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Remembering Those Who Have Served
By the time you read this Memorial Day will have passed, along with all the amazing displays of patriotism around the country.
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Business 4 Business Think Tank
Since Spring of 2016, Business 4 Business (B4B) has been an invaluable and free resource for business owners, independent business people and entrepreneurs.
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Poseidon To Showcase Wetcleaning System At Clean Show
At The Clean Show Poseidon Textile Care Systems will showcase the company’s highly programmable Poseidon Wetcleaning Machines...
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How I Got Here: Sammy Spera
John Leano interviews people in the industry. May 2019 he interviews Sammy Spera from Batson's Fine Laundry & Dry Cleaning in Los Angeles.
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Mistakes Made When Sending e-mails
It is amazing to me how often we communicate via e-mail. It has become one of the most commonly used communication tools.
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Acting Toney On The Counter Won’t Cut It
Why do our counter clerks (some, not all) try and act like the “in crowd” in their dress when our customers come in the door?
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The 80th Year of the Round Table of Launderers and Dry Cleaners Sharing Their Knowledge
17 Dry Cleaners From Around the Country Meet For the Round Table of Launderers & Dry Cleaners Group to Discuss Industry Topics...
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Environmental Forensics: Why Dry Cleaners Need to Know About It
In my role as President of an environmental consulting firm, I have the opportunity to meet new people and introduce our company to folks outside of the environmental industry
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Good Reads for Business
How do the leading executives whose names we know develop their ideas and innovate in their businesses? The answer can be found in...
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Never Stop Learning – Clean Show Edition
On the very first day of teaching me the craft and trade of dry cleaning, my mentor leaned over to me and gave me the best advice I’ve ever been given…
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Employee Theft Is On The Rise
According to data from the US Chamber of Commerce, 75% of employees have admitted to stealing from their employers at least once and 38% admit to stealing.
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DLI Clean 2019 Education Sessions
From new perspectives, technologies and diversifications, DLI’s Clean Show education sessions will help you make better-informed business decisions.
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Words From the Street
John Leano interviews owner of Faye's Laundry & Dry Cleaning in Layton, Utah
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The Clorox Company Announces Proposed Major Manufacturing Operation In Frederick County, Virginia
“The Clorox Company has been a valued employer and partner to Virginia for more than 25 years, and we are honored the company is looking to reinvest...
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Has Environmental Contamination Cracked Your Nest Egg?
At the threat of mixing metaphors right out of the gate, I’d like to start this article by referencing a fable we all know...
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The Importance Of Video Marketing
Advertising is a critical part of our industry. Over the years, we have used billboards, television, radio, direct mail and newspaper advertising to get the word out.
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Twenty Years and 500 Million Pounds of Clothes Later
GreenEarth Cleaning finding new ways to help Mother EarthOur planet’s oceans are filled with plastics large and small. Efforts to remove macro-plastic waste have begun and are highly visi
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Hats Are Coming Back, And How You Can Clean Them
You may remember I wrote an article on hats about 16 months ago. My passion for hats has not subsided. One of the few good things about...
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How Can You Tell If Social Media Is Working
I had an excellent question: ‘How can you tell if social media is working?’ I had to answer his question with another question: How do you define ‘working?’
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What Should Be In A Personnel File?
Over the years, I have spoken to hundreds of small business owners. I have been surprised how many of them do not have adequate personnel files for their employees. Some have an application, many do n
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A Conversation with Randall Kaplan of CollarCard
Randall Kaplan is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of CollarCard, LLC, a promotional products company.
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What Makes Cleaning Up Perc Spills So Expensive?
Environmental contamination is often associated with industrial sites and gas stations, but the dry cleaning solvent PCE is one of the more expensive..
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Rebalance 360: A Financial Investment Option
Financial Guidance
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How I Got Here: Taline Mazlemian
Mazlemian had recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design from the prestigious ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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Word Of Mouth And Reputation
Today, most folks don’t even know their next door neighbors, let alone talk to them on a regular basis. Many folks jump into their cars...
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How Clean is Clean Enough for an Environmental Cleanup?
Most of us have an example of how we’ve experienced this situation in the past, but when these types of decisions must be made in business...
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How To Get Your Invoices Paid Faster
The perennial concern is how one goes about collecting an unpaid invoice.
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Royaltone Acquired by LD Supply Company
LD Supply Company has acquired the Royaltone Dry Cleaning product line.
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Education Always Rules – Not Complacency
A lot of drycleaners and laundrymen/women are not taking advantage of education in our industry. As I see reported classes across the country...
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START
You’ve probably figured it out by now. Jon Acuff is one of my most favorite authors of all time. Several years ago....
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Edgerank: What Is It And Why It’s Important
Social Media is all about being social. Social, as in, cocktail party social, sit around the coffee shop social, it’s the endless banal conversations about everything...
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Work-Life Balance an Important Goal in 2019
It is a constant theme for each of us to figure out how to juggle the responsibilities of our jobs vs. the demands and joys of our personal lives.
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Fear, Hope and Determination: A Tale of Two Dry Cleaners
I’m thrilled to be launching a new series of The Environmental Corner this year. My predecessor and mentor, Steve Henshaw, has been a long-time contributor to the Cleaner and Launderer and has been advising our friends in the dry cleaning industry on environmental contamination and insurance matters for decades.
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SCCA Joins With SoCalGas For Successful Seminar
Michael Leeming of Parker Boiler arranged the evening in conjunction with Roger Williams, Industrial Instructor/Customer Service Training for the SoCalGas Company.
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How About House Rugs? Part 2
1920 New Versus Old Ideas in CleaningIf one general term could be applied to the manner of all cleaning up to the present, that term could well be “scattering”; for in all the various steps of s
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Customer Loyalty
In a service business, there are few things more valuable (or more rare) than customer loyalty. This loyalty must be earned...
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Long Tails and Search Intent
Like many of you, I come from the school of thought that supply and demand are pretty much the two main drivers of business…someone somewhere needs a product or service, and some business some place meets and provides that product or service
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America’s Best Cleaners Celebrates Sankosha’s 40th With A Tokyo Trip
America’s Best Cleaners (ABC) is globally renowned for a great many things in the dry cleaning industry, but one of the things they’re best known for is their unyielding focus on creating and main
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Finish
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done, New York Times best-selling author, public speaker, blogger and Tweeter, Jon Acuff addresses the stoppers that prevent many of us from finishing what we started.
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New ASTM International Proficiency Testing Program
The ASTM International has announced the addition of accreditation for the globally-recognized American Association for Laboratory Accreditation.
