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All articles
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An Opportunity To Shine
We are in the best industry that really shines and stands out with customer service. Restaurants are a good measurement of food quality and it seems everyone eats out these days. However, unlike the d
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Reading Will Sharpen Your Management Skills
There are so many books and references out there that discuss how to manage your business. Well-known entrepreneurs or others write some by business experts. As a business owner, you should be reading
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Why Local Search Results Are So Important
Recently I witnessed first-hand the importance of being found whenever someone goes searching for services. A friend of mine lost her mother years ago, and just a few weeks ago, her father passed. Now
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On-Demand Laundry And Dry Cleaning Service WashClub Expands To Chicago
Full-service laundry and dry cleaning service enters first market in Midwest to bring quality and simplicity to Chicago residents and businesses for an improved customer experienceWashClub, a leadin
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Hiring Mistakes We Make Too Often
I hear people saying that it has become increasingly difficult to find good employees. With a large amount of candidates available, why is this? Are you looking in the wrong places? Are you hiring peo
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Drycleaning Franchisor Adds Franchise Development Executives
The Huntington Company, an international franchisor for industry-leading retail and restoration drycleaners, has added Steve Lajiness and Josh Titler to the team as franchise development executives.
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Let’s Talk About Prices
Price it is an important topic that one must come to grips with as our businesses’ success literally depends upon getting our price and making profits. We all have customers who are sensitive about
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Primus Laundry Equipment Makes North American Debut
Cutting-edge equipment now available to U.S. and Canadian marketsPrimus®, a globally recognized provider of innovative commercial laundry equipment, announced its products are now available to Nort
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Keep ‘Em Coming Sir!
Dear readers, I cannot think of a more pleasing event than to have you write me to express your continued support and joy from reading my column. This is my 24th year of writing monthly articles for m
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Golden State Laundry Systems to Host Open Houses
Golden State Laundry Systems (GSLS) will host open houses in October at its Rancho Dominguez location as well as its new facility in the San Francisco area.The distributor, which serves all of Calif
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Speed Queen Empowers Women With Donation To Nativity Shelter For Women
Company donates brand new washer and dryer and articles of clothing from MudderellaSpeed Queen® recently helped empower women and worked to end domestic abuse through a fundraising competition surr
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Is Your Facebook Content Being Seen?
Facebook is wonderful, Social media that is free to use, and everybody sees what you post. Or do they?If you are like most drycleaners, when you or someone else posts content to your timeline, you m
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Special Course Helps Attendees Drive Routes Properly
Sixteen attendees visited Richmond, Virginia, for a three-day course in route operations and systems at Puritan Cleaners. DLI along with James Peuster of The Route Pros lead the course, including a pl
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Commercial Laundry Safety Improvement Outpaces National Industrial Averages
National survey results show across-the-board reductions in injury and illness at commercial laundries, surpassing safety improvement rates in the overall private manufacturing industryTRSA, the
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How I Got Here: Bill Lucas
Current Position: Retired. Bill Lucas, 72, recently relocated to a retirement community in Georgetown, Texas. After a successful, colorful and storied 39-year career in the fast-paced world of dry cle
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DLI & NCA Escaping To The Caribbean This Winter
The Drycleaning & Laundry Institute and the National Cleaners Association are taking their annual Brainstorming & Five Star Conference to Secret's newest resort: Akumal Riviera Maya in Cancun,
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Harmony Cleaning System Live Demonstrations At Open House
Washex of California hosted its 2nd Open House at Bryan’s Cleaners in Pasadena, California demonstrating the Harmony Cleaning System by Yamamoto. A large crowd was in attendance to see the Harmony S
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Business Owner Or Business Operator?
Fortunately for our industry most owners are operators. They are there most every day and keep an eagle eye on their business. They did not train Junior to run it after a couple of months. They contin
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Is There Bullying In Your Workplace?
