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“Never Stop Learning.” – Anonymous

Friday, May 4, 2012

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This is your Friday QuoteLesson Most college graduates think that once they’re done with college, they’re done learning. Not the case as you and I both know. It’s where the learning is just really beginning. Try to remember what you learned up until graduation from college (I didn’t graduate, so I have to remember up [...]

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Filling In Your Route With Customers

Friday, April 27, 2012

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What shape is your route in? Do you have 5% of the available households? Or better yet (and really good) 10%? Or do you have a “Micky Mouse” route? A route that two in this track of 1000 houses and one way over 2 miles down the street? If you’ve got one of these, it’s [...]

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Groupon: Yes or No For Dry Cleaners

Monday, February 20, 2012

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 Is Groupon a smart way to advertise your dry cleaning pick-up and delivery business? I have the benefit of my membership trying Groupon and giving me their feedback. Some were good, most were not. BUT, I will outline the perfect situation to give Groupon a try under YOUR strict guidelines. First of all, if you’re [...]

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“The Riskiest Thing Is To Take No Risks!”

Saturday, February 11, 2012

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This is the Friday QuoteLesson. If you’d like a quote delivered every day and on Friday one of these QuoteLessons, go to FamousLifeQuotes.org and get signed up. This is my pet project. I’ve seen this authored by many in one form or another, so I don’t have an author. The Facebook guy has this plastered [...]

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Are You Doing Business With The Right Kind Of Customer

Friday, January 13, 2012

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This was posted by member Kris Anderson in our membership forum. It’s a very important message I think you should pay close attention to. (Firstly I like to say thank you to all the great people who enjoy reading my blogs. Greg Colosi teaches us that we should all keep a “Success Journal”, I guess [...]

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Do You Have A Big Bold Guarantee?

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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If Not, You’re Letting New Customers Slip Through Your Hands That’s right. You are letting sales slip through your hands if you don’t have a big, bold guarantee. You should be guaranteeing everything you do. And I don’t mean the… “I-Guarantee-My-Work-Guarantee,” either. That’s what most every dry cleaning business does. It’s so over used and [...]

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Google Places: How To Get 16 Postive Reviews

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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This post was written by member David Whitehurst. It talks about how to get positive reviews with Google, Yelp, and the other review sites. Take his advice and get some reviews fast. I mailed my monthly newsletter last Saturday with a request for customers to review my business on Google, Yelp and Angie’s List. As [...]

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Dry Cleaners: Simple Ideas For Your Website

Friday, December 31, 2010

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Watch this video of a Google engineer as he explains some simple things you can do with your website. Happy New Year!!

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Your Personal Credo

Thursday, December 23, 2010

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What is your personal credo? What do you stand for? What set of rules do you live by? Here is 15 of a 100 of my “Personal Credo” statements: I agree to the following CREDO for my beliefs: 1)     I never make excuses. It’s my fault, good or bad. 2)     I constantly strive to increase [...]

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Is Your Head Screwed On Straight? Mine Wasn’t! What Can You Do If It’s Not?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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It’s not easy being a dry cleaning business owner today. The economy sucks. Your employee’s are wieners’ and complain all the time. Your customers aren’t always happy. And with all of this, you are expected to put on a smiling face for all—all of the time. First of all, congratulations on being a business owner. [...]

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