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Get Sales Out of Your Online Marketing Setup
Six Steps to Properly Setting Up Your Sales FunnelWhen laundry owners contact me about increasing their wash-dry-fold businesses, converting more foot traffic or getting their pickup services off the ground, one of the first things I look at is whether or not their...
Get Sales Out of Your Online Marketing Setup
Six Steps to Properly Setting Up Your Sales FunnelWhen laundry owners contact me about increasing their wash-dry-fold businesses, converting more foot traffic or getting their pickup services off the ground, one of the first things I look at is whether or not their...
Business Bio: McPherson Express Laundry Center
Todd and Debra Whitehill Evan Whitehill Tom Aumiller McPherson Express Laundry Center McPherson, Kan. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Todd and Evan Whitehill also own an independent insurance agency. Tom Aumiller is a facilities manager. And Debra...
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Is 2019 the Year You Finally Become a Laundry Owner?
If Operating Your Own Vended Laundry Business is Your New Year’s Resolution, Read This First On New Year’s Day, I know two things to be true. First, throngs of men and women from coast to coast will become members of their local fitness clubs or big-box gyms, which...
Wash With Wally: Assessing the Value of Your Laundry Business
I have been in the vended laundry business for more than 30 years, and I’m now ready to retire. My question is how to establish a fair selling price. I own the building and the business. How do I value each? The first step is to get a bank appraisal on your property....
Better Living Through Science
Four Research Findings Sure to Benefit You and Your Laundry Business With an advanced degree in clinical psychology and being a member of the American Psychological Association, I am a regular reader of a number of technical journals in the field. Not surprisingly,...
Knowledge Is King
Another year has come and gone faster than I could have imagined. Many times, I think about my mother, who is in her 90s, talking about how “time flies by so fast" that she couldn’t imagine how it could ever get any faster the next year – but that it always does. What...
Up Close: An Interview with the Blue Kangaroo’s Neil Polifka
Business is Hopping: An Exclusive Chat with Neil Polifka, Vice President of Marketing and Store Development for The Blue Kangaroo Chain Whit Hughes established the Hughes Equipment Co. in 1958. He was one of the industry’s earliest coin laundry distributors. And, for...
Marketing Trends to Adopt in 2019
These Four Growing Technologies and Promotional Methods Deserve Your Attention The marketing industry is relentless, and it likes to think big. Every year, new technologies and marketing methods emerge that seek to make it easier for businesses like yours win new...
Protecting Your Assets
Critical Insurance Coverage and Considerations for Today’s Laundry Owners [This is the first in an ongoing series of articles covering business insurance issues for vended laundry owners.] Insurance. Ugh! Who really wants to think about it? After all,...
Laundry Land Hosts Free Laundry Event in Virginia Beach
More than 1,000 pounds of clothes and linens were recently washed and dried at no charge at the Laundry Land laundromat in the Aragona Village Shopping Center in Virginia Beach, Va. On October 23, Laundry Land hosted a LaundryCares-sponsored free laundry day, which...
TLC Tri-State Laundry Hires Industry Veteran Art Roy
TLC Tri-State Laundry Companies, based in Valdosta, Ga., has hired industry veteran Art Roy, who will represent that company's Vended Laundry Division throughout the state of North Carolina. Originally from Cleveland, Roy began his career by selling laundry and ware...
Clean 2019 Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for Clean 2019, which will be held on June 20-23 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.The Clean Show is the world's largest exhibition of equipment, products and services for commercial laundry, drycleaning and textile...
TLC Tri-State Opens New Distribution Facility
TLC Tri-State Laundry Companies has opened a new, state-of-the-art, 101,000-square-foot distribution facility in Valdosta, Ga. The company recently moved from its previous headquarters in Waycross, Ga., which had occupied a series of smaller buildings totaling...
Aaxon Holds Successful Autumn Expo
Aaxon Laundry Systems, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently hosted its 2018 Aaxon Autumn Expo, which drew laundry owners from across the state. Representatives from Huebsch – including Senior Regional Sales Manager Jason Fleck – presented the manufacturer's newest...
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This Month's Issue
- The Power of Promotions: Unleashing Creative Tactics to Keep Your Business Buzzing
- Digital Marketing: Six Strategies to Help Boost Your Business Without Breaking the Bank
- Business Profile: Modern Design and a Strong Community Focus Define New Jersey’s Bubbles Are Us Laundromats
- Industry Education: CLA’s WDF Workshop Enjoys Record Attendance in Nashville
- And More…
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Industry News
Clean Laundry Brand Announces Upcoming Store Openings
Clean Laundry – a licensed laundromat brand and concept – recently announced the addition of new locations in Texas, Arizona and Wisconsin. The brand, which is a business unit of Clickstop Inc., has reported two stores opening soon in Austin, Texas. In addition, the...
HappyNest Appoints Customer Experience Director
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest – headquartered in East Greenwich, R.I. – has named Kyle Ricci its new director of customer experience. Most recently, Ricci served as manager of customer success at Upserve, a restaurant customer management platform based...
SLE Announces ‘Spring Blitz’ Events
Statewide Laundry Equipment has announced the dates for its Spring Blitz 2021, which will feature events in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The in-person events, which will adhere to all CDC guidelines, will take place in February and...
PayRange Among Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500
PayRange – a provider of mobile payment options for the laundromat business, as well as for vending, amusement and other small-ticket merchants – recently was ranked 83rd on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media,...
COVID Relief: What It Means for You and Your Business
President Trump has signed the $900 billion Consolidated Appropriations Act – or COVID-19 relief bill – which provides stimulus payments to eligible individuals, extended weekly unemployment benefits and more than $300 billion in aid for small business. This...
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The Laundry Doctor
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The Business Mind
Get Psyched Up!
Originally posted - Oct 04, 2013 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom" – Aristotle In my view, the only thing perpetually common to your laundry business is you. Customers come and go, attendants come and go, landlords come and go… even machines eventually...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Is It Time to Buy New Equipment?
Originally posted - Apr 05, 2012 I really need to purchase some new washers and dryers for my store. I'm constantly repairing the machines I have. In addition, the parts bills are killing me. However, because of the uncertain economy, I'm not sure what I should do....
Viewpoint
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Digital Marketing
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Our Strategic Corporate Allies support CLA’s mission through advocacy, education, and innovation to strengthen the industry, advance our members’ businesses, and prepare the next generation of laundry professionals for the future.
Interested in becoming a Strategic Corporate Ally of CLA? Contact President & CEO, Brian Wallace via email at Brian@coinlaundry.org or call (630) 491-0499.
