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Perry Creek Laundromat
Jeff and Annette Freking Perry Creek Laundromat Sioux City, Iowa Before Getting into the Laundry Business... Jeff continues to crop farm and also owns several rental properties. Annette worked as an RN at a local hospital for many years, but has just recently left the...
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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...
Toughen Up!
Originally posted - Jun 27, 2014 I once read that "the ability to find energy and power from what we can't know or control provides an immense competitive advantage." Of course, as self-service laundry owners, we can only know so much about our businesses, the...
The Cost of Being Wrong
Originally posted - May 29, 2012 A fellow hands me a bag containing six marbles - five of the marbles of white and one is black - and he asks me to blindly draw a marble from the bag. If it's white, he says he'll pay me $20; however, if the marble is black, I must pay...
Stay Tuned
Originally posted - Jan 03, 2013 In a recent column, I discussed a relatively new field called neuromarketing, which combines neuroscience and marketing strategies, and is creating off-the-charts excitement and credibility in several business sectors around the world....
At Your Service
Originally posted - Jun 03, 2014 Last time, I discussed some of the questions you should ask your wash-dry-fold customers in order to best process their laundry. In this article, I'd like to take that customer service topic a bit further and talk about training your...
Grease is the Word
Originally posted - Mar 07, 2014 During a recent webinar I conducted for the Coin Laundry Association, one of the questions that came up from several of the attendees was how to handle tough kitchen grease stains – either in a residential wash-dry-fold load or a...
Warming Up to Cold Calls
Originally posted - May 04, 2012 If you're serious about growing the commercial accounts segment of your laundry business, you can't avoid it - eventually, you're going to have to make cold calls on potential clients. Some laundry owners have their drivers handle...
For Rent…
Originally posted - July issue/2012 An Interview with National Apartment Association CEO Douglas Culkin As a self-service laundry owner, your stiffest competition is likely coming from that nearby multi-unit apartment building, which instead should be supplying you...
Fire and Water Restoration
Originally posted - Sep 12, 2012 I get calls from laundry owners all across the country about how to handle garments that either have been through fires or damaged by flooding. And, personally, I've done a good deal of work with a number of fire and water restoration...
The Doctor’s Diagnoses
Originally posted - Dec 27, 2013 I recently conducted a webinar for the Coin Laundry Association, dealing with commercial stain removal. After my presentation, I received a number of great questions from the attendees, so I thought I would share of few of them here...
Control Your Own Destiny
Originally posted - Oct 08, 2013 In last month's column, I wrote about the five biggest mistakes you can make when running your drop-off laundry business. One of the pitfalls I warned against was letting your employees work for themselves – essentially allowing your...
After Disaster Strikes
Originally posted - Oct 05, 2012 Previously, we looked at how fire and water garment restoration can be a profitable niche for some coin laundry owners – as well as how to potentially land this type of work. Now, let's assume that the restoration business has started...
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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
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Innovating Laundry, One Customer at a Time - Guest Column: How AI Changed Google Reviews (What Laundromat Owners Need to Know)
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Industry News
Alliance to Discontinue Sales of IPSO Equipment in U.S., Canada
Alliance Laundry Systems has announced that it will discontinue sales and marketing of IPSO-branded laundry equipment in the United States and Canada, beginning in April 2018. The move will not impact sales of the brand outside of the United States and Canada. "This...
Dexter Salutes Laundry Pro of Florida with Top Honor
Dexter Laundry recently recognized Western State Design at the manufacturer’s annual conference and awards ceremony, which was held earlier this year in Rome, Italy. The California-based distributor received top honors for its prior-year sales performance. In all, the...
Laundry Owners Warehouse Donates Washer to Pet Rescue Group
The number of abandoned pets in the U.S. is on the rise, and one organization working diligently to provide safe homes for these discarded pets is Abandoned Pet Rescue. Recently, Florida-based distributor Laundry Owners Warehouse donated a Dexter 200G Express Washer...
LaundryCares Foundation Hosting Free Laundry Day in Las Vegas to Kickoff Clean ’17
On June 4, 2017 LaundryCares Foundation will host a Free Laundry Day event in Las Vegas, NV from 9 AM until 1 PM. The event will take place at Las Vegas Coin Laundry #6 located at 1200 W Owens Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89106. LaundryCares invites all to join in for a day of...
WASH Laundry Wins Microsoft ‘Visionary’ Award
California-Based Multi-Family Laundry Service Provider Recognized in Business Insights Category At Convergence 2015, Microsoft Corp.’s premier event for the business community, WASH Laundry was selected as a Visionary Award winner in the Business Insights category....
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