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A $5 Billion Industry With Little Public Financial Data

Mar 29, 2026

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9 min read

A 6% Sales Drop Nobody Heard

Mar 22, 2026

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14 min read

$1 Saved vs. $4 Earned

Mar 15, 2026

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13 min read

New Software, Same Capacity

Mar 8, 2026

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8 min read

A Credit Card Swipe at Your Laundromat

Mar 1, 2026

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9 min read

38% Margin. No Podcast Invites.

Feb 22, 2026

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7 min read

Not Bad Enough to Fire

Feb 15, 2026

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8 min read

Nobody Spoke. The Laundromat Said Everything.

Feb 8, 2026

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10 min read

$11.75 Trillion. We Call This "Small."

Feb 1, 2026

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9 min read

8 Months In. Not Profitable Yet

Jan 25, 2026

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8 min read

Delegation Is a Misunderstanding

Jan 18, 2026

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9 min read

The Rules Are Different for You

Jan 11, 2026

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7 min read

Where Did Your Next Client Go?

Jan 4, 2026

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7 min read

The Year-End Email I Almost Didn't Send

Dec 28, 2025

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9 min read

You Can't Find Good People (Because They Can't Find You)

Dec 21, 2025

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9 min read

What Costco Knows About Your Laundromat

Dec 14, 2025

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9 min read

They Learned 70% of It By Watching You

Dec 7, 2025

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10 min read

Are You Building a Cheesecake Factory or a Chipotle?

Nov 30, 2025

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6 min read

62% Say It Works Best. Why Are You Investing Elsewhere?

Nov 23, 2025

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9 min read

Sears Tried This to Survive. It Killed Them Instead.

Nov 16, 2025

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13 min read

Have You Calculated What You're Paying in Processing Fees?

Nov 9, 2025

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9 min read

5,800 Operators + Hundreds of Startups = Problem

Nov 2, 2025

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9 min read

Bad Math Doesn't Get Better at Scale

Oct 26, 2025

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13 min read

I Was Wrong About Lawns and Laundry

Oct 19, 2025

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8 min read

Why 22 Locations Wasn't Enough (But Also Too Much)

Oct 12, 2025

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7 min read