We are always hearing about bullying of children and young people in school and on social media. I was very surprised to find that workplace bullying is a growing problem in businesses today. Accordin
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What A Drycleaner Learned About Facebook, From ebay
After I sold my drycleaning shops, I moved into consulting with drycleaners. While building my consulting business, an opportunity arrived unexpectedly, I had found an opportunity to receive large amo
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The Fixed-Price Natural Gas Contract: How It Works
A number of alternative energy providers have an offering that distinguishes them from the incumbent energy utilities: fixed energy pricing for natural gas. A fixed-price natural gas plan is not so mu
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“Round Table” Business Organization Hosts 76th Annual Meeting
Nation’s Top Dry Cleaners Convene For Annual Idea ExchangeEach year, the Round Table of Launderers and Dry Cleaners convenes to learn about innovation in the industry, to address mutual concerns a
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Butler Named As The Green Garmento National Accounts Manager
Otis Butler, the National Sales Manager for HMC Solutions since 2009, has signed on as the National Accounts Manager for The Green Garmento.Along with his affable personality and sales skills, Butle
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Alarming Trends
The usual prescription for this malady: study, read, learn and plan for the future. Said in so many words by the late, great Stan Golomb. I miss Stan. He always knew the trends and he always prepared
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Commercial Laundry Safety Improvement Outpaces National Industrial Averages
National survey results show across-the-board reductions in injury and illness at commercial laundries, surpassing safety improvement rates in the overall private manufacturing industryTRSA, the
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Increasing Profits Is a Shoo-In With This Partnership
You have done it all. You put on your thinking cap and have come up with every possible method to add diversity to your dry cleaning business. Alterations, tailoring, household items, leather and clea
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How Did You get Into The Drycleaning industry?
Whenever I meet anyone in this fabricare industry, I always wonder how he or she started. I mean, do you ever hear a child say, “When I grow up, I want to be a dry cleaner? “ I would wager that yo
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American Green Ventures Hires McDaniel As Southwest Territory Sales Manager
American Green Ventures, (US) Inc. is pleased to announce that it has hired Donnie McDaniel as its new southwest territory sales manager for the revolutionary SpillFix® Industrial Organic Absorbent.
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ISSLA-Sponsored Bill Sails Through Both House of Iowa State Legislature
A bill sponsored by the Iowa Self-Service Laundry Association to repeal the existing sales tax on coin-operated laundry passed unanimously on June 3, 2015 in the Iowa Senate and is now on its way to G
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Introducing……. Darcy Moen
Is Social Media Right For You?When it comes to social media, there is no shortage of options for you to use. There is Ello, Instagram, Youtube, Vine, Twitter, Meerkat, Snapchat, Pinterest, and of co
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Lapels Dry Cleaning Announces Operational Improvements And New Technologies
For its commitment to green practices and more efficient operations, Lapels Dry Cleaning has earned its signature line as “The future of dry cleaning.” However, with its latest series of technolog
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Some Tips On How To Become A Better Manager
Mark Graban, Author and Creator of LeanBlog.org, found in his experience “Bad managers tell employees what to do, good managers explain why they need to do it, but great managers involve employees i
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NCA Texcare 2015 Trade Show And Exhibit
October 17th and 18th, 2015 Meadowlands Expo Center Secaucus, NJAs NCA’s plans get underway for its Biennial Texcare Cleaning & Laundry Trade Show and Exhibit on October17th and 18th 2015, S
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Gulf States Laundry Machinery Named Huebsch Distributor Of The Year
Huebsch®, an expert in commercial laundry efficiency, recently named Gulf States Laundry Machinery Company as 2014 Distributor of the Year.“We are honored to name Gulf States Laundry Machinery th
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Davis Packaging And Film Solutions Has Got You Covered
What Was One Of The Biggest Take Aways From Clean 2015? You Must Impress Your Customers With Best In Class PresentationDavis Packaging can take you from ugly, bulky, high cost baggage to professiona
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Survey Says: Majority Of Businesses, Consumers Prefer Uniforms
Two national surveys completed by TRSA, the leading global textile services trade association, have found the majority of both businesses and consumers prefer that employees wear uniforms. The primary
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Cleaner’s Supply Launches New eco2go™ Brand
A “Green” Lineup Of Eco-Friendly Packaging Products ForThe Dry Cleaning IndustryCleaner’s Supply, Inc., a leading distributor of products for the dry cleaning industry, announced the launch of
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Clothes And Trends
Though I am no expert on clothing styles like most women are, I have always been intrigued by different styles and the trends that come and go. Being the conservative western clothing dresser that I a
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Business Disaster Recovery Toolbox
Maybe this title caught your eye. What is a business disaster recovery toolbox? Why do I need one? You probably don’t think you need one because as most of us, you think, “it will never happen to
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Do Over
Scenario 1: The valued customer enters your dry cleaning establishment to retrieve his Brioni two-piece, double-breasted suit. (Yes, the double-breasted suit is back in style.) He clearly told your cu
