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A Sense of Community
Originally posted - Dec 20, 2013 When the Tasty Baking Company (makers of the popular Tastykake line of snack foods) decided to relocate its production facility, the move opened up a 30-acre parcel of prime real estate in northern Philadelphia, where the company's...
A New Beginning
Originally posted - Jan 27, 2014 After years of unclogging other people's pipes as a licensed master plumber, Florida's Willy Gibson turned his attention to a completely different type of pipe, as the co-owner - along with his wife Margie - of a Pensacola-based smoke...
Second Time Around
Originally posted - Sep 24, 2013 Avenue Coin Laundry in Libertyville, Ill., opened its doors for the first time this past July. However, store owner Ron Parsons is hardly new to the self-service laundry industry. "In 1979, I bought a place called the Carousel Coin...
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You’re Not ‘Just a Laundromat’
Originally posted - Apr 24, 2013 By definition, branding is the process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumer's mind. Unfortunately, in the self-service laundry industry, this generally does not exist. It's something that's often...
From Average to Awesome
Originally posted - May 27, 2014 [This is the first in a two-part series on fine-tuning the wash-dry-fold process.] Back in his 1970s heyday, actor Burt Reynolds once referred to marriage as "the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done."...
Marketing a Rural Location
Originally posted - Sept issue/2012 Written By: Scott and Penny Williams Laundry Owners Share How They've Grown Their Business in a Small, Tourist Community Until recently, there was no laundromat in the town of Alton, N.H. If members of this 5,300-person community...
The Future of Laundry Is Here
Originally posted - Feb 14, 2014 Written By: Cathy Johnson The multi-family laundry room may not be the first place you think of as being "high-tech." However, new technology applications are transforming the laundry room experience for both residents and property...
One Good Turn Daily
Originally posted - Apr 04, 2012 Many of us – even the uninitiated – know the Boy Scout motto to "Be prepared." However, few, if any, probably know the Scout slogan, "Do a good turn daily." And, with the day-to-day grind of running an American self-service laundry (or...
Securing Financing
Originally posted - Apr 17, 2012 When starting a new business venture, the initial capital investment is one of the first preparatory measures an investor will need to research. Your research will lead you to a reputable equipment distributor who will want to know how...
Team Building
Originally posted - Jan 29, 2014 As gloomy national headlines continue to herald the huge numbers of unemployed, laundry owners are provided with a large pool from which to obtain prospective workers. If you're in need of an employee or two, there are many ways to get...
Keep the Change
Originally posted - Apr 27, 2012 Changer maintenance is extremely important for today's self-service laundries. Unfortunately, many laundry owners simply dump in the quarters, pull out the bills and never give a second thought to any routine maintenance of these...
The Anatomy of a 504 Loan
Originally posted - Oct 01, 2013 Growing up, did you ever have someone make you toe the line in a certain way and all you could do was gripe about it, and it was only later that you realized they were doing you a huge favor? That's how I feel about my local bank. They...
Taking a Systems Approach to Energy Efficiency
Originally posted - Mar 26, 2012 In recent years, energy efficiency has become a hot topic for the self-service laundry industry, and coin laundry owners now have more options than ever to reduce their energy consumption. What's more, most industry experts will agree...
Put Your Energy Costs in ‘Reverse’
Originally posted - Apr 11, 2014 Written By: Mustafa Oluwa If your business is located in an area where energy has been deregulated, identifying and locking in the lowest electricity and natural gas rates is, of course, the prudent thing to do. The benefits of energy...
From Average to awesome (Part 2)
Originally posted - Jun 20, 2014 [This is the second in a two-part series on fine-tuning the wash-dry-fold process.] In my previous article, our focus was three-fold: consistency, sorting and washing. This time, we will complete the wash-dry-fold process by targeting...
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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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The Laundry Project Holds Free Laundry Event in Iowa
The Laundry Project, a charitable organization based in Tampa, recently held a successful free laundry event at Wash-N-Dry laundromat in Des Moines, Iowa - paying for customers' laundry loads and even painting a mural on one of the store's exterior walls. "Laundry,...
Laundry Owners Warehouse Releases First Film of New Series
Laundry Owners Warehouse, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has released the first short film in a planned series, which will focus on brand building and generating brand awareness. The first film can now be seen exclusively at the company's website,...
Four Steps to Facebook Success
Now That You've Created a Facebook Page, Here Are the Four Foundations of Social Media Mastery By Bonnie Hanson [This is the second in a series of articles on how to market your laundry business through Facebook. The first article appeared in the September 2017 issue...
Huebsch Names Store Owner of the Quarter
Huebsch has named Adam Dixon the latest recipient of its Store Owner of the Quarter Award. Dixon, who decided he needed a career change, closed his chiropractic practice and built Duck River Laundry in Shelbyville, Tenn. "The laundry Adam opened is an example of the...
Illinois CLA Continues to Battle Chicago Water Tax; Ordinance Introduced
As reported here earlier, Chicago has begun implementing a large tax on city water. The first tax of 7.5 percent was put in place in March and will continue to climb over the next four years, until it reaches a rate of 30 percent. What's more, this doesn't take into...
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