PlanetLaundry Podcast
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Building Your Dream Laundromat
What to Consider When Constructing Your First Laundry Business The key to getting through the buildout or construction phase of your vended laundry project can be quite simple. Just hire an experienced, licensed general contractor who already has a couple of...
Buyer Beware
Eight Best Practices to Follow When Buying a Property As the old saying goes, "Let the buyer beware." And never are those words more accurate then when purchasing a property to be used for a vended laundry business – whether you're looking to buy an existing store or...
Before Signing Your Laundry Lease…
Sitting Down to the Negotiation Table for the First Time? Here’s What You Need to Know First things first… with respect to your laundry lease, the best advice I can offer is be sure you have an experienced commercial real estate attorney by your side to help navigate...
Headlines
Shifting Expectations of ‘Laundry Day’
Drycleaners Raise Awareness of Wash-Dry-Fold Services One of the biggest potential opportunities for store owners offering full-service laundry programs in the current and post-COVID-19 world is – and will be – the heightened awareness of outsourced laundry. Much of...
GNA Partners with Commercial Laundries of West Florida
Girbau North America has partnered with Commercial Laundries of West Florida Inc., a full-service laundry equipment distributor in Tampa, Fla. As a result, Commercial Laundries now provides Continental Girbau vended laundry equipment and Express Laundry Center turnkey...
HappyNest Launches New Location in Houston
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Houston market. “HappyNest has made great strides in launching partners east of the Mississippi, and we were ready to move west and Houston is a prime market for our service,” said HappyNest founder...
Wash with Wally: Preventing Dryer Fires
I own three self-service laundries, and I’ve been plagued with dryer fires. I have the ductwork cleaned every three years. What can I do to prevent these fires? What am I missing? One of the problems I notice in a lot of laundries is that the ductwork has been...
Looking Forward by Looking Back
Why Marketing Your Laundry Business is Only Going to Get Better The world has changed quite a bit over the last three decades. Heck, it has changed a lot just in 2020 alone. But let’s not go into that here. If you were to take a time machine back to 1990, you wouldn’t...
Early-Learning Advocates, Business Leaders to Convene at LaundryCares Literacy Summit
The LaundryCares Foundation and Too Small to Fail, the early childhood initiative of the Clinton Foundation, will kick off the 3rd annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit on September 15. This year’s virtual summit will take part in three sessions that will explore the...
CSC ServiceWorks Names New C-Level Executives
CSC ServiceWorks Inc. – a provider of commercial laundry solutions and air vending services, headquartered in Plainview, N.Y. – has announced that Lonny Warner has joined the organization’s executive leadership team as chief operating officer. In this position, Warner...
Trends Shaping the ‘New Normal’
A Look at Tomorrow’s Laundromat Industry Veteran store owner John Henderson is not normally at a loss for words, especially when it comes to talking about the laundromat industry – one in which his family-operated chain has thrived for many years. But, then again,...
The Business of Vacation
Could Vacation Rental Laundry Be a Profitable Niche for Your Operation? While on vacation with my parents as kid and then later as a teen, I would, on occasion, look around me and take notice of all the various people who were involved in our “vacation experience” –...
The Formula for Powerful Advertising
Don’t Overlook the Impact of Human Psychology on the Success of Your Promotional Campaigns I’m a firm believer that advertising is simply applied psychology using print, television, radio or any other media platform the advertiser so chooses. Given that, it stands to...
WaveMAX Laundry Expands Footprint in Phoenix Market
WaveMAX Laundry, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., recently announced that it has signed agreements to bring two new locations to the Arizona cities of Scottsdale and Mesa by the first quarter of next year. In addition, the company – which has already opened three...
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 10: The Business of Vacation
In this episode laundromat owner Daniel Sofranko, who operates Perfect Wash Express Laundry Center in Huntington Beach, Calif., discusses how he has leveraged the booming tourism industry of his beachfront marketplace to create a successful and profitable niche for...
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This Month's Issue
- Metrics That Matter: Profit, Performance, and Planning in Vended Laundry
- Women In Laundry: Haley Gould Finds Perfect Fit
- Company Close-Up: Company Founded to Help Small Businesses Shines
- New Member Spotlight: How Robotics Could Change Laundromat Industry
- And More…
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Industry News
Mint Continues to Encourage the Public to ‘Get Coins Moving’
The United States Mint continues to ask the public for its help in getting coins moving – through the use of exact change when making purchases or by turning them in for cash at coin-recycling kiosks. You also may be able to redeem coins for cash at financial...
Whirlpool Receives Manufacturing Leadership Awards
Whirlpool Corp. has been recognized as a winner in the 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Awards for its outstanding achievement in the categories of Operational Excellence and Enterprise Integration and Technology. This recognition was given for the company’s Project...
PayRange App Adds New Funding Sources
PayRange Inc. – a mobile payment company for automated retail, including laundromats – has added capabilities to accept store gift cards and cryptocurrencies through its app. In addition, the company is offering select users the ability to “buy now and pay later”...
HappyNest Expands Footprint in Missouri
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest is now available in Jefferson City, Mo., through its new laundromat partner, Capital Laundry. HappyNest offerings are available to residents and businesses in select areas in Cole, Boone and Callaway Counties. “With...
Aaxon Hosts Coffee Event for Staff
Aaxon Laundry Systems recently organized a coffee event for team members. This successful event took place at the company’s headquarters, in collaboration with one of Florida’s most popular mobile cafés – Cool Beans Espresso Café on Wheels. In addition, virtual coffee...
FROM YOUR FAVORITE INDUSTRY EXPERTS
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The Laundry Doctor
Tiering Up
Originally posted - Aug 02, 2013 Over the last decade, every major manufacturer has introduced the ability to offer multiple pricing levels on their washers. For the most part, this technological development has been driven by the demand of self-service laundry owners...
The Business Mind
Fine-Tune Your Message
Five Psychological Insights That Can Help You Dramatically Improve Your Advertising and Marketing "Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind" – Leo Burnett, advertising pioneer Warning: This article will encourage you to want to "disturb the...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Vetting a Laundry Purchase, Eliminating Rinse Cycles and More…
The price of water in my area is ridiculously high and still rising. My washers are set to offer a pre-wash, a wash and three rinses. But I’m thinking of eliminating either the pre-wash or one of the rinse cycles. What do you think? My first thought would be to...
Viewpoint
The More People …. The More Dirty Clothes
"Demography is destiny." - William H. Frey, author of "Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Re-making America" In the midst of the New Year's Eve hoopla, I came across a tweet in my Twitter timeline from the U.S. Census Bureau. The message exalted the...
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