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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 27, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 20, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 11, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 13, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 18, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 31, 2010
Watch this video of a Google engineer as he explains some simple things you can do with your website. Happy New Year!!
Continue reading...Thursday, December 23, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 16, 2010
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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