Tuesday, July 10, 2012

How To Set Up A Laundry Business In The Philippines

One of my dreams is to have a laundry shop of my own. Not only I see it as a profitable business venture but also a good avenue for my jobless relatives to finally get their muscles working. With this business I see that the greatest factor would be the location - preferrably somewhere in the university belt or near PUP. 

Good thing I bumped into this from busynessminded.blogspot.sg. It is my pleasure if you will read along with me.



1. A GOOD and FEASIBLE LOCATION.

All the business is actually investing on LOCATION. You have to strategize on where you would place your business. You can rent a small space which will serve as a pick-up point of clothes. Or you may opt to place your laundry shop near restaurants, motels, hotels, school, dormitories, apartments, condo units. You also have to target those new villages, subdivision, apartments, or condo units because you have no competition here. It's better if you are the only laundry shop in this area.


2. PREPARE BUSINESS LICENSES

Prepare your business licenses and work permit. You will be needing the following documents:
DTI registration (if you are a sole proprietorship), mayor's permit, BIR and Insurance (optional). You may ask what are the requirements for opening a business like this.


3. ATTEND SEMINAR.

You may attend the seminar being conducted by those who are experts on this. Actually they have tips and suggestions on how you can cut your costs, where to buy you supplies and equipments and even teach you how to make your own detergents and fabric softener. You may search from the web the various training center who conducts this kind of seminar.


4. RESEARCH ON LAUNDROMATS..

Decide if you want a fully automated Laundromat, or a partially automated one that includes additional services such as ironing and folding. There are a lot of laundromats out there to choose from. Don't look for 2nd hand machines as their useful life is already shortened. This laundromats are the core of your business. If these machines broke down then you have to spend a lot on repairs and maintenance.

5. FRANCHISE or INDEPENDENT?
Decide if you want to buy a franchise or be independent. If this is the first time you are embarking on a laundry business and do not have time for research, you may opt to choose to purchase a franchise. They will do all the work in setting up you laundry shop and all you have to do is pay them a franchise fee and find a nice location. Then after that, it's earning time!
But if you have all the time to put a laundry business, it's high time for you to be independent. The good side of this though is that you can decide whichever you want your laundry shop to operate.

6. MAKE A BUSINESS PLAN..
Every business should have a business plan. You have to set-up your marketing, accounting, delivery, quality control, and etc.

7. FINANCE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN.
This is the hardest part for some people because they don't have available capital on hand. If you don't have a capital to invest on a laundry business you may choose to borrow money from a bank or you may ask your friends to join you in your business venture.

8. ADVERTISE.
This the exciting part. You have to inform everyone that you are in the laundry business. You can put up a tarpuline, give flyers to everyone, you could have a promo on the first week of your operation, or you could have discounts on the first 20 customers. Just aim to inform everyone that you are on this business. Internet marketing is a good tool too as such you can actually have your facebook or other social networking sites as platform for your advertisement and marketing

9. MONITOR THE COSTS
You have to monitor the costs that is being incurred. You have to really think of ways on how you could cut down your costs like electricity, repairs and maintenance, administrative expenses and etc..

10. HANG OUT WITH OTHER BUSINESS MINDED PEOPLE.
Mingle with owners of existing Laundromats and ask problems that they encountered. Basically, you have to get advises from them. You may search other forums to know the updates on what's new on laundry shop business..

Hmmm. Very useful. Now I just need to find how much these items will cost me. See you around!


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5 comments:

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  2. hi you might wanna check my blog, i blog about laundry business here in the philippines.

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