Fall Laundry Improvement Expos
Statewide Laundry Equipment - with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami - recently finished its three-day series of Laundry Improvement Expos, beginning in Kissimmee, Fla., on September 19 at the Radisson Resort Orlando and concluding at Statewide's...
LaundryCares Foundation to Implement Free Laundry Day Events This Fall
The LaundryCares Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity of the Coin Laundry Association, plans to execute three Free Laundry Day events in October and November of 2017. Free Laundry Days are LaundryCares' flagship community affairs which provide members of the local community...
Wash with Wally: Cleaning Drain Lines and Lint Traps
Is there a chemical and/or preventive maintenance procedure that will keep our main drain line clean? Occasionally, we experience a backup of water, which seems to be due to a buildup of a black greasy residue within the line. Would you recommend a periodic flush of...
Detergent Solutions Hosts Service Seminar, Store Tour
Store owners and technicians from across lower Michigan recently attended a Dexter Laundry service seminar and toured a unique self-service laundry facility during an event hosted by distributor Detergent Solutions in the Detroit suburb of Utica. The two-part service...
Eastern Funding Gives Back with Habitat for Humanity Projects
Eastern Funding LLC recently joined forces with Habitat for Humanity New York City on projects to create affordable homes for families in need. On September 20-21, more than 50 Eastern Funding employees volunteered at Habitat for Humanity construction sites in Hollis,...
Putting Your Profits to Work
Some of Today's Top Owners Discuss the Ways They're Reinvesting in Their Growing Laundry OperationsAs the story goes, a teenaged Warren Buffett partnered with one of his friends to buy a used pinball machine for $25 – which the high school buddies promptly installed...
Rising from the Ashes
Alabama Laundry Owner Lends a Helping Hand to Local Nonprofit Recovering from a FireFor a couple of years now, Alabama laundry owner Ken Barrett has been donating unclaimed items from his three vended laundries to Community Enabler Developer, a nonprofit group based...
Business Bio: OLE Super Coin Laundry
Bruny Costantino and George Gautreaux OLE Super Coin Laundry Allentown, Pa.Before Getting into the Laundry Business…Costantino and Gautreaux also own several daycare operations, as well as additional retail businesses.Store OpeningMay 19, 2017Business HoursOLE Super...
Your Website Sucks!
Here Are 10 Reasons Why Your Laundry Business' Site Very Likely May Need Some Immediate AttentionIt's time for some tough love.Your website sucks. No… really. It really, really sucks!But that's OK, because it's fixable. You think famous artists, athletes or anyone...
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This Month's Issue
- Tech on the Rise: How Operators Are Using Innovation to Run Smarter, Faster Laundromats: From AI phone systems to real-time data tracking, operators and suppliers share how technology is reshaping the modern laundry business and what’s coming next.
- Business Profile: Delivering a Superior
Laundry Experience - Member Spotlight: Rick Rome –
Innovating Laundry, One Customer at a Time - Guest Column: How AI Changed Google Reviews (What Laundromat Owners Need to Know)
- And More…
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Industry News
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...
Fowler to Offer Touchless Mobile Payment
Fowler Laundry Solutions, headquartered in Union, N.J., has chosen mobile payment provider PayRange to upgrade the distributorship’s equipment with touchless payment via PayRange’s mobile app. Fowler is mobilizing to adapt to the new realities of doing business during...
HappyNest Launches Location in Daytona Beach
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Daytona Beach, Fla., market. “We have made a concerted effort to find the best partners on the east coast of Florida, and we continue that trend with our new partner, Mykal Tairu,” said HappyNest...
States Expand Worker Protection in the Wake of COVID-19 Outbreak
As legislatures return to governing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of their work will clearly change in response to a changing world. In terms of employment and labor policy, all levels of government have begun considering expansion of worker benefits...
CLEC Names Director of Operations for Dallas Location
Commercial and Coin Laundry Equipment Co., a factory-direct distributor of Alliance Laundry Systems equipment, has promoted Sam Husain to director of operations for its Dallas facility. Husain, who joined the CLEC team in 2018 as a regional sales manager, has since...
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The Laundry Doctor
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The Business Mind
Take a Chance
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 down." - Annie Dillard, American author and...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Keep Store Windows Unobstructed
Originally posted - Nov 21, 2014 I'm building a self-service laundry from the ground up, and I don't want to make any mistakes, even minor ones. My question pertains to my store's windows. Should I install stained glass or clear glass? I would strongly recommend that...
Viewpoint
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Digital Marketing
